White and Red Hollyhocks

8.5x5.5 watercolor in mixed media sketchbook done from my own hollyhocks week before last. Always a joy to paint these tall, old fashioned flowers that seed themselves. Now I've planted some dark pink seeds and am hoping to see results next growing season. 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

Old House Garden

12x9 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb cold press paper sketched and painted last week; this old pale yellow clapboard house sets a nice background for the blooming alliums, larkspur, lilies, etc. for a summer scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

White and Pink Hollyhocks

12x6 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today using one of my studio hollyhock photos from a few years ago. These fragile thin petals of the white ones showed me many colors of pale pinks and lavender as well as blue. The darker value shadows as seen behind the blooms makes them all the more unique. An abstract background was put in rather than the old house next door shingles. 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