laura's watercolors

I want to thank Rhonda for asking me to join in the world blog. Rhonda and I have some things in common in our art, a desire to learn a...

 Spent Thursday painting with my friend Mike, working on some holiday cards: snow, evergreens, pine cones.

  (11x15) This is from a photo I found on Paint My Photo ... I was drawn to the very limited palette. I tried breaking the image down ...

  (4x6) Just a little practicing ... I love the neutral color of the trunks: I started with a light wash of yellow, added a bit of a co...

  (7x11) Homework (I'm barely keeping up, and definitely not getting any work done for extra credit) for Sketchbook Skool: a tana...

  Looking ahead to doing some winter- or holiday-themed painting ... I have a few photos of sledders, and painted this little boy intendi...

  (3x3) Ink and watercolor. And here, at last, a bit of an assignment for Sketchbook Skool: a continuous line drawing.   Next, I...

  (7x9) Still managing to spend a bit of time in the art room, nearly daily ...  I also signed up for a session of Sketchbook Skool,...

  (8x10) Many sparrows--mostly song, house and tree--at my feeders lately. I won't see white-throated and fox sparrows until it...

  (11x15)  Another cat photo from Paint My Photo, this one by Dracaena. Trying to show the details and form but not add so much that I ...

  (7x10) I saw this photo in one of my knitting pattern books ... I usually shy away from profiles, but I'm attracted to ones like ...

  (11x15)  From a photo by Cheri Speri on Paint My Photo.  I'm not sure this is quite done; now I think I need to adjust the line...

(7x9) From a photo by Farbenhexe on Paint My Photo. So far, I have been managing to get into the art room daily, even though I s...

   (7x9) As happens now and again (actually, with enough regularity that I should be able to anticipate and compensate), my life, or at ...

  Back to birds. My trees are full of warblers.   There's a persimmon tree at the end of my street that always looks so lov...

  Negative painting: more work on darks ... If I can get them dark enough, the flowers should really pop.

   (12x8)  A little practice on chickens ... trying to darken my darks, and to see them better.   (4x6)  Noticed the other day th...

  (5x7) These little ornamental gourds are fun to paint, and quick, which is good since I find myself, once again, with little time...

  (7x11) Started this outdoors a few days ago, but only had an hour to spend ... which may turn out to have been a good thing. And,...