laura's watercolors

I'll be in Lewes, Delaware, Monday through Friday, staying with my friend Shelby and attending a painting workshop with Judi Wagner. Whe...

(8x8) Same scene attempted with Wolf Kahn-ish colors: thalo green, cobalt violet, yellow (though my yellow is too green here; I'd like ...

Same (made-up) scene, different day. Looking at this, I get the urge to try it in a Wolf Kahn palette ... (I should clarify perhaps that t...

(8x8) I'm starting to sort through my mind-numbing assortment of art supplies to pack for my plein-air painting in Delaware next week. ...

(22x30) I've had this full sheet drawing for more than a year, always alternating between wanting to finish it and wanting to abandon i...

The orangey and dark reds I'm trying to get elude me. This instead uses all the reds and pinks on my palette.

(10x15) I grabbed these fake flowers at random, recovering them from a box in the shed while in search of my hammock. I jammed them in a li...

(8x12) More nighttime painting, after a day running around. Looks like another great spring day today--that's three in a row! Which sho...

(3x5) A little made-up Bay scene. I've lived by the Bay for 16 years, and still water and and dune grasses continue to be such challeng...

(5x7) Two more views of the Ranchos de Taos church. In the top one--the view painted by O'Keeffe--I used glazing, starting with yellow...

(5x7) And now for something completely different ... This is a side view of the church in Taos that O'Keeffe painted. I have a view fro...

A little more practice ...

A too-complex subject: a small section of Peter's backyard,

Last night I attempted to redo one of the Pigeon Key scenes and thought it was a good start; this morning I woke up and saw the yellow I us...

Feeling a bit distracted and scattered, which is not conducive to painting! Can't seem to settle on a subject or commit to the time, or...

(7.5x11) In class today I worked on two more Pigeon Key scenes. I started out with too much water, and the paper stayed frustratingly wet ...

My final teacher at CU, with whom I took several classes, including a couple of summers of oil painting in Central Park (I have a handful ...

I was lucky in my first teacher. She was a believer and practitioner of glazing. She set up simple, and I thought at the time odd and bori...

I had taken art in HS, but abandoned drawing for reading through college and grad school; in the late 80s I signed up for a drawing class at...