laura's watercolors

(9x12) This is Peter's daughter, Melyssa. I took the picture, in which her eyes are in deep shadow, so I'm inventing a bit. I start...

(12x17) I feel a temptation to fiddle with the hair more, but in the spirit of the good decisions I made yesterday, I'm not going to. ...

(12x17) I took this picture of my boyfriend's son's girlfriend's six-year-old daughter, Cassidy, this weekend. Cassidy feels co...

8x12 I'm collecting some photos for Ted Nuttall's class and borrowed this one of my mother's brother Bob taken around the time ...

(9x12) This could use a bit more tweaking, but here, with apologies to his parents, is my portrait of my friends' firstborn, Ned. The ...

 (10x12) My workshop with Ted Nuttall in Rehobeth, Del., will begin in less than 10 days. (There's an interview with Nuttall in the summ...

  My friends Lisa and Mike came down for a couple days late last week, and gave me the perfect excuse to ditch work and enjoy the beautifu...

(6x10) Trying to get back into the swing of painting, if not daily, frequently. Once you get out of the habit, it's hard to work it ba...

(10x15) These are my parents, Peg and Dan. I took the picture I'm working from when I was working in Manhattan, their hometown, and th...

(9x12) I haven't had much time, or, more accurately, haven't made time, to paint lately. I've had a lot of work to do--and may...

  Ever seen the TV show "Worst Week Ever"? That's this week for me: every day one or more things goes wrong on one or more ...

(11x15) More fishing boats. I feel like I've lost a little energy in this one, though there are parts of it I like. I'm going to c...

(6x8) A small diversion from work.

  (6x9)   (6x9)  Weds. I went up the road to visit my dear good friends Mike and Lisa, both of whom do all kinds of things, and do them ...

(11x15) I added more rigging to and behind the Lucky Danny (I know it looks like Lucky Penny , which is also okay!) and contemplated doin...