laura's watercolors

This is what I've got done so far on the kimono-style cardigan we're knitting in my class: have to finish the back piece by Saturda...

 (9x12) It seems to happen every year: the magnolia, forsythia, and daffodils are all in bloom, but every day my painting time is reallocat...

 (7x11) St Mary's By-the-Sea is a retreat for nuns on the best piece of real estate on the Jersey Cape. I've painted it many times...

 (7x10) From a reference photo at DPW . I couldn't get this photo to appear as it really is: it's a bit too dark here ... which un...

(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 . ...