laura's watercolors

I thought this picture needed something, so I added the mast to the front boat. I think I'll lift a little (it's too dark), but othe...

My second go at these yacht club paintings. I don't think it's ever taken me so long to finish such little pictures! I'm peckin...

Well, it's the last hurrah here at the Jersey shore, but, for locals, now the best days begin: warm, long September days. I went to the...

(7.5x11) This month's Virtual Sketch Date painting. The subject was daunting, so I tried to keep Charles Hawthorne's advice in mi...

(7.5x11) An experiment in glazing ... The paper's getting fatiqued, so I'll stop for now. I used a photo from my trip to Lewes, Del...

Watching the last two nights of the Democratic Convention brought this poem to mind: The time will come when, with elation, you will greet y...

One thing I don't need, but can't resist--like gold sandals or blue cheese--is new colors. I just got these four: royal blue, rose ...

(4 5.5x7.5) The page of a bit larger studies, with two closeups, below.

(4 4x6s) The little studies. I propped the board with the photos up about 6 feet away from where I was painting, but my hand still insisted...

This is a half sheet (15x22) divided into four 7.5x11 sections, on which I've lightly drawn shapes from my Cape Henlopen dune photos. (...

Yesterday, out of the blue, a small catalog from a Feb. 2008 Tate exhibit arrived in the mail from my friend Sue: Hockney on Turner Watercol...

(4x4) Watercolor crayon (Neocolor). I just liked the colors in this one, the triangle of blue, and how Porter didn't make the trees nat...

Two Fairfield Porter watercolors from the catalog to a Sept. 1985 Hirschl & Adler Modern gallery show. I guess I must've picked it u...

(5x7) (5x7) I've had the page of watercolor studies propped up in my room and was about to file them away as is, then thought, since I...

Three little 5.5.x7.5 starts made on my obligatory one-hour afternoon break from work! What's almost as good as painting? Reading abo...