laura's watercolors

Cleaning out my flat files, looking for some paintings or ideas for paintings for two small group shows I'll be in this summer in West...

  Painted with my friend Mike last week--we were both rusty, our paints dry. I wanted to do a simple  setup: a twig in a glass. Mike ad...

7x11 As always happens when I haven't painted in a while, I come back pretty stiff ...  Need to paint more to loosen up!

18x22 My good friends bought a house in Fla., and they have big expanses of wall to fill. So, I am going to try to do a big painting ...

Hello! I'm sorry I haven't been posting: in January I started getting "network error" messages every time I tried to pos...

Photos from a birdwalk I took yesterday with NJ Audubon. 3 hours in 30 degree temps. I almost didn't go, but it wasn't windy so I th...

My brother has several peppermills--a couple of which I swiped over a year ago to paint. Maybe I'll be able to return them soon.

That's Spanish for "robin" and my nickname for my dear friend Robin. Before I started painting this I was looking at some of ...

I took some close-ups of the shells in my banner and I want to do a series. I'm picturing mingled washes and great shadow shapes. This ...

I painted this years ago when I was painting with a still life group. They were an ambitious group, and with them I painted bigger--this is ...

it doesnt't work out so well! When I painted the background, I wanted to keep it a cool gray, then I floated in a touch of raw sienna h...

I hardly ever use masking fluid. (Though I will sometimes, if I think of it, use a wax crayon, which isn't removable.) Probably I don...

There are so many great watercolor and ink paintings of black cats online where the artist lets the flowing of the color define the shapes o...

6x6 Back to fishing boats ... Not very Christmasy though. i should've hung a wreath on one!

My photogenic boy! Not worrying about getting the stripes just right has been a real help!

Lately, whenever I drew a cardinal, it seemed "off," but I didn't  know why. So I drew lines on my reference photo to see wha...

Several people asked about the snowy backgrounds in my recent bird paintings, so I thought I'd do a step-by-step. I painted the backgro...

I couldn't tell if I did too much or too little here, then realized it's a bit of both. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to see it...

A gray, rainy Sunday here. I decided to take the day off from working and do some painting. (Since I work at home I have to convince myself ...