laura's watercolors

  (6x8) Patterns always give me trouble; too impatient, I guess. Maybe with more practice ... I painted this on a little scrap of pre...

White-capped tanager (top) and blue throat drawings for Paint Colorful Birds for Fun. And, at my feeder:   Baltimore oriole   ...

  (7x10)   (7x10)  This week's bird for Facebook's Paint Colorful Birds for Fun is the Southeast Asian silver-eared mesia. ...

  Page of cat sketches and ...  find the cat in the laundry

  (9x12) I don't know why I have so much trouble with tulips! The only solution is to paint more tulips.

  (7x9)  More of the Laysan albatross for Facebook's Paint Colorful Birds for Fun. I can see I need to darken the foreground albatr...

(4x6) What a beautiful bird! Common to southeastern Australia ... so lucky me to have the Internet and see a bird I'd never see othe...

  (5x7) Back to the beloved subject for a bit ...   (5x7)

  (4x7) What a pleasure it is to draw: I always seem to forget ... It can be very meditative, exploratory ... It would be nice to br...

 (5x7) Violet-eared waxbill Visit Facebook's Paint Colorful Birds for Fun to see some really gorgeous paintings of this beauti...

 (5x7) (5x7) Once again, I find I've neglected my blog ... I didn't do much painting over the holiday season for one, and...

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,...