Beach Friends

4.5x6.75 watercolor on Bienfang 140 lb cold press paper painted today for an online challenge with WetCanvas.  I liked the greenish hue of the tide waters rolling in and the dark green hat the woman on the right was wearing.  A challenge for me was to make her white clothing show skin.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Laguna Beach

5.5x8 watercolor on Strathmore Visual Journal 140 lb cold press paper, a beach scene I painted last week in my hotel room while everyone else was in the bar or gambling.  I don't paint that many landscapes unless the area is interesting and familiar.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Shoreline Kitty Hawk NC

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb paper, done today BRUSH ONLY no pencil of the Kitty Hawk beach in North Carolina, a place that was magical.  I cropped out the waterfront houses and stretched out the shoreline in this vertical landscape, so appropriate to paint on a day of icy sleet and cold north wind.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2013.

Beach Bums

11x15 watercolor completed yesterday having begun in David Savellano's Dallas workshop on Nov.12-14.  With this scene, we had to only use 3 shapes:  Sky, land mass, sea and beach.  Figures were made with tiny bits of torn masking tape stuck to dry paper before pigments added.  All was done within 30 minutes, an imaginary scene that is calming to look at.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Green Around the Gills fish

22x30 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders hot press paper, an imaginary school of whimsical psycho fish.  Lately I have been painting water scenes, fish, flamingos, etc. so took out this older design and worked it some more.