Threatening Sky

5.5x8.5 watercolor using Da Vinci and White Nights paints, an imaginary stormy landscape done last week. This is in a mixed media sketchbook an is a limited palette of two colors: Payne's Gray and Naples Yellow. For the tree I did use a bit of mixed brown. Using these two opaque colors was quite a fun challenge. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Prairie Thunderclouds

6x6 watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done last day of September, some imaginary fierce thunderheads building up over the prairie, promising rain. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Soaring Rainclouds

6x6 watercolor done in Master's Touch sketchbook last week at beginning of September, another imaginary weather scene. These rainclouds appear to be soaring and roaring above. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Cloud Build Up

6x6 watercolor in Masters Touch sketchbook on 80 lb paper done week before last, another in my cloud and landscape series. We have a cloud subject challenge in WetCanvas' Landscape forum for June. In this imaginary scene, billowing clouds are turning gray with a promise of rain over the land and trees. I've used Daniel Smith's color Moonglow for most of the mixed soft blacks. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Rainy Skies

15x11 watercolor painted today, a low horizon imaginary landscape with contented cows in foreground and red barn and outbuildings in distant background.  Overhead are low grey menacing clouds threatening rain under blue skies.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.