Hollyhock Fence ~ painted rock

2.5x3 acrylics painted on a smooth rock done in July as part of an online landscape challenge. The rock was painted with gesso before sketching was done to provide a smooth surface. This miniature hollyhock garden is blooming for sure. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Flower Fence ~ Happy Thanksgiving

6x4 watercolor on 140 lb cold press Canson paper done recently and sold, an imaginary white picket fence I've done before with tall old fashioned hollyhocks behind it. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Pink Climbing Roses

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch Premium 140 lb cold press paper, climbing pink roses across a white picket fence. Green lawn in background sets the stage in this imaginary summer landscape/garden scene. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

White Picket Fence Garden

9x12 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done last week, an imaginary house and garden based on a piece I did in 2009 that is no longer available. Imagine the hydrangeas, cosmos, marigolds, etc. in bloom with summer shadows softly falling on the fence and house. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

White Fence Flowers

8.5x5.5 acrylics on 80 lb. paper, an imaginary garden scene done last week using an old white picket fence as the starting point and adding mostly multicolored hollyhocks behind it. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Hollyhock Shadows

8x8 watercolor on Masters Premium 140 lb cold press paper finished today, an imaginary scene of a white Adirondack chair backed by tall old fashioned hollyhocks. The garden flowers grow tall next to the white picket fence and cast their shadows upon the chair and pillow. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Fence Row Sunflowers

5.25 x 4.25 watercolor of imaginary wild sunflowers lined up in a row by an old white picket fence.   You can see these type flowering weeds growing everywhere.  This country scene is done on 140 lb cold press paper.
COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2019

Fence Row Sunflowers ~ day 27 of 30 in 30 challenge

5.25 x 4.25 watercolor of wild sunflowers lined up in a row by an old white picket fence.   You can see these type flowering weeds growing everywhere.  This small work is featured for day # 27 of Leslie Saeta's biannual 30 paintings in 30 days challenge and is done on 140 lb cold press paper.
Image COPYRIGHT 2017 Kay Smith.

Old Texas Vehicle

5.5x8 watercolor and ink on Strathmore Visual Journal for watercolor sketched yesterday and painted today.  I used Micron 01 pen in this 50s era vehicle from an old photo the year my parents married.  Fallen leaves scatter across the road with white picket fence in the distance in this rural scene.  There was another digit in the license plate that I left off.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Love Stands Alone poppies

22x15 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper done last week, a commission of red poppies for a couple's anniversary.  I added the lone white bloom to signify marriage between a man and a woman and/or bridal purity.  Several of my poppy photo refs were used but the picket fence that denotes the home is imaginary.  Every analogous red, orange, and pink on my palette was used. 
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.  This work is SOLD.

Shutters in Belize

22x15 watercolor painted from photos I took while in Belize City; this old white wooden house had been let go and run down as were most of the older stately homes and mansions the British built.  Its fence also was trying to hold on with tall spindly white pickets guarding the secrets within.  Palm fronds and tropical flowering bushes nicely framed a lone green shuttered window.
Image is COPYRIGHT Kay Smith.

Sunflower Garden WIP - finished

 15x11 watercolor completed today, brush only.  More leaves, foliage, and background trees were added then shadows were last, a mix of UB and permanent rose.  I've put pink hollyhocks and blackeyed susans into the composition.  Step 2 is seen below.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith

Tall sunflowers were added in background for height in this second view of the work in progress.

Sunflower Garden - Work in Progress

15x11 watercolor work in progress (WIP), brush only, of imaginary garden scene of sunflower varieties that will include the common roadside weeds that resemble sunflowers.  Those tall yellow invasive specimens dot the west Texas landscape.  Negative painting has been done in between white pickets.  This is today's work on Canson 140 lb cold press paper/Daniel Smith pigments.  Tomorrow I hope to finish today's work.  It would actually work, if cropped, as a vignette even unfinished.
Image WIP copyright Kay Smith 2014.

Picket Line Hollyhocks

11x7 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper, a quick demo done yesterday in the studio for the class, a totally imaginary scene. I love to paint white subjects and to do another picket fence was right up my alley (no pun intended).  Also hollyhocks are my favorite cottage flower with their tall upright heirloom blooms so reminiscent of another time when the world was calmer and quieter.
Image is COPYRIGHT 2014 Kay Smith.  *PRINTS AVAILABLE on my website http://www.kaysmith.artspan.com/

Lazy Daze Bicycle

4.25x7 watercolor done a few days ago, an imaginary spring or summer day which we long for now, stuck in the middle of February! The viewer can decide on a story for the painting.  Did someone park their bike for a short hike or a long stroll? Stop to smell the flowers? Chat with a neighbor? Look for photo ops for their next masterpiece? You pick!

Sunsplashed House

6x10 watercolor on Saunders 300 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints begun yesterday then finished up this afternoon.  This is a closely cropped old white house in Charlottetown, photo courtesy Wendy of WetCanvas, and is featured in July's Landscape forum. I love the splashy shadows made by the huge tree on the flowers, picket fence, and front foreground.

Hollyhocks Over the Fence

5 3/4 x 7 watercolor, an imaginary made up scene of multicolored hollyhocks spilling over white picket fence posts.

Fencerow Sunflowers

5.25 x 4.25 watercolor of wild sunflowers lined up in a row by an old white picket fence.   You can see these type flowering weeds growing everywhere.

Wacky Birdhouses

10x8 watercolor of a grouping of fun birdhouses no real bird would set foot or claw into.
This painting is SOLD.