laura's watercolors

"Painting is an island whose shores I have skirted." --Chardin

Thursday, August 21, 2025

classwork

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I signed up for a 2-session online class with Susan Greenstein at Winslow Art Center. I've taken a couple of other classes w...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

ref photo

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                      8x10 Last summer, or maybe the one before, we took a tour of  abandoned lighthouses in the lower Delaware ...
Monday, August 18, 2025

sketchbook

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                     7x12 Flipping through a sketchbook I came across two pages I'd splashed with some color--I forget why! ...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

classwork

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I've recently taken two great classes, online, with Frances Stansfield at London Drawing Group, Hockney Stripes ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2025

cards

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                      5x7 My mom died eight years ago and since then I have been corresponding with an old friend of hers. Mrs. ...
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Friday, August 15, 2025

portree

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                      11x15 Not sure I should comment ... I feel it's kind of busy but, as usual, I am loath to tinker. So I...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

ref photo

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                      10x7 Another from Scotland. I will go back in and refine some shapes, esp on the lower right, after I'...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

ref photo

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                       12x9 Back to my Scotland photos. Hadn't planned to but now I think I may go back and add the water be...
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Saturday, August 09, 2025

more shells

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                    10x5 Not my best shell effort, but I'm glad to have finally done something. The weather has been phenome...
Saturday, August 02, 2025

plus de contraste

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Anonymous suggested this sketch needed more contrast, which I was also thinking. Let it sit for a day, then tried to...
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Friday, August 01, 2025

oyster shells

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                        8x12 Thought these were done ... But now I'm thinking they need just a touch more.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

intentions ...

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Brought stuff to do art with friends in FL, but it's been too hot. So today, my last day, I painted along with a couple of P...
Monday, July 28, 2025

visiting

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...my friend Robin in beautiful Dunnellen, FL. It's been a whirlwind but we did a little sketching under the liv...
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

shells

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                       9x12 Oyster shells and a mussel shell. I drew these loosely with a brush ... Hadn't planned: the shel...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

travel kit

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Next week going to see my brother and my good friend of long standing; they live about 1 hour apart in FL. There'll be kayak...

classwork

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                      9x12                        10x7 Painted these in an online class with Megan Swoyer . Megan...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

still life

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                       8x10 Fell off my reference-photo-day wagon. Not happy about it-- I hate to lose momentum: too muc...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

classwork

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                      8x12 A scene in Cornwall painted in an Artefacto class on seascapes with R. Thorn. The lesson was in two p...
Friday, July 11, 2025

ref photo

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                      7x10 Another Scotland scene. I think I would enjoy painting Scotland every day. But, for the sake of my ch...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

classwork

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                     14x10                      10x10 Marsh scenes painted in a class with Megan Swoyer at Greenbush...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

ref photo

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                         7x10 Back to Scotland. Water, rocks, grasses ... What could be better.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

$2 bouquet

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                         8x10 Didn't get to my ref photo painting yesterday. But I went out to get some heat-tolerant herbs ...
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