From the Florist

15x11 watercolor watercolor on Canson XL 140 lb cold press done last month from my photos of florist flower images. I used Rosa paints for some of the quinacridone pinks and corals. These were wrapped in red paper probably for the Valentine part of February. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

My Birthday Flowers

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch premium 140 lb cold press paper. I did a side sketch of my large bouquet of flowers sent last month then painted it wet on dry. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Valentine's Day Gifts

8.5x11 mixed media on sketchbook paper recently painted using Micron 01 pen to sketch, Montana marker over stencils and paper doily, watercolor in this Valentine's Day still life of chocolates and roses. It is just waiting for the recipient to claim the sweet gifts. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Pam's Boot

28x22 acrylics on canvas, an imaginary boot bouquet commission recently done. I used several floral stencils for the patterns on the boot and various flowers such as the Texas bluebonnet, sunflowers, poppy, roses, and peony buds along with saguaro cactus and a feather. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Abandoned Farmhouse

11.5x17 watercolor on 140 lb. Saunders cold press, an imaginary scene using negative painting. The country farmhouse is from a photo of one I took in Colorado City years ago. Even though the house is abandoned the flowers still bloom and the grass grows. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Rose Petalura

9x12 watercolor and Brusho wc crystals on 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary abstract floral composed over a week ago. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Roses in Indigo Vase

4.5x4 watercolor done on Canson 140 lb cold press paper. After painting winter snow scenes this is more in line with my character. Using brush only, shapes of various colored roses were put in then each hue from pink to dark pink to orange. An abstract background completes the simple miniature still life. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Spring First Day

8x8 gouache on Italia Magnani 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday as it was the first day of spring equinox. With this imaginary grouping of roses, tulips, and irises one can imagine them blooming soon in the warmer temperatures. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Old Fashioned Love

7.5x7.5 watercolor,ink and collage elements on Crescent matboard done this afternoon at a paint out. I first placed a heart paper doily from the dollar store on the mat then outlined each space with a 0.3 STA Lictin pen in black. Next cut out rose images from gift wrap and a cocktail napkin and collaged on with glue stick. Center romantic couple was cut out from French toile paper. Next background was colored in using transparent watercolor using a #1 script liner brush; rose shapes began to appear so those were further developed by negative painting. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

More Pink Petals

9x5 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper drawn and painted today, another floral bouquet that I am hoping will hurry spring along. These imaginary blooms can be roses or ranunculus, take your pink, and are in a clear glass vase. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Flowers in Round Red Vase

4x6 mixed media on paper done today, an imaginary floral still life of acrylics over alcohol inks.  The ink version was too abstract so the flower idea was done with a mixed gray on right side for the background and left side is inks as is the red vase.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Wine and Roses

14.75 x 14.75 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Saunders paper, an imaginary rose bouquet with wine glasses ready.  The glasses were painted negatively in this romantic still life.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Rich Red Rose ACEO

3.5x2.5 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done recently, another art card edition original miniature from one of my own roses.  These minis are fun to do and don't use much or many supplies nor occupy much wall space if framed.

Actual size is below:

COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Studio

5x7.5 watercolor of my south studio wall bathed in sunlight that is caressing the roses and casting shadows.  Shutters are now painted green and window trim is pink.  This miniature is painted on 140 lb cold press Saunders paper.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2018.

Posies

8.5x5.5 India inks/Micron 01 pen on Bienfang for mixed media sketchbook begun yesterday and finished today.  These watermedia flowers could be poppies, roses, or tulips hence the posies title.  I only used blue, yellow and red inks and mixed the green using blue and yellow.  Not too bad for a 20 minute imaginary exercise.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Studio

5x7.5 watercolor on 140 lb Saunders paper done en plein air when I first planted roses at my studio south wall. I had a wooden cut out of three white ducks with a stake that is in front for garden art, then I lettered Roses on a wooden vent cover under the window.  The trim then was red with purple shutters and now is fuchsia pink trim with pale green shutters and a buttery cream painted stucco.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Candlelight Roses - completed WIP

Finally finished with the romantic still life over the weekend! The lace tablecloth and curtains gave me fits as did the many reflections in the silver candlesticks.  This was an exercise in using mixed grays to enhance pure color of the fresh roses.  Size is 15x11 watercolor on Strathmore (reverse side to allow more happy accidents).

Candlelight Roses work in progress (WIP)

This is grey ink sketch using 3-4 different colors done today using old silver candlestick and imaginary roses for a work in progress watercolor I'll post as I go.  I flipped the candlestick and drew it higher on the right side for balance, then added a red and black bowl as seen in the beginning image below.

15x11 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper and Daniel Smith paints, about 1.5 hours of work this afternoon during the pouring rain (thank you Lord, for the rain!) Stay tuned.  Another New Year's resolution for me was to resolve to paint more still life.  So this one is my 4th still life, and I have done even more but they are ink sketches that have not been shown.

Abstract Roses

15x22 mixed watermedia on Arches 140 lb cold press paper with wet in wet watercolors and gold spray paint.  Design element shapes were made with outlining round plates and using a ruler overlapping and darks laid in first under shapes to push them forward.  Cotton bandaging was pulled apart, then put over that, wet, then dropping various blues and reds.  When dry, spray paint was applied outside. I began to see rose shapes, petals and stems so enhanced what I saw adding and subtracting.  Its focal point thus contained the largest red rose shape.  Lastly, stamping was done with small circular rubber stamp at random.

The Original Flowers of Passion

Here it is the awful boring piece that was too blah! 15x22 watercolor. It was such fun to cut it up. As usual I got too detailed...