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A watercolor painting depicts a landscape with green and brown grasses in the foreground and midground, with a body of water visible between them. The background shows a light, cloudy sky.

The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026

An abstract watercolor painting features washes of purple, yellow, and orange, with some green and blue accents. Splatters of dark paint are visible in several areas of the white background.

The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026

An abstract watercolor painting features a diagonal composition of colorful swirls, splatters, and brushstrokes on a white background. Hues of yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, and red are visible, with some areas showing blending and dripping effects.

The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 2026

An abstract watercolor painting features swirling brushstrokes in shades of blue, green, and red on a white background. The colors are concentrated in the center, with lighter washes extending outwards, and a signature is visible in the bottom right corner.

The Zanna Smith Archive · August 20, 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 watercolor painting depicts an American robin perched among crossing bare branches, its rust-orange breast set against a pale blue and lavender wash of distant twigs and buds. The foreground branches are painted in firmer brown and grey strokes, pulling the bird forward from the diffuse background.

Zanna Smith · August 29, 2026

This watercolor painting depicts a single leafy tree standing in a green field beneath streaked bands of orange, gold, and rose sky, with layered blue-violet hills behind and a small flock of birds crossing the upper left. The wash work is controlled and graded, letting the sky carry the drama while the foreground stays quiet.

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 watercolor painting depicts a reclining or rising figure with long golden hair and a pale wing, wrapped in flowing bands of rose, gold, green, and blue. The washes are wet and blended, letting the figure dissolve into the surrounding color rather than holding a firm outline.

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 loose watercolor painting depicts upright stalks of red and orange blossoms rising through swept green and blue grasses against a yellow-washed ground. The brushwork is gestural and rapid, with dry-brush flecks standing in for individual florets rather than describing them.

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