Patchwork Pricklies

Patchwork Pricklies 12x12 acrylic on wc paper done last month, another remake or rework of a painting I was not too fond of, to create something new and exciting. The original as seen below was in an online abstract class. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025 BEFORE

Cactus Glory

8.5x5.5 mixed media of Winsor Newton grey fineliner 0.3 pen, watercolor, colored pencils done last month in mixed media sketchbook. Another imaginary desert cactus and foliage scene up close. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Red Cactus Pears

11x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done last week using one of my older cactus patch photos that was first done in a sketchbook in 2018. I've done more negative painting in the background of imaginary shapes and colors. COPYRIGHT 2025 Kay Smith

Window Wall Cactus

10x8 acrylics on canvas done last week in anticipation of a WetCanvas acrylics challenge due today featuring a window. Including a few prickly pear cactus leaves at the bottom plus its surrounding shadows makes a nice composition. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Charming Cactus

8x5.25 watercolor desert landscape on Moleskine paper done the first day of August using White Nights paints, painting wet on dry, with this realistic grouping of prickly pear cactus pods. The blooms are always interesting to see and to paint. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Cactus Afternoon

6x6 watercolor and black India ink in Masters Touch sketchbook, 80 lb. paper done last week or so ago. This is another imaginary cactus landscape scene in my ongoing series of painting prickly pears. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Cactus Stack

6x6 mixed media in Masters Touch sketchbook done last weekend, another imaginary prickly pear cactus patch. I used white wax crayon and watercolor for this colorful country scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Prickly Pear Cactus Surprise

6x6 watercolor, India ink, and gel pen in Masters Touch sketchbook done a few days ago, a quick design to use up colors for a mixed black (Permanent Brown (Daniel Smith), phthalo green (Dick Blick), and Indanthrene blue (Holbein). When dry black ink dropper tip used to make scattered line marks for the prickly pear cactus pods and white gel pen for other marks such as thorns and spots. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Cactus Pads

2.5x3.5 mixed media art card on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done over the last week, a miniature prickly pear cactus pad using watercolor with White Nights paints and white gel pen for the thorns. The fruit from its pods is starting to open up. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Phoenix Pricklies

3.5x2.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Italia paper, an imaginary set of desert prickly pear cactus done in miniature. COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Pricklies

8x8 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper sketched and painted today from prickly pear cactus just down the road.  This year the southwest native plants have bloomed profusely.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith