Desert Mystery Woman

11x14.75 watercolor, gouache, and ink line accents finished last week on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper. I had started with an abstract background then added a head and arm but put it away not sure if I wanted to complete this imaginary mysterious figure. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Red Cross Southwest Still Life

22x30 acrylics and crayon on 140 lb Arches cold press paper done this past weekend; using black India ink for accent marks in this simple southwestern still life. Objects for the still life were set up during a trip to Odessa years ago. Flowers in pottery vases were painted with watercolor. COPYRIGHT 2023 Kay Smith

Southwest Still Life

22x30 acrylics on Arches 140 lb cold press paper painted from life by setting up various still life objects and doing very wet in wet brushwork. Wax crayon saguaro images are scattered throughout the painting of southwestern items. CPYRIGHT 2020 Kay Smith

Buffalo Skull

A buffalo skull done in Strathmore Visual Journal for mixed media 5.5x8 finished this afternoon. Beginning with very wet watercolors I laid in red and black first yesterday. On dry paper today sketched with Artist's Loft watercolor colored pencils then added water to blend those. A few regular colored pencils were added for accents, making this a partial vignette, not adding all the blanket patterns.  Photo courtesy Hud/WetCanvas.  The skull was a gift to Hud in Montana from his Nam buddy, a Lakota Sioux.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Another Fractured Images Still Life

Dressy Callas, 22x15 watercolor

Here's another one in the same trend as the previous image ignoring perspective. Each of us in the Caboose Watercolor Society were tasked to create a composition using only 4 objects we'd selected prior and we had 6 months to 1 year to get our works done. (We had done a 4 Objects Still Life show several times). In this endeavor we had one fake calla lily, an Indian southwest blanket, a fake pear, and a coral colored miniature dress form jewelry holder. Good grief! I said when the items were delivered to me, how can anyone make an interesting design out of these incongruous, mundane, and uninteresting things? Well, here is my interpretation anyway, drawn, fractured, and painted in a broken shape relationship where all parts should make a whole.