Max

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch 140 lb cold press premium paper painted yesterday for a customer who furnished the photograph. Max did not have a home but was enticed inside and now is enjoying a warmer life with food and love. This work is SOLD. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Black Cat Pose

8.5x5.5 watercolor using White Nights paints on Masters Touch sketch paper done over the past weekend of a black cat in a regal pose. He has minimal white hair on his chest. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Poppy Cats

15x22 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, a painting using my fractured image style where various rectangles are marked on top of a pencil drawing.  Then each section is painted differently but the whole composition jives in the end.  These three cats belong to the owner who commissioned this unique pet portrait.  Flowers were also to be included so I chose poppies that would set off the neutral colors of the kitties.  This work is SOLD.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2018.

Kitty Worship

4x6 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper completed yesterday for an online WetCanvas challenge in the Animal & Wildlife forum.  This ginger orange tabby cat appears to be looking toward the sky or maybe just a bird in the branches.
COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith           Email:   1971ks@att.net to purchase via PayPal               Cost:  $75

Blue-eyed Kitty

11x14 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb paper done a few days ago.  This lovely cat belongs to another artist's friend, so do not know its name.  Very faint peach color tabby markings are on its head with the lilac points indicating a Siamese parent.  The white mask and chest give beautiful tones to this kitty along with the vivid blue eyes.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Blackie cat

5x8 watercolor, another cat pet portrait companion piece to Queenie cat posted yesterday.  This is painted on 140 lb Saunders wc paper using Daniel Smith paints.  Blackie sits in a Victorian era ornate chair, quite at ease with himself in his luxurious surroundings.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Queenie cat

5x8 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary diva cat lounging on her Victorian settee furniture.  I've done another cat, but in black, to post later that is a companion piece to this cat pet portrait.  I titled this one Queenie as she appears so regal on the red with purple furnishings.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Cat with Green Ball

5.5x8.5 watercolor and ink on Masters sketchbook paper done over the weekend.  Our old cat Bootsie who had long thick hair loved to play with the soft spongy balls.  Here I have used a four color combination to make a mixed black:  First pairing was ultramarine blue + quinacridone burnt orange application, and second was alizarin crimson + thalo green.  The ball is thalo yellow green and some of that opaque color is mixed in his tail.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Daydreaming Cat ~ day 6 of 30 paintings in 30 days challenge

6x9 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper that is today's work for Leslie Saeta's 30 paintings in 30 days challenge.  A semiannual international event has many people participating.  This is Chuy, my grey tabby who will turn 16 this year, and he is such a sweetheart.  Not many colors used with this:  Ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, quinacridone gold, and Payne's Grey.  A very small amount of carbazole violet used at the base of Chuy's ear.  After the background was put in I lightly pulled up some color with a rag while wet, then added quin gold to lighter areas on the cat's fur.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

A Friend's Cat

11x15 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper painted this past weekend over Christmas Eve.  This part ginger part white female cat belonged to a friend and I forget the cat's name but I've painted her before in different poses.  Here she was resting in a flowerbed of leaves in the fall; the dark greens contrasted well with her orange rust colored fur.  I painted this much more loosely than usual.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Pixie Puss

12x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, a pet portrait done today in under 2 hours for a WetCanvas challenge.  This pretty calico Pixie belongs to Christine in Australia.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Purple Collar Cat

11x15 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done last week.  Using no color reference I attempted to paint my grey tabby cat Chuy.  This was done very quickly with a large #28 round brush and a smaller #10 for his yellow green eyes, nose a other details.  The splatter when finished actually dropped a heart shape in red on the metal heart on the purple collar.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

It's a Small World kitten

15x22 watercolor painted a few years ago of a sweet tabby kitten taking his bath, all roly-poly and fluffy as he should be. This one is SOLD.
Image COPYRIGHT 2009 Kay Smith

Tripod Kitty

12x18 watercolor of one of the WetCanvas artists holding her 3 legged cat named Tripod. The only way he bathes is if she holds him.
image COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2010.

Purrsonal Hygiene kitty

4x6 watercolor over pencil drawing orange and white cat cleaning its paws, a regular bathing routine all kitties enjoy endlessly.  Another cat image on a magazine insert card in my series and for the Facebook 30 Cats in 30 Days challenge that ends soon.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Let the Cat out of the Bag

3.5x5.5 watercolor and ink on a magazine insert card done today.  The card is advertising Safe Step Walk-In Tub.  Since I had Chester peeking out of a brown grocery bag or sack, the tub faucet handles appear to belong there as if in a kitchen.  Even the heading Yes! I want my independence back could be the cat's mantra.  The 30 Cats in 30 Days Facebook and WetCanvas challenges are almost up!
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Watchful Cat

4x5.5 watercolor and ink line (Micron 01) on paper, a Southern Living magazine travel card insert.  Luckily my magazine came early so I was able to grab the annoying paper cards and busily plan which kitties to feature on the Facebook cat challenge along with WetCanvas!  This fellow is Hungry Jack, another rescue from a few years ago, who sat under the street lamp across from our front door.  He was hunting bugs to eat as he was starving; very tame and loveable, he was either lost or was tossed out.  One of our employee's cats had to be put down so was able to find him a home within a few months.  I loved Jack as he found a baby snake in my kitchen and caught it.  God bless cats!
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Sourpuss

4x6 watercolor and ink with Micron 01 pen on a magazine insert card from my latest issue of Cloth Paper Scissors done today.  This longhaired grey kitty is not happy so I have named this Sourpuss and painted around him in lemon yellow.  This will go in Facebook's 30 Cats in 30 Days challenge currently in progress for February.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Jezebel Cat Dozing

6x6 watercolor and ink line wash on Masters paper of my studio Siamese Jezebel dozing in a southern window.  The warm sun helps her 14 year old joints and bones feel better I'm sure! She is such a sweetheart and has many friends who stop by just to pet her.  One of my customers even brings her cooked fresh salmon!
Image is COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

Winter Nap kitty

6x6 watercolor and Micron 01 pen sketch on Masters paper of kitty Chester taking his winter nap.  Of course we had sunny skies and almost 70 F. today, so this outside frosty glow is just imaginary.  Below is my initial sketch.  Images are COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.