laura's watercolors

(11x15) I'm going to plan a larger, more complex still life; so far, all I know is I'd like to include my favorite silk flowers, Ch...

The danger of dabbing away ... These are supposed to be two hydrangea blossoms, but I kept indiscriminately dabbing on color, not giving en...

(7.5x11) Some days subjects to paint suggest themselves everywhere you look; those seem to make the best paintings, e.g., my Super Tuesday ...

More swatches today, but blues--I have so many, can't resist them. Then I thought I'd do an all-blue still life with this great blu...

No picture painting today--just thinking about picture painting ... I got a new folding palette, called "Mijello," with 40 well...

I have a small magnolia in my side yard, and every year when it blooms I take as many pictures and do as many paintings as I can (though in...

Posting late today, and in haste ... Here's another from my photos of the Villas Wildlife area.

My mom bought a big bag of peppers yesterday; I've always thought the architecture of peppers was interesting, and I got a little too o...

(A couple of friends of Peter's are staying at my house to do some work on it, so I've decamped--with my dog and three cats--to mom...

More Cezanne and me. The top is a pretty heavyhanded copy of Cezanne's 1890 Large Pine, Study. Looking through my photos of winter tree...

I hadn't planned on painting and posting today--out late last night, up early today ...--but this evening I started tackling the huge u...

Here's today's effort. I wanted it to be a companion to last Friday's, but didn't realize till I was well into it that the ...

A quick study using Opera (Holbein; Winsor & Newton also makes it now), a beautiful, pure pink recommended to me by Mineke . In the pet...

Another Moleskine sketch of the Villas Wildlife Area. Began this yesterday too, but abandoned it because I wasn't happy with the distan...

The title's a joke (a nod to my brother Dan) because this is a departure from the brown-gray reality--not that there aren't some ve...

Sunday I went back to the first go, trying to minimize what seems, more and more, to be the almost comic dominance of the pink and black fl...

After photographing this, the dark at the upper left seemed too prominent, so I added another, but my camera battery died, so I'll hav...

I want to recommend a blog that I visited last night--many, if not most of you, already know about it: it's Katherine Tyrrell's http...

Flush with yesterday's "success," I decided to try a while bowl on a striped dishcloth ... Not so successful! It's hard f...