laura's watercolors

                   11x11 I thought I was doing pretty well with these two paintings but then I took off in a bad dir...

                 8x14 I went too far on this and lost the structure of at least one flower. But I do like the colors. ...

            12x14 / 2 minutes             12x18 / 4 minutes .          18x24 / 4 minutes I s...

Day 2 of 10 minutes in my sketchbook: alstroemeria, aka Peruvian lily. I spent 10 minutes on the drawing, then 10 mo...

                    12x12 Where I am on my painting for my Susan Abbott class: first layer of color over my underpai...

10-minure sketchbook painting. I always have apples but I rarely paint them ... Probably because I'm usually unhappy with th...

                  16x20 My sample sampler. These are freehand paintings of pieces of fabric I own. I wanted to practice working ...

My red amaryllis finally bloomed. This is my first try, without drawing. This plant has several buds that haven't opened yet...

                       2x2" I saw this painting posted on Facebook about a week ago and I just can't stop l...

                       10x10 Ultramarine blue underpaintings and color swatches. I'm going to try to paint one w...

                      8x8 Not much time today so I just painted this cardinal.

                     11x12 Next step in my Susan Abbott class is to make an ultramarine underpainting.  I did a quick one and th...

One of my amaryllis bulbs has finally started to open.  I find the pink and white ones hard to paint; But maybe once it opens mo...

Very rough week to be an American, one of many, and no end in sight. I don't know what to say--it's just ver...

One more drawing for my class: the pencil drawing, and the same drawing manipulated with a notanizer to see if I can find big, c...

               I started a Susan Abbott class today, one where we will construct a painting by combining...

A couple of attempts to, loosely, copy a Winslow Homer painting. I wanted to try to get the shape and the gesture of...

A spray of oak leaves from my yard.