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This mixed media drawing in oil pastel or crayon with ink depicts a stand of bare trees, their trunks and branches drawn in vivid blue, magenta, and black over a scumbled ground of green, yellow, and pale blue. The scribbled linework describes the tangle of winter branches without settling into a single contour.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This abstract painting, in acrylic or heavy-bodied watercolor, swirls magenta, violet, and crimson around a turquoise and cobalt core, with black calligraphic strokes arcing through the composition. Spattered flecks of yellow and red concentrate at the center, suggesting a burst held inside a rotating field.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This watercolor painting depicts a broad field rendered as horizontal bands of magenta, gold, plum, and green, running back to a dark treeline beneath a pale blue-green sky. The color is stippled and layered so the bands read as blooming crops rather than flat stripes.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This mixed media drawing in pastel or colored pencil with ink depicts two rounded turquoise forms nested against a sweep of violet and indigo arcs, with a coral and magenta plume radiating from the upper right. Fine red and black squiggled lines gather at the left of the lower form, adding a nervous, filamentary texture against the soft broad shapes.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This mixed media painting of watercolor or water-soluble crayon with ink depicts a pair of irises in violet, magenta, and blue against a pale aqua ground, their petals outlined in dark ink and filled with mottled color. Green blades sweep upward around the stems, with small red and yellow blossoms scattered along the base.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This mixed media painting combines watercolor or water-soluble crayon washes with fine ink linework to depict a large teal-and-green butterfly gliding above a loose meadow of orange, purple, and magenta blossoms. The pale yellow ground is left largely open at the top, giving the butterfly room to hover above the dense band of flowers along the lower edge.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026