Backyard Shed

8.5x5.5 acrylics over watercolor in mixed media sketchbook done mid month. This is my view outside my studio backyard as seen from the door and window. There's an old palette, brush, and window frame nailed to its very old wall complete with peeling paint. This was a monthly challenge on WetCanvas to paint a view outside.

Farm Shed in Winter

8x8 watercolor on Grumbacher 140 lb cold press paper done last weekend using White Nights paints, another imaginary farm in winter landscape scene. Mostly I used raw sienna, burnt sienna, UB for a limited palette. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Old Farm Scene

11x17.5 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders cold press paper, an imaginary farm scene set in autumn before the first snow happens. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Old Mangerton Shed

11x14 watercolor of an old shed, photo courtesy WetCanvas RIL.  It is painted on 140 lb cold press paper.
Image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Gardener's Bike with Poppy Patch

9x6.5 watercolor, a daily painting, of an old garden shed and the worker's bike and basket.  Photo ref courtesy Susan (WetCanvas Weekend Drawing Event).  I edited lots of the photo out such as foreground, middle ground, paraphrenalia on the bike and clutter around the shed's entrance, and top right I added blue sky.  Foreground I added multicolored poppies.  This was done within the 2 hour time limit of the WDE contest.

Old Shed

11x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Saunders painted wet on wet and wet on dry.  It's an old English structure called the Mangerton
shed done awhile back as part of one of the WetCanvas contests.

Old O'Donnell Shack

15x22 wet in wet watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper of this old rundown abandoned shack.  It sits by highway 87 in O'Donnell, TX and I have painted its weary boards before but never tire of giving it one more life in the west Texas landscape. What was odd was the gigantic yucca at the corner rising tall as if to guard its former home from strangers and artists with cameras.