laura's watercolors

Painted here at the beginning of last year, with mostly disastrous results, and took the picture this is painted from. There was a ton of ...

Also, very glacially, working on postcards featuring birds, using a gouache and colored pencil technique taught online by Val Webb . I like...

Plein air painting yesterday afternoon. Was going to skip it because of the heat, but glad I didn't: there was no shade, but a lovely b...

Decided to try a little painting on the deck, such a perfect day. Until I got swarmed by mosquitos ... The geraniums were painted without ...

Took a few painting supplies on my bike ride this morning. By the time I stopped to paint, half the water had leaked out all over everythin...

I began to try to break out of my slump with these tiny imagined landscapes ... Funny that of the few things I've done so far they...

Started this on location at a nesrby farm. Now poking away intermittently at home! In October I'll be in an Alvaro Castagnet workshop,...

Another ( nearly) year of no blogging and hardly any painting. Going to try to change that-- no matter how awkward and disappointing these...

9x12 I'm not 100 percent sure what kind of bird this is ... a willet, perhaps?

Another painting from one of my photos. And my completed homemade sketchbooks--two with Coptic binding, one with Japanese stab binding...

From a photo I took last summer. Didn't get to the beach much this summer, for some reason. Always regret not having had enough fun wh...

Another sketch of beachgoers. Feel it could use some punching up ... But I'll leave it and call it a hazy day.

  Working on making a few little watercolor journals: two with Coptic binding, one with a simple Japanese stab binding. Also, a little...

I set up a little still life that I thought looked so nice, simple and bright. But I couldn't translate it to the paper (one mistake w...

From a picture I took of an oyster farmer returning to the dock. Overworked the dark greens a bit--they kept drying too light. And I was ho...

Yesterday was the last day of the summer flounder season. Didn't catch any flounder, but got a couple of nice reference photos. ...

Didn't finish this little sketch--struggled too long with it as it is--because the paper was not cooperating. I have this problem with...

Once in a while I get an urge to try painting clouds. There are so many watercolor techniques to practice: color mixing, hard and soft edge...

Watercolor with black and white ink.

I have numerous--beyond numerous, really--photos of NM: Espanola, Santa Fe, and my favorite, Taos. They always seem too daunting to paint! ...