laura's watercolors

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

Friday, March 13, 2026

daffodils

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day 2 of daffodils. Still just trying to get comfortable with or find the colors and forms.
Thursday, March 12, 2026

daffodils

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First small daffodil studies of 2026! Kept them small and simple, alla prima ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

mumuration

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.                     7x9 Painted in a class with SaltyWater Art. These are my small practice studies. Plan to do an...
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Sunday, March 08, 2026

self portaits

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                     10x12 Working on some other self portraits indirectly inspired by my art history class' loo...
Friday, March 06, 2026

self portraits

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Finished my 2nd self portrait. Things I like and things I don't: I like the shirt, the cat, the striped cloth, the shadow on...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

tulips!

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                     7.5x11 Went to my friend Gina's today and she had some tulips. Here, in order, ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

melo and me

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                      9x12 one of my classes is going to be focused on self portraits this week. started a 2nd but it needs work...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

arctic terns

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                        8x12 painted in Saltywater Art's class. I was thinking of adding blue backgr...
Monday, March 02, 2026

cedar waxwing

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                   12x12 sheet cedar waxwing paintings from an online class with Ronna Fujisawa thru the Oregon Bird Alliance. b...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

jmw turner copies

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a page of copies of Turner skies on hot press paper  a page of paintings of the sky here in NJ in my attempt to emul...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

late afternoon sketching

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                   fountain pen .                     graphite .                  watercolor ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

lemon bay sunset

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a little sketching at sunset on the beach at lemon key last night

cranes

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                       15x18 A couple of paintings I'm working on.  Looking at them now I think I spent too much...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

copy of Marin painting

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Not much time to paint today so I decided to try something I've been meaning to start doing for quite a while: copy a John M...
Monday, February 16, 2026

another paint along

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                         9x12 With Paul George via YouTube. His colors were so much more subtle and also purer than mine. He use...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

painting along

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                      9x12 With Paul George. If you haven't checked him out on YouTube I can highly recommend it...
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Saturday, February 14, 2026

still life

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                     8x10 Another still life for my class at Winslow art center with Abby Ober. It's freeing and fun to pain...
Friday, February 13, 2026

sketchbook

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My friend Gina came over yesterday and we spent a couple of hours doing some painting in our sketchbooks. ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

in the style of

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                       8x10 A still life in the style of Raoul Dufy.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

cats wip

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.                     16x20 This is homework for a class. I'm trying to put together a painting using various refere...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

cezanne

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I took a London Drawing Group class on Cezanne watercolors, a 2-hour one-off. But I hope they'll do ...
Monday, February 09, 2026

more wip

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I went a little further on my wip, and also started another. Stopping to consider what to do next.
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