laura's watercolors

Another of my cats, Melo. Added some color in the background and a hint of a tail.

                        8x8 I grab a few of these dried pods every year, intending to paint and/or draw the. I love their shape....

I'm not sure of the title of this one, one of his paintings of Tommies bathing. Really interesting to see how expressive his...

                   10x12 A copy of one of my favorite Sargent paintings, A Tent in the Rockies. This took me three sittings to c...

                      8x8 Had time this morning to take my time and relax while painting one of my cats, Arya. She's my tiny...

Monochrome studies for a class I'm in. After trying with Payne's gray and indigo, I wanted to pa...

So busy with work and end-of-summer tasks and work on the house that I haven't had time to really "work...

These were all painted from the same reference photo 

                     5x7 I have a small pile of photos I've taken of the marshes here in southern NJ. They're endlessly ...

                     9x12 Someone in one of the online groups I paint with took a photo at a farmers market and shared it with u...

Copied a little snow sketch from a Ron Ranson book. I'm really enjoying his alla prima approach. I can see, after photograph...

                    12x14 Painted these this morning with an Eric Weigardt paint-along video. I've done a couple...

                   3x4 studies .                        8x10 From tonight's class with SaltyWaterArt. Studies re...

Painting along with a replay of Birgit O'Connor's ethereal landscapes workshop. No photo reference but Iyou ...

                      9x12 The third and final class copying and learning from Charles Reid, using his book on flowe...

.                    8x8 Practice for my birds in flight class with Ian de Hoog.  I've painted birds for a while...

I got this reference photo from one of the sites that offers reference photos to artists--maybe, probably, Paint My ...

                    8x10 A very wet limited palette painting: cobalt, rose madder genuine, and aureolin. Amazing how many pretty...

Class #2 of painting like Charles Reid with Megan Swoyer: one of my dahlias painted a la CR and a copy of a small st...

Took a class with Paul Talbot-Greaves through Artefacto yesterday. I love his work--the greens he makes are astounding: strong b...

                  1 minute each                   2 minutes each Watched the video of a class with Franc...