Winter Bridge

8x10 acrylics on canvas recently painted, a frozen winter scene somewhere. COPYRIGHT 2025 Kay Smith

Spruced up for Winter

14x10 watercolor on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press block, American Journey/Daniel Smith paints, done with cold weather in mind and on its way with a pale lilac sky. Bare branches peep out behind the snow laden spruce tree and the old Victorian porch in this winter landscape. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith

Winter's First Day is Coming Soon!

8.75x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, an imaginary scene of old ramshackle barn on the first day of winter solstice. Some snow is evident on the surrounding trees, roofline, and foreground. I used an old black and white barn photo kept for many years so all color is made up. Some Gansai Tambi graphite colors were used in background trees. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Old Farm in Winter

8.5x5.5 watercolor on 80 lb Master's Touch sketchbook paper completed yesterday, an imaginary winter scene including an old faded red structure that could be a shed, house, or barn. Grown up in weeds, the bare branches of trees guard its place in nature on the old farm. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Frozen Edges

3x4 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper, another imaginary winter landscape painted at the end of December. It is not that cold and icy here but one can think about it. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Tree by Snowy Stream

9x6.75 watercolor of a simple imaginary winter snow scene, tree, and frozen water. Even though it is the first day of the Winter Solstice this painting imparts peace and calmness. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Tree by the Lake

6.75x9 watercolo on 140 lb cold press paper done earlier in the week, a cold winter scene with partially frozen lake. Another artist furnished the reference so not sure of where this lake is located. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Winter is Coming

6x6 watercolor on Masters Touch paper 80 lb. cold press in sketchbook done last week for a small but cold winter scene just beginning in my imagination. From the old dead tree with its few leaves hanging on to the snow drifts one can dream the season will come soon. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Frigid River

6x9 watercolor monochromatic using only one color: Moonglow (Daniel Smith) painted last week using a windswept, frozen environment as the basis. Snow and ice can be seen encircling the icy water surface while the tree limbs and branches bend from the weight of winter. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Lincoln Forest in Snow

4x6 watercolor on 300 lb cold press Saunders paper done a few weeks ago while in the Lincoln National Forest, just a grouping of trees in snow, waiting on spring sunshine. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Silence of Snow

11x15 another quiet snow scene in the country, watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done about a week or so ago. I used Cobalt Blue Violet, ultramarine blue, Prussian blue (Daniel Smith), and aureolin modern (QoR) paints. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Evergreen Creek

12x9 watercolor on Winsor Newton 140 lb cold press paper done week before last with no pre-drawing, a partly imaginative winter scene complete with its frozen creek water and evergreen trees. Painted wet on dry using a large #12 this winter landscape was done within a couple of hours. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Icebound

Icebound 6x9 watercolor and white crayon on 140 lb cold press Canson done a few weeks ago as a class demo, another imaginary winter landscape, frozen and icy, just like the weather here the past 3 days. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Windswept Creek

5.5x8.5 watercolor and white crayon on Masters Touch paper in sketchbook done last week from imagination. We were in the cold mountains so not too hard to dream this scene of winter landscape and its frozen parts. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Front Gate Tracks

6.5x4.5 ink line and gouache (Artsy) on tan sketch paper done a few days ago. This is our metal gate entry at our New Mexico place. The snow had fallen last month around my birthday so took this photo which shows cat paw prints through the white stuff. In this the tracks resemble human shoe prints. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

January Snowfall

4.5x9 watercolor, Brusho, and gouache on 140 lb cold press paper done last week thinking about snow. It is based on my reference photo of a snow laden evergreen tree. Winter is just getting started. COPYRIGHT 2022 Kay Smith

Tree on Snowbanks

12x6 watercolor and Brusho on Strathmore 140 lb. cold press paper, painted last week, an imaginary scene in winter. The Brusho adds another dimension to the texture I usually need to express. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

A Few Winter Trees

6x5 watercolor on 140 lb. cold press paper with mixed media abstract background; an imaginary Christmas scene. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2021.

Frozen Twisted Trees

5x8 mixed media on Canson 140 lb. cold press paper done today, an imaginary scene I could experiment on with different combinations. For this I did a pencil sketch first, then used white crayon over various tree parts, ground, and water. I used both black and white Brusho crystals next over a partially spritzed paper. I made a small amount of black Brusho mixed with water for a darker hue and used that to create more than one value. Diluted amounts of black and white Brusho made the sky and foreground. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Winter Trees in Snow

4x6 acrylic, gouache, and ink on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done yesterday, an imaginary winter snow scene complete with evergreen trees. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith