laura's watercolors

(9x4.5) Last week's Daily Paintworks Challenge was to paint something using Pantone's "Color of the Year," Tangerine T...

(8x10) My teacher, Marie Natale , brought value scales to class for us. I have had a value scale (or two) laying around my studio ... but...

(11x15)   (11x15) Two works in (barely discernible) progress: the boats are from a photo by Ruth Archer at Paint My Photo ; the tropi...

(8x10) My second go at the Rookie Painter challenge. There are some overworked bits, especially the base of the bottom bowl ... just c...

(7x10) The current (until 1/16) challenge at Rookie Painter . There are a number of really beautiful interpretations of the reference pho...

(5x7) I seem to be running out of steam on my birds, so maybe it's time to find a new subject for a while.   (5x7) My friend C...

(10x14, pencil) Feeling very unenergetic lately and unable to get to the paints, but from now on when I feel that way, I'm going to ...

On a whim, I moved my birdfeeders from the sideyard to the back, where I can see them from the kitchen window and door ...what a good...

  (5x7) Happy Holidays.

  (5x7) (5x7) For these two I decided to tackle the background first ... since it always seems to be a problem later. The bluetit...

(5x7) Neither of these is quite finished ... In the chickadee one I want to add something to the upper left area and for the robin, cal...

(5x7 each) Painted alla prima, all in one go, on some 90 lb. paper I have had for awhile ... I used to use it for quick sketches in...

(7x10 each) I could not get the shape of this sparrow right and had to keep adjusting his outline, which necessitated the use of some...

(4x9) (4x9) A couple of little winter scenes done before I went to Chincoteague last weekend. As usually happens, since I've be...