Winter Bridge

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

Chilly Pinecones

9x7 watercolor using Kuretake Gansai Tambi graphite paints in Masters Touch sketchbook 80 lb paper done over the weekend for another online challenge. With the WetCanvas' Weekend Drawing Event participants have 2 hours to select an image and paint it. Mine was under 1 hour painting partly wet in wet and wet on dry methods. Ref courtesy Connie. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Thawing Creek

15x22 watercolor done last week, an imaginary winter scene on Fabriano 140 lb rough cold press paper. This thawing creek with its hints of sunlight filtering through the trees offers hope for the next season. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Aspens in Snow Drift

8x8 watercolor on Masters Touch 140 lb cold press paper done last week, another imaginary winter landscape featuring a few aspens in a snow drift. No sign of any wildlife except birds flying overhead in this quiet and cold scene. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Pink Aspens in Snow

6x6 acrylic inks applied with a credit card on Masters Touch 80 lb sketchbook paper, done over the last weekend. Just another imaginary and humorous contemporary winter trees landscape. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Birch Woods

4.5x3.5 acrylics on Bristol 400 series plate, an imaginary scene of birches in the woods covered in snow. The paper had been covered in various marks of different media in black and green so I painted over that. 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

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

Hilltop Music

12x18 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done last week, an imaginary landscape featuring abstracted shapes with a high horizon line. When almost dry, tree lines were scraped in or put in with white gouache towards the bottom half. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Avenue of Trees

12x9 Brusho watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today as part of a WetCanvas watermedia monthly challenge. Image courtesy EP. Since we had a lot of snow today it was just the right mood for this winter scene of trees. COPYRIGHT 2021 Kay Smith

Tree Trunks in Snow

6.5x8.25 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper done over the weekend, a simple scene of sunlit snow surrounding bare trees and branches.  The cooler hued shadows fall over animal tracks and parts that have melted in this winter landscape.
COPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Thawing Snow

5x6 5/8 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done today, a made up scene of snow thawing and long tree shadows.  Using mostly browns and blues with thalo green cool colors this winter landscape should chill us all.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith

Snowbank

12x6 watercolor and white wax crayon on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper done last week.  I made random vertical lines with the crayon then added different neutral colors greyed down for trees.  Negative painting was done for branches and other tree branch shapes.  Reflections in the frozen ice foreground was a happy accident I didn't intend on having but I liked its effects.
Image COPYRIGHT 2015 Kay Smith.

Frozen Riverbanks

7x5 watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb cold press paper, done today of a wintry snow and ice mix on trees along the riverbank.  This work is SOLD.

Stillness - wolf in snow

11x15 watercolor painted today on Kilimanjaro 140 lb cold press paper with Daniel Smith paints:  Ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, raw sienna, burnt sienna, quinacridone burnt orange, sepia, carbazole violet, quinacridone gold. Background trees are all negatively painted. Total time 2 hours. I made up the snow and trees and the wolf photo is courtesy WetCanvas! Weekend Drawing Event Sept. 14-16, host Jean of Canada.  Her photo was a wolf in warmer weather so I changed the season.

Winter Wolves

20x16 watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold press paper, Daniel Smith paints.  In this wintry imaginary scene, three wolves gather to plan their next activity within the snow covered trees and brush.

Balls, Birds, and Branches

9.5 x 18 inches on Strathmore watercolor paper 140 lb cold press. This is my Merry Christmas to all of you artists and bloggers who have followed and supported me this year 2010. Here's to an even better year!