laura's watercolors

Life-size Bartlett pears. Pears are so subtly colored ... and subtly shaped! I need to add some background stuff.

Taking a class with Michael Weller at Winslow Art Center: four weeks of drawing and painting pears. I'm really t...

I am taking a recorded online travel sketchbook course with Liz Steel. The class is very well produced and put toget...

                              8x10 Returning to a favorite subject, Scotland, to help get me out of my slump. Tried to keep it s...

Whew. In a terrible long-lasting slump ... lots of ideas, some desire, no execution. It's depressing. I know it ...

                           11x14                                9x11 A couple of sketchbook pages from a photo I too...

                             8x10 Trying to get back to painting ... again. I've had a lot of work to do, and then the heat!...

A couple of studies, painted with no drawing, on hot press paper. Feeling overwhelmed of late and not too happy with...

                             10x14 Had to have a huge, disruptive, unexpected and hugely $$$ home repair here almost 2 weeks ago...

                              6x8 Two small paintings from my class with SaltyWaterArt. I did the bottom one first a...

Painted in class with SaltyWaterArt. We used a limited palette--quin gold, sap g...

My friend Gina came over and on a rainy day we painted peonies from my yard. I have five peony plants bu...

I set myself another little challenge ... and I may actually be able to keep up with this one. I love giorgio morand...

Pages in my sketchbook from a little plein air outing the other morning. Forecast calls for ...

                         10x14 Another iris, many blooming in the yard right now. Dried up tulips and amaryllis. ...

                             11x15 Made a little chart of the colors in my plein air palette. Had the paints out so ...

Lately I've been playing around in my sketchbook-- low effort, less time- and mind-consuming?--rather than making "pain...

                             10x14 Painted along with a Paul George video on YouTube.

                           10x14 Now that it's getting warmer, and I'm getting up earlier, I'm going to try to spend...

Sketchbook pages from a 2-hour online class with John Muir Laws. Lots of great tips for draw...