laura's watercolors

A pleasant morning out...last week! These old wooden storage lockers on the beach caught my eye. Have yet to finish for ground. I don...

Trying to get a little PA group together. This morning's location was the Cape May-Lewes ferry terminal. I arrived at 8:30 but was pa...

Cleaning out my flat files, I found a couple of old, unfinished paintings that I thought I might be able to salvage despite their problems b...

A subject I never tire of.

These are the two palettes I use most frequently, with my messy notes on what the colors are. I also have two little plastic travel palette...

Fourth of July weekend turned into Fourth of July week. Did a little painting... These are trumpet vines I picked in an empty lot. I have a...

I painted these last summer on the deck: very pleasant painting days. In the third, unfinished, one, I'm really having trouble getting ...

Had an unusual weather event here this week: a microburst, which, if I understand correctly, is a small area of dangerously high winds. My b...

American goldfinch and scarlet tanager. I actually had many goldfinches at my feeder this spring, first time. Have yet to see a tanager. ...

These are hanging, along with four more of my paintings, in a group show in Cape May; the show opens tomorrow.

I had always been afraid to paint fishing boats: all that stuff rising from the deck. But I tried one--just trying to paint what I saw simp...

A day (half a day, actually) of plein air painting in Cape May, NJ. Cloudy and breezy conditions favored smaller paintings; these were done ...

I bought a couple of these glass bouys to paint. I love the color of the glass and the shapes and rhythms of the line. Need to work on the ...

Have been wanting for some time to do a series of sparrows. Started with chipping and white-throated, two I often see in my yard.

The daffodils are long gone, the irises nearly done. Next, hoping for my peonies and lilies to come through.

A few little value stdies I did in a tent class. I'm not a great one for value studies, but doing these, more than helping me plan valu...

Entered this in a local juried show this weekend. No sale. :-(

Hello. It's been a long time. I have been painting now and then, and often think of getting the blog going again and, as important, get...

  (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   ...