Apples and Old Lace

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Saunders Waterford painted recently from a still life set up in my dining room. I used a ceramic bowl from Hobby Lobby, real apples, and a crocheted tablecloth. Background and other blue hues were made up to mimic the old fashioned theme. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Apple Buckets

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper. Foreground is layered with midtones and darks, different values and strokes of grasses, leaves, and twigs. More burnt sienna and quinacridone burnt orange added to shadow side of upright bucket with some splattering to indicate dings and dents. Also I widened the apple tree trunk on the right side and glazed the bark with quin burnt orange. Background leafy tree now has darker shadowed leaves on its left side. Distant tree line on far right was put in for depth, distance and balance. All in all am pleased with how this still life in a landscape turned out. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Red Bowl and Apples

8.25x9 watercolor, Brusho red crystals over ink line using Micron 01 pen in sketchbook done last week. Ref courtesy of another artist in our weekend drawing event on WetCanvas! in which participants have 2 hours to do a painting. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Fruity Kitty

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch premium paper, 140 lb cold press sketched yesterday and painted today for another online challenge. Participants on WetCanvas in the All Media Art Events forum for the weekly Drawing Event, have 2 hours to choose an image and paint it. This still life of a gray and white cat on a table took a little over the 2 hours and was so cute I could not resist. COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

August Apples

6x9 watercolor and ink on paper done week before last on vacation in New Mexico, a state that grows many apples that are evident even in August.  They are famous for their Hatch chiles and cherries and pistachios.  Drawn with Micron 01 pen, this illustrated journal art shows apple varieties Jazz, Gala, and Envy.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.