Tiny Poppy Row

Tiny Poppy Row 3x5 watercolor miniature recently done from imagination of a field of red poppies COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Poppy Paradise

15x11 watercolor on Canson XL 140 lb cold press paper over pencil sketch done last month from my poppy photos; foreground is imaginary to show more of the plant stems and blooms. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Poppies for Veterans

3x6 watercolor and India ink on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary field of red poppies I started working on 11/11/22 Veterans Day, and finished today. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Barn Poppies

7.25x3.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper completed yesterday for last week's online challenge on WetCanvas; ref courtesy Clea. I have cropped the poppies into a vertical format in this country barn landscape to better focus on them. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Poppy Sprouts

8.5x5.5 watercolor and ink line in Masters sketchbook done last week. The sprouts were inked for InkTober2021 then I sketched the floral part and applied paint in this garden scene. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Red Poppy Royalty

12x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday over a light pencil sketch. I've added additional blooms that were not in the photo reference. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Poppy Pretense

15x5.5 watercolor and black India ink on Saunders 300 lb cold press paper done previously. With large splashes of quinacridone coral, transparent pyrrol orange, Grumbacher red, and alizarin crimson I made blobs that are pretending to be poppies with your imagination. Ink line delineates petals, blooms, and stems and I accidentally sloshed some of it onto the background so it cannot be removed. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

MARCH MADNESS

9x10.25 mixed media on paper done on a whim. Sketched with Micron 01 pen, I followed next with Montana acrylic markers on these imaginary poppies. Small areas and background are watercolor. Since we are having daily sandstorms here the brownish backdrop seemed appropriate. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

December Poppies

6x4 watercolor on Fabriano rough 140 lb cold press paper done last month, an imaginary floral garden scene of poppies swaying in the wind. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Yellow Watercan and Blooms

7.25x5.75 watercolor on Italia 140 lb CP paper done today, an imaginary garden scene complete with old rusty watering can or watercan filled with flowers such as poppies, etc.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Heirloom Poppies

8.5x5 alcohol inks on heavy stock paper done today.  Yesterday I started it by putting Cloudy Blue only on the background.  Today Sunshine Yellow was added, then three different reds for the poppies.  Centers are Mantilla Black and stems are Lettuce applied with a wooden chopstick.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Floral on Black

14x11 poured acrylics on black painted canvas done last week, no brush, no reference, just the paint and a palette knife.  I tried to make red poppies and a lily.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Memorial Day - Remembering Freedom is Not Free

Poppies signify those soldiers who fought and died for our freedom whether here at home during civil war, or abroad such as two world wars, and middle east conflicts. This is Flanders Fields that I painted while reviewing that poem by Lt. Col. John McCrae that says it all. This is watercolor 20x30 and is SOLD to our good friend and neighbor, Navy veteran Jim Murray.   Here are the words McCrae wrote:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

Blog post COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Poppy Pouf

7x5 alcohol inks on Yupo synthetic paper done yesterday, an exercise with reds and greens.  I used Poppyfield and Lemonade for the poppy bloom and Lettuce for the greenery.  Greens were applied with a drop of ink on a chopstick tip.
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Poppies Please

5x12 watercolor on gessoed matboard done last week using no references.  I wanted to paint a floral that was brightly colored and would look great in a horizontal format.  The background was left white.  Splatters were added when dry with a loaded brush.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

August Poppies

4x6 alcohol inks on professional photo paper done yesterday from imagination.  I'm on a floral kick now so everyone will see more of those being shown.  In the beginning this was more of an abstract but when red was added the poppy shapes emerged.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith

Poppy Desires

4x6 alcohol inks done yesterday using four colors plus green.  In this imaginary poppy bloom it actually appears to be more than one flower behind the orange red one.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 KaySmith.

Monday Poppies

5x6 alcohol inks on white foamcore board done last Monday using only a few colors of ink.  The two reds were going to be something else until I added a dark color called Eggplant at the bases of each.  Then they appeared to be more floral than fiery, especially when stems were put in using an old dry felt tip marker.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Red Poppies

22x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, drawn and painted from one of my poppy photos. These red ones and some pinks were growing across the street from our church a few years ago amongst many others. I particularly liked the low white fence behind them.  This work is SOLD.
Image Copyright Kay Smith.

Tall Red Poppies

8x5 watercolor and ink over collaged novel page done today as I was in the mood for poppies.  I've not painted them in awhile and don't need reference photos anymore as their forms are memorized.  With the long curved stems bending in the wind just imagine them growing in your garden or on your wall.  The paper page was adhered to sketchbook sheet then drawn with Micron 01 pen when dry., pa
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.