Purple Pot Cactus

6x6 watercolor using brush only, no pencil drawing, done yesterday of a potted cactus, another in my cactus series. This is on 80 lb sketchbook paper in Masters Touch book. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Hidden Cactus

6x4 watercolor and ink on Saunders Waterford 140 lb cold press paper using an abstract design over a more realistic form of a cactus. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Cactus with Orange Bloom

8.25x5.25 mixed media in junk journal done last week. I used a line drawing in ink and painted with White Nights paints in this imaginary succulent cactus art. White acrylics was painted over part of the background. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2022

Cactus with Pink Bloom

8.5x5.5 watercolor using White Nights paints done over the past week on Master's Touch paper from my ink line sketch earlier. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Tall Mini Cactus in Striped Pot

7x5.25 mixed media (watercolor, acrylics, ink, gel pen) done yesterday, another imaginary succulent in a pot over an abstract background. Gel pen in white used to make tiny prickly thorns. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Tall Mini Cactus

5x3 watercolor over pencil sketch done yesterday on 140 lb Grumbacher cold press paper using Daniel Smith paints. In this miniature cactus or succulent still life in a clay pot I have added white gel pen for its tiny prickly thorns. The paper had paint marks on it from other projects. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Jade Plant in Clay Pot

11x11 mixed media on Strathmore Toned Tan 184 lb paper completed today. I used leftover acrylics and black India ink applied with a wooden chopstick in this simple succulent still life set up. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Orchid Cactus epiphyllum

12x9 watercolor on Canson 138 lb paper finished yesterday of an orchid cactus bloom with a desert sky background in this imaginary succulent scene.  I am trying out the new Canson for mixed media paper but this work is not mixed with any other media.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Aloe Vera

12x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done a few days ago, a sketch from life.  This succulent plant has so many great uses of its fabulous leaves and I have several varieties.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith