laura's watercolors

Yesterday Peter and I were fishing for striper bass in "the rips," where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, about 3 miles...

"sleep safe until tomorrow" --william carlos williams Back from my wonderful trip with my dear friend Robin. This morning I took m...

(7x11) (7x11) (10x14) I'm taking a little vacation next week--a train ride to Wisconsin, with a two-day stopover in Chicago. I'm ...

(2x3) (2x3) A couple of miscellaneous distractions ... just little scenes I work on for a couple of minutes when I'm taking a break f...

New Mexico Landscape , 1929 (14x20) Entrance to Hondo Canyon , 1930 (15.5x21) Two New Mexico watercolors by my favorite watercolorist, Joh...

(approx 2x4) The in-progress scene below is the view from the back of Mabel Dodge Luhan's house in Taos, looking into a Native reserva...

(7.5x11) (5x6) Such a dark background scares me: I'm not so good at darks. In the first attempt (top) I tried to follow advice in a bo...

(5x7) I think I'm about three days behind the deadline, but I wanted to do this anyway: it's the reference photo posted last Wednes...

(10x14) (10x14) Two exercises from my first watercolor class, which I took at Cooper Union--my dad's alma mater--after work. Must'v...

(3x4) (3x4) While I was unpacking my beach bag yesterday I found these two sketches in my small Moleskine that I did sitting on the end of t...

No painting Sunday, just fishing and sitting on the beach.

(4x6) (4x6) (4x6) Three of the six small two-object still lifes I'm doing for a Wet Canvas project. I painted the second two this mor...

(4x6) Here's another fine mess I've gotten myself into! The Wet Canvas Still Life Duo project sounded so easy: six small two-objec...

(5x7) I think this river is the same one O'Keeffe painted in Blue River ; it could be the Rio Chama River, but I'm not sure. During...

(4x6) I took a picture of this woman walking a toddler down to the water on Labor Day weekend--I edited out the crowds!; a hackenyed subjec...