laura's watercolors

(10x12) A painting of a great place to eat in Cape May. I'm not happy with the tree--as I feared would be the case. I wanted a lighte...

  (8x10) On better paper this time ... After I painted the girls' hair I thought of a show from when I was a kid, Petticoat Junctio...

(6x8) From a reference photo by Ruth Archer at Paint My Photo. Early on (see below) I was ready to abandon this; then I realized the ref...

I could go in and do more on the rocks, but I'm holding off ... and will consider it finished for now.

(8x10) The gull above was painted on 140lb. Fabriano paper; the two below on some 86lb. Lanaquarelle paper I had, which I figured would d...

(7x10) Picked a few lilies and trumpet vines from an abandoned lot: I love the shapes and colors of both. I had hoped to do several little...

(8x10) Another Brandywine Light painting, in progress. I used mask to save the railings, so I there's a little time pressure to finis...

 (5x7)  (5x7) Looking through my reference photos to make a few smallish pictures to donate to a raffle next month to help out one o...

    (12x8) This is from a photo of beach huts by Ruth Archer at Paint My Photo. I love the subject.

 (9x12) I bought a set of Cheap Joe's soft-sided sketchbooks, thinking I'd devote each one to a different subject/experience: one ...

These are little (9x12-ish) studies from the workshop I took last week. They're about the ratio of paint to water (I always have too m...

Our plein air workshop got rained in on Friday. We painted impromptu still lifes in the Chalfonte Hotel's not-lit-for-painting dining...

Some photos and paintings from a two-day plein air workshop I took last June with my teacher Marie Natale . I'll be joining her works...

 (7x11) Grays are so beautiful. Why don't I mix them more often? p.s. Alas, my lawn-mowing neighbor is not just being neighborly; he...

(10x15) Another go at these two ... both unfinished: I just get to a point where I don't know what to do next. Which I am now taking ...