Vegetable Row

5.25x9.5 watercolor using White Nights paints on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, done last weekend, a quick study of peppers and onions still life. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Red Bell Pepper

3.25 x 4 alcohol inks and watercolor on abstract background of Canson 140 lb cold press paper done last week. With this simple still life of a red bell pepper, only its outline and few lines were made. The paper already had ink and other watermedia marks from using it as a backing sheet behind other works. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Vegetables on Talavera Mosaic

18x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper still life I set up of two onions and a red bell pepper on tile surface.  The pattern areas are Talavera pottery pieces along with rusty iron and concrete parts.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Odorless Onions

15x11 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, an assortment of different onion varieties in a vignette format.  This cheap savory vegetable won't make your eyes water or will it impart an aroma or smell as it is only a painting.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.

Balancing Act - vegetable still life

18x12 watercolor of two onions and a red bell pepper balancing on a sunflower mosaic vase I'd turned on its side.  They're resting on cut glass mosaic top of an old hospital stretcher in my studio.  At upper left is a portion of Talavera pottery holding plants.  I set up this still life last year then drew and painted it before the onions and pepper got too ripe sitting in the sunny south window.  This is dry brush on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper.

Demo Windowsill with Red Pepper for Noonday class

15x22 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper. It was the first demo for Noonday's workshop participants, painted in under 2 hours wet into wet. I tried to show them how to do negative painting as noted in the herb pot's leaves.

Balancing Act - a vegetable still life

18x12 inches watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press block. Drawn from my fresh vegetables I placed on the side of an overturned mosaic sunflower vase, I placed in a sunny south window and painted wet on dry. Patterns you see beneath are those of glass shards and a metal cross embedded in another mosaic (it is the top of an antique gurney). Top left is the side of a Talavera pottery garden pot.

Windowsill

15x22 watercolor on Italia Acquerello 140 lb cold press paper of a group of fresh veggies and herbs in an imaginary windowsill. Some negative painting done with herb leaves; this was painted wet in wet using American Journey paints.