Pink Desert Saguaro

15x5.5 watercolor on Blick 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary pink desert scene done a couple of weeks ago while on a trip out of state. The pink tones of the sand echoes throughout the sky and other desert landscape parts such as vegetation, rocks, hills, etc. The icon of the desert is the stately saguaro which I never tire from painting. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Sunset Cactus in Pot

8.5x2.75 watercolor on Canson 117 lb cold press paper done in August, another vertical painting that is handy as a bookmark or framed as wall art. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Very Tall Cactus in Pot

9x2 watercolor on 117 lb cold press Canson paper done last month, another vertical miniature that can be framed or used as a bookmark. This one was inspired by the many other potted cactus plants I've painted. White gel pen was used to make spiky thorns. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Cactus Wall bookmark

6x2 watercolor miniature southwestern art painted last month, one that can be framed or can be used as a bookmark. I used one of my paintings done earlier in the year as an inspiration. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Tall Desert Cactus

6x2 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary desert cactus in vertical format that can be used as a framed piece of art or as a bookmark. I painted this last month. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Mission Tower

12.5x10.5 watercolor and black India ink on 300 lb cold press Saunders paper; an imaginary southwestern architecture scene. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Southwest Light

8x10 acrylics on canvas done earlier in the month, an imaginary light filled southwestern scene of buildings and cactus along with hollyhocks. I painted it for an online acrylics challenge on WetCanvas. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Ann's Chile Ristras

9x7 watercolor in sketchbook done a few days ago, on 80 lb paper, from a photo I took at Ann Templeton's home in Ruidoso Downs in 2004. We were at a Ken Hosmer workshop and he took us to the famous oil/pastel artist's riverside adobe for a paint out. I first painted this simple chile pepper scene years ago on a full sheet 30x22 which went to a new home. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Nomadic Couple

15x11 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Master's Touch paper done last week or so ago, an imaginary figures in costumes Native American painting. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Utah Rock Tower

6x6 watercolor in Master's Touch 80 lb sketchbook done last week, another rock formation in the southwest based on some of my photos. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Warrior Chief

20x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, a commissioned piece done back in 1995 when I'd been painting watermedia for two years. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Southwest Vignette

15x20 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary scene showing a southwestern trading post and cowskulls I painted years ago. I included red pepper ristras and an old wagon wheel. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Saguaro Sunflower Bouquet

9x7 mixed media collage on paper from 80 lb sketchbook done last week. I used watercolor, acrylics, alcohol inks collage, ink pen (STA Lictin 0.8 pen. Two different alcohol ink florals were cut up and arranged on top of the cactus before gluing them. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Patio, La Placita in Lincoln, New Mexico plein air

12x16 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Arches paper. In downtown Lincoln, New Mexico I went on location to paint plein air. This small building closed with a sign saying 'La Placita' and had a covered patio with plants growing. Its stone wall was charming as were the vines and trees by the blue grey house. There is negative painting seen in the background. In this historic area one may remember the Lincoln County War and famous outlaw Billy the Kid. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Southwest View

6x6 watercolor on 80 lb sketchbook paper recently painted, another southwestern imaginary desert scene such as would be seen in Arizona. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Bells of San Xavier

15x11 acrylics on 140 lb cold press wc paper done last month using one of my photos of the old mission south of Tucson, AZ. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Adobe Gate

6.5x4.5 mixed media on brown sketchbook paper done mid-January 2022. I used watercolor, white gel pen, Brusho, and sketched with STA Lictin 0.1 pen. In this imaginary southwestern art scene I've tried to impart a sense of the dry desert. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Prickly Predicament

6x6 watercolor and white gel pen done in May on Masters Touch sketchbook, 80 lb. paper, done wet in wet. In this imaginary cactus desert scene I've emphasized the forms and shapes of the prickly pear cactus. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Back in Arizona

22x15 watercolor with Daniel Smith paints on Arches 140 lb cold press paper painted recently wet in wet. This is the side of a hotel front we stayed at often in the Phoenix area on work trips. I loved the huge yucca and its shadows and the contrast of the hotel's white stucco against a painterly sky. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Red Cross Southwest Still Life

22x30 acrylics and crayon on 140 lb Arches cold press paper done this past weekend; using black India ink for accent marks in this simple southwestern still life. Objects for the still life were set up during a trip to Odessa years ago. Flowers in pottery vases were painted with watercolor. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith