laura's watercolors

(10x14) From the Monday class, more orchids from Marie's photos. Lowe's has some beautiful orchid plants for sale; I'm tempted,...

(5x7) Casting about for a subject yesterday ... didn't have any fresh flowers handy, so I settled on another snowscene from Pa. (5x10...

(10x15) I'm taking a watercolor class on Monday afternoons, 2-4 p.m. (wish it was an hour longer!), with a very good painter, Marie Nat...

(9x12) Another attempt at the daffodils. I don't think this photo accurately shows the yellow, which are brighter than they appear here...

Last night I watched The Lives of Others, a German film that won the Academy Award for best foreign film last year. It's a great movie...

(11x15) Is half a painting better than none? Want to get one more painting out of these daffodils, but I can't go any further on this, ...

(4.5x6.5) Another Pennsylvania subject: barn, covered bridge, ... springhouse.

(7.5x11) Another shot at the daffodils; I'm beginning to feel a little dogged in my pursuit of a bright, pure, pleasing yellow--it cont...

Added a complementary-colored background to see if could make the yellow "pop"; it's some help, but I'm not thrilled--whi...

I wasn't able to capture the yellow that these daffodils were screaming at me ... Perhaps it was drowned out by the three men hammering...

(6x9) Yet another Pa. snowscene ... I miss the red barn! Tomorrow: daffodils!

(6x9) Same scene as yesterday, but from a little further away. I left the roof snow-covered this time, but may have to go back and paint it...

Third week in a row I've missed my Friday still life group; so no progress on my plans for a large still life. Instead, I selected anot...

A work- and chore-filled day, which I really resented because it meant I didn't have time to go out and walk in the snow; it was only a...

Worked on the original, 11x15 (see Feb. 17 post, below), tulip picture tonight. It may be done, but my heart's not really in it, so I p...

(4x6 Virgin Islands postcards: this post is a bit text-heavy, so I dug up these two-year-old but not-previously-posted postcards.) I am not ...

Just for fun, here's the original, with the additional cut-out flower positioned in 3 places (it's like Find Waldo!), any one of wh...

(7.5x11) Painted these tulips yesterday, late afternoon into evening, watching The Sting on TV and nursemaiding Itchy, below, who hurt his ...

(11x15) This is about as far as I'll get today, I think, and though they're not very Demuth-like, I'm happy with how the leaves...