laura's watercolors

(2x3) (2x3) I got the idea to do setups like the one with the cantaloupe and lime, but using other objects that would reverse the color re...

I had company and it rained all weekend--a nightmare when you have a house at the shore (happily, they all played cards) and I didn't g...

Here are all four studies together.

(5x8) Happy Bloom's Day. Someday I hope to be saying that from Dublin! From Molly Bloom 's speech: ...the sun shines for you he sai...

(5x7) Three more W. B. Yeats pictures, from photos I found on Google photos ... For some reason, I couldn't be as free and easy with Ye...

(7x11) Today is William Butler Yeats's birthday; he was born 6/13/1865. I planned to do four studies of Yeats at different ages, but we...

So much rain, so much work to finish ... but I did get up and out on the bike early (for me!) this morning. It was sunny when I set out, but...

(4x7) A colored pencil sketch of the Delaware Bay from one of the streets near my house. Last night's yoga was invigorating--I woke up ...

(4x5) My day 2 Sketchercise plans were called on account of rain. (It seems to me that since my resolve to get out and bike more, we have b...

My inaugural Sketchercise post. I just joined Sketchercise, a network started by Katherine Tyrrell , of the always fabulous, thought-provoki...

(5x7) (5x7) Okay, even I'm getting sick of this setup! I didn't learn how to paint a green pepper--what was that Hawthorne quote, ...

(5x7) Vegetable bin still life #2. I keep trying to define the green pepper more--some people never learn!--but in my indecisiveness let it...

(5x7) Vegetable bin still life. Green peppers, which look so simple to paint with their fluted forms, always confound me. I tried too hard...

(7x11) This weekend cleaning out the shed I found a blue and white striped tablecloth. It was densely striped, so I left a lot out here. I ...

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...