Holiday Hollyhocks

9x7 ink and watercolor in sketchbook done in late December. I used a Winsor Newton fine liner pen in sepia along with White Nights paints. Not holiday flowers for sure but they are a favorite. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Hollyhock Fence ~ painted rock

2.5x3 acrylics painted on a smooth rock done in July as part of an online landscape challenge. The rock was painted with gesso before sketching was done to provide a smooth surface. This miniature hollyhock garden is blooming for sure. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Hollyhock Heaven

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, painted wet into wet from some of my hollyhock photo refs. I first painted this back in 1999. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Hummer and Hollyhocks

8x8 watercolor using White Nights paints done on Saturday per customer request at our art tour. It is painted on Masters Touch Premium 140 lb paper using combination of three references including a previous black hollyhocks piece. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Lush Hollyhocks

5x7 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb cold press paper begun on our last day of the trip then finished here in studio. Using my own hollyhocks for reference these lush blooms can warm up even the coldest day. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Flower Fence ~ Happy Thanksgiving

6x4 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done recently and sold, an imaginary white picket fence I've done before with tall old fashioned hollyhocks behind it. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Sudderth Drive Hollyhocks

18x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper begun last paint in day this week, using one of my old photos of hollyhocks growing along Sudderth Drive in Ruidoso, NM. The old store has since closed but the hollyhocks are blooming in summer along the iron fence. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Hollyhock Garden Fence

8.5x5.5 watercolor on Masters sketchbook paper done last weekend from one of my hollyhock photos. Sometimes the plants are taller than the fence. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

White Fence Flowers

8.5x5.5 acrylics on 80 lb. paper, an imaginary garden scene done last week using an old white picket fence as the starting point and adding mostly multicolored hollyhocks behind it. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Mountain Arts Ruidoso

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders cold press paper, a cropped storefront scene I photographed years ago in Ruidoso, NM. This was painted wet in wet and has favorite hollyhocks in red, and the work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Adobe Walls

15×22 watercolor on Fabriano rough 140 lb cold press paper done last week using a combo of photos plus imagination. I added purple sage, hollyhocks, and yucca plants to the imaginary adobe abode painting wet into wet with a 1″ flat sable synthetic brush. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Hollyhock Shadows

8x8 watercolor on Masters Premium 140 lb cold press paper finished today, an imaginary scene of a white Adirondack chair backed by tall old fashioned hollyhocks. The garden flowers grow tall next to the white picket fence and cast their shadows upon the chair and pillow. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Black Hollyhock Towers

8.25x5.25 mixed media in junk journal done over the weekend. Media included collage across the top of the 1950's page, sketch of plants in multilead colored pencil, Brusho wc crystals in orange, and watercolor in this view of towering black hollyhocks. COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Studio Black Hollyhocks

28x20 watercolor on Lanaquarelle 140 lb hot press paper completed yesterday.  These black hollyhocks grew along the classroom side of my studio along with pink, red, and white ones.  Many colors went into the deep purple almost black hue:  Quinacridones violet and magenta, permanent rose, alizarin crimson, carbazole violet, indigo, UB, thalo green and blue, etc.  Since the blooms were transparent for the most part I used opaques for the background:  Periwinkle, Mint Julep, and Peachy Keen (American Journey).
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

White Cat and Potting Bench

22x15 watercolor of an imaginary gardening scene in which I put a white cat.  This has all the ingredients in a painting I love such as flowers, clay pots, annuals, watering cans, cats and tools.  Hollyhocks and geraniums have found their way into the composition as well.  It is painted on 140 lb cold press paper/Daniel Smith paints.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Foxgloves House Garden

22X15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Saunders paper, an imaginary foxgloves and assorted flowers house garden.  The house was from another photo taken in east Texas.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Tyler House

15x11 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, an earlier work from my east Texas photo.  I did take liberties with painting it as the photo was shot in January on a very cold day.  Hollyhocks and potted plants on porch were added to this charming white cottage with shutters.
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Sunny New Mexico Day

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over last weekend while in New Mexico.  The red tile roof of the house caught my eye; temp was 91 degrees and the sun beat down on the top of crepe myrtles, hollyhocks, and other plants.  Its gate was a faded red as well.  When dry I splattered periwinkle blue in the foreground.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Wheelbarrow Whispers

11x15 watercolor done today on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary garden scene except for my old wooden wheelbarrow.  Flowering geranium pots are inside it while towering hollyhocks, poppies, hibiscus, petunias, and marigolds surround it all.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Woven Studio Hollyhocks

15x22 watercolor on cold press 140 lb paper, made from weaving two almost identical images together into one piece.  These red and pink hollyhocks grow at my studio.  The first painting just did not work to my liking so another was done.  Cutting one into vertical strips and the other into horizontal strips, I carefull wove them.  This work is SOLD.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.