laura's watercolors

(5x7) The current challenge from Karin Jurick's Different Strokes from Different Folks --"current" only until 6 p.m. tonight, ...

Here I am, deviated septum and all. This was the first portrait I did from a photo, rather than looking in the mirror ... It's certainl...

(5x7) Two little self-portraits I'm trying out for David Lobenberg's Global Self-Portrait Love In: 9/10 is the deadline for sending...

(7x10 sheet) We spent Saturday morning at the Lewes farm market, held on the grounds of the Historical Society. It was rather daunting, cro...

I'm off to the ferry this a.m., heading to Delaware for a couple of days of plein air painting on Cape Henlopen with friends Shelby, Ca...

(5x7 each) Scenes from earlier trips to the Virgin Islands with Lisa and Mike. That's Mike at the helm. I have a picture of me and Lisa...

with miskit miskit removed I seldom use miskit--I'm not a planner, and usually if I think to leave a space white, I'll paint aroun...

(4x9) Testing out a new sheet on my Sennelier block with a little sunflower picture. I didn't notice until just now how the page seems ...

(7x11 each) Everyone went out fishing early this morning, so I literally missed the boat. I have never been a morning person. I wanted to ...

(5x7) Small watercolors done from one of my sketches ... This paper is dreadful: the top one is my favorite, Fabriano, and the bottom Sennel...

(5x7) For the past several years I'd been telling everyone that I was going to spend my 50th birthday--this December--in the Virgin Isl...

Saturday afternoon Peter somehow persuaded me to go the beach; I must have been feeling very accommodating ... And it turned out to be a rev...

(5x7) Karin Jurick's current DSFDF challenge ends today at 6 p.m. EST. I started this last night; added the Virgin-Island-like shapes ...

Yesterday I took a bike ride along the bay and made these two watercolor sketches in my Maruman folding sketchbook. The paper has a nice tex...

(5x7 sheet) In the 1880s Winslow homer made a few little ink sketches of people in rowboats; I copied the drawings and added color. Sunday ...

Everyone's out fishing and dinner's all prepped. So I took the Wyeth and Homer watercolor books I've been looking at, an 11x15 ...

(7x11) Forgive me, Blogger; it's been one week since my last post. No penance; just a resolution to paint more. I've been going thr...