laura's watercolors

  I bought these chunky rocks glasses at a discount store; each has a blob of colored glass in the base, which is reflected above a...

 (6x8) More attempts to keep my hand in. I'm ready to move on to another subject; these are getting stale ... But haven't d...

 (5x7) (5x7) Little simple still lifes to help me get back in the practice of painting regularly.

 (8x9) One of the best things about taking class is having to do things you normally wouldn't (... or does that sound masochistic...

Getting back to painting class when I can. It inspires me and makes me feel like I'm learning, progressing. And it's fun too. We...

Sailing students. (photo by Laura)

  8x8 Our plein air group has been braving the 90-plus temps once a week. Last Wednesday we met in Cape May Point for a morning of ...

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 ...