laura's watercolors

Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman. I made these little paintings from photos found at www.Whitmanarchive.org , where there are dozens of photogra...

(7x11) (Or, Portrait of Self with Botox: the top lip got a little too full! I have what I think of as the characteristically Irish thin upp...

(7x11) One thing I learned the last two days painting apples is that I need to set a time limit on myself to keep from re- and overworking ...

(7x11) Another what's-at-hand still life. I wasn't happy with the middle apple, so decided to try to make the one on the left the f...

(7x11) This is the kind of simple subject I find so appealing, and that the "daily painters" all do so well, but that I feel inse...

(5x7) Not much time for painting this weekend--really too bad because we had beautiful skies with dramatic clouds!--with a full house and a...

(4x7) While I was painting this, I kept thinking of Charles Hawthorne's advice: Never try to repeat a success! Though this lady looks c...

A little page of gray-making. I seem to have the best luck with blue-orange combos (at least these appeal to me the most) ... and should st...

(5x7) I should know (myself) better than to complete a drawing and not jump right in with the painting. Having finished my two 11x15 sketch...

Drawings of people on the beach, awaiting painting. (11x15) Actually I started on this one, but messed it up right off the bat (just as I w...

Thank you for all your well-wishes re the workshop--I missed blogging and especially visiting your blogs! It'll take me the rest of the ...

Virgin Islands Hawk Mountain, Pa Ontario I'm back and exhausted from my five-day workshop. The teacher, Ken Hosmer , was really very ...

(4x4) In response to Vivien's challenge to paint the sky on her blog Paintings, Prints and Stuff ; Vivien does the most beautiful sky ...

"Don't learn how to do things, keep on inquiring how." -- Hawthorne on Painting (11x15) Ta-da. I took this picture outside, ...

(11x15) I previously tried the middle and the freehand way with my coconut palms; last night I began on a version using more planning (or a...