Thunderstorm Arrival

7x9 watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook painted last week or first week of June when we were having multiple thunderstorms in this area. This landscape is imaginary. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2025

Alto Clouds

5.5x8.5 watercolor on sketchbook 80 lb paper using Master's Touch. This is from a photo I took in the Alto Lakes parking lot of menacing clouds that went on to flood Roswell October20th. But with the painting I changed the foreground to be green grassland rather than parked cars, etc. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Stormy Prairie Skies

6x6 watercolor in Master's Touch sketchbook done last weekend, another imaginary landscape scene with boisterous clouds over the prairie land. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Early September Storm

6x6 watercolor on 80 lb sketchbook paper from Master's Touch brand done at first of the month. This is another imaginary storm scene I have created just as we are having during this time in west Texas. Thankful for the rain! COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Surf Clouds

6x6 watercolor using Da Vinci summer paint collection in this cloud scene done week before last. Another in my cloud series, this focuses on both clouds and the water beneath them and is imaginary. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Heavy Spring Rainclouds

4.25x7.25 acrylics and watercolor mix on paper in this imaginary stormy rain clouds. This was another imaginary cloud scene done week before last and I was focused on the clouds turmoil over the earth. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2024

Storm Clouds on the Way ~ World Oceans Day!

6x9 watercolor on Fabriano 140 lb hot press paper done a few days ago to honor World Oceans Day, celebrated every June 8th. In this imaginary scene, the sky has threatening clouds and the water or surf is rising in response. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Cloud Cover Over Water

5.5x8.5 watercolor using White Nights paints on Canson 117 lb cold press paper done last month. This marine scape was part of an online challenge; ref courtesy another artist. COPYRIGHT 2024 Kay Smith

Old Country Church

5.5x8.5 watercolor on Masters sketchbook 80 lb paper done over the weekend for the WetCanvas All Media Art Event. Artists have a 2 hour time limit to select an image and then paint or draw their choice. If not done then they are to post the unfinished work in progress at the 2 hour mark. I liked the old building all alone with storm clouds brewing above the hayfield. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith 2020.

Storm Warning

14x10 watercolor on Stonehenge 140 lb hot press paper done over the past weekend, a scene down the road with heavy clouds gathering above while utility poles guard the area.
COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Stormy Texas Skies

3.5x2.5 watercolor miniature of west Texas thunderstorm clouds building up, painted from my iPhone photo of the view outside my VA office window.  The building to the left is the engineering boiler plant and to the right are the east wings of the old hospital.  Actual size of this art card cityscape is seen below.

COPYRIGHT 2019 Kay Smith

Krakow Evening

8.5x5 watercolor on Fluid 140 lb cold press paper begun yesterday then finished today as part of another weekend drawing event on WetCanvas.  For the 2 hour time limit, I managed to get it done in about 45 minutes.  With the silhouetted buildings the sky was an opportunity to create some dark, dancing clouds in the fading evening light.
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kay Smith.

Rainy Skies

15x11 watercolor painted today, a low horizon imaginary landscape with contented cows in foreground and red barn and outbuildings in distant background.  Overhead are low grey menacing clouds threatening rain under blue skies.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Approaching Storm

22x30 watercolor on Saunders 140 lb cold press paper finished today.  An imaginary family farm complete with red barn and outbuildings sit on one side of a vast grazing ground while cows ignore the rain and approaching storm clouds.
Image COPYRIGHT 2016 Kay Smith.

Timeworn Truck

10x15 watercolor, 10 minutes to draw (no pencil) in black India ink then 1 hour approximately to paint an old truck and shack scene in graphic style (bold line, atmospheric, comic book, flat, etc.).  Dark clouds moving in on the scene were laid in first with raw umber violet, raw umber, prussian blue and sap green over lighter underpainting of cobalt ultramarine green.  I kept adding paint to wet washes and hoped for no mud as this was thin Canson paper 140 lb.  Ref featured on this weekend's drawing event on WetCanvas, courtesy Li Newton.