laura's watercolors

day 2 of daffodils. Still just trying to get comfortable with or find the colors and forms.

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

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

                     10x12 Working on some other self portraits indirectly inspired by my art history class' loo...

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...

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

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

                        8x12 painted in Saltywater Art's class. I was thinking of adding blue backgr...

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

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...

                   fountain pen .                     graphite .                  watercolor ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

                       8x10 A still life in the style of Raoul Dufy.

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

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

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