laura's watercolors

(5x7) A small white flower painting: this subject never loses it appeal. Below, two done (except now I see I need to darken slightly the...

(7x10) Freehand attempts to paint the same bouquet of flowers using predominantly warm and predominantly cool palettes. I didn...

  (11x15) From a beautiful reference photo by Sylvia Lang at Paint My Photo. I think I'd like to try it again, holding on to more wh...

Three 5x7 fishing boat scenes in three stages: done, not-quite done, nowhere-near done.

(5x7) From a DPW photo. I don't usually use mask; I can never seem to adequately integrate the white it leaves back into the painti...

  (7x11) More magnollias, from photos. I can't wait for my magnolias to bloom this year--I now have two. I started this intending to...

(11x15) I did a 1-day workshop yesterday with my Monday teacher, Marie Natale, She has a showing hanging in Hammonton, NJ, about 90 minu...

  (5x9) Last summer a white gladiola bloomed next to my deck. I had no idea how it got there--I had never much cared for gladiolas, but I...

  (10x12) From a reference at A nos pinceaux . I love this pitcher, so Cezanne-ish. I spent much of last night trying to acquire one like...

  (7x11) More white on white. I found this one, which was more subtly lighted, more difficult that the magnolia. But I am enjoying the wh...

  (4x8) I painted this for the Daily Paintworks's White on White challenge using Mary Van Arsdel's photo at Paint My Photo . ...

A little practice just putting down paint, trying to remember to press down on the belly of the brush. My art room is so cluttered I can...

  (11x15) Two paintings I've been nervously dabbing away at ... I wish I could just sit down and keep at them until they were done, b...

(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...