laura's watercolors

"Painting is an island whose shores I have skirted." --Chardin

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

final daffodils '13

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(11x15) The last of the daffodil (paintings ... the daffodils are long gone). The workshop with Mel is fun, and, of course, mentally exh...
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Monday, May 06, 2013

iris

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So much more fun than tulips! :-) (half sheet) This morning begins a 4-day workshop with Mel Stabin in Cape May, NJ. 
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

tulip

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(9x12) Struggled--though not much and not for long before I gave up and moved on to irises--with tulips, as I do every year. Other people...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013

lemons and white jug again

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(9x12) Wanted to have another go at the jug, to try to get the ellipse at the mouth right ... "Try" being the operative word. ...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

"milk"

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(11x15) I like this jug, the lettering, which is not so long or complicated as to be a chore, and the little jughandles. I regret that d...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

more daffodils

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 (11x15) More daffodils. I never tire of them, but you think I'd learn something about yellow: I think it's the color I understand...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

daffodils

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(half sheet) In progress ...  
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

lemons and white jug

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(8x10) This was a happy accident. I was going to paint this setup on a fresh piece of white paper when I saw a sheet that I had at some t...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

prima fiore

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(11x15) My first try at daffodils this spring. I have a few different kinds ... Right now very delicate, small two-bloomed white daffodil...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

easter lily

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(7x9) Every year I buy an Easter lily to paint; it's a challenge, but a pleasurable one, getting lost in those leaves ... I like trum...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

little, still, life

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(6x8) A "simple" still life that turned out to be not-so-simple. Not for someone so out of practice. From a photo for a (April...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

complements of spring

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Freehand sketches of flowers from my yard. Irises in March!          
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

underway knitting

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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...
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