Kelly Jean Smith is a representational fine artist living in Saratoga Springs, NY. She specializes in portraiture and figurative work in oil and charcoal and also works digitally in Procreate on the ipad. She earned her Master’s in Fine Art from SUNY New Paltz and completed a yearlong mentorship online program with Visual Arts Passage in illustration during the pandemic. From 2007 - 2020 she attended weekly life drawing sessions at Saratoga Arts and has taken numerous workshops in portraiture, figure drawing and oil throughout her development as an artist. She has taught introductory drawing, figure drawing, and oil painting classes at Saratoga Arts, The Art Center of the Capitol Region, and The Atelier at Arlene’s as well as Procreate privately. She has worked for BeTa Community Programs and taught art after school classes grades k-5. In 2025 she was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from Saratoga Arts through the NY State Regrant program. Her focus was narrative illustration, the singular female image, and spirituality. The paintings from that project were printed as cards and sold to benefit the local food insecurity program at Pitney Community Farms. She is available for private lessons and commissions.