Blooming Garden Chair

8x6 watercolor on handmade rough 140 lb cold press paper done mid July, an imaginary rusty garden chair holding blooms in the sunshine. Garden scenes are such fun to paint. Keep your plants watered and healthy in this triple digit heat. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2026

Sudderth Drive Hollyhocks

18x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper begun last paint in day this week, using one of my old photos of hollyhocks growing along Sudderth Drive in Ruidoso, NM. The old store has since closed but the hollyhocks are blooming in summer along the iron fence. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Black Hollyhocks and White Roses

7x5.5 watercolor on Italia 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary garden flower scene in prepping today for a very large one of just black hollyhocks I'm getting ready to paint.  Mixed blacks were done using quinacridone violet, UB, quin magenta, permanent rose, carbazole violet, and indigo.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Butterfly and Coneflowers

8x5.5 watercolor and ink line in Strathmore Visual Journal, a spring scene that has now been SOLD.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith