laura's watercolors

 11x15 My painting friend Bill Yerkes is in town for a few days (you can see his paintings here ). We spent a few hours at Spircer...

 4x6 More little tries at beach grass and brush. I like the analogous colors. Hoping that--even though I won't be spending 10,0...

 11x14 Finished. Although, as I often do, I see I neglected to go out to the edge on the roof ... I'll fix that later! And maybe ...

 5x7 Beginning to think about what I might paint for the little group shows I'll be in this August; thinking of subjects that mig...

5x7 Took a bike ride along the bay yesterday--each time I do I ask myself, Why don't I do this everyday? (Answer: Earning a living ...

 9x12 The first time I drew this, when I started painting I found the paper was defective. So I drew over it in black marker anad tra...

 8x5 For the last week, whenever I took a break from my hideous workload, I was out in the yard weeding and putting down mulch. I ...

 8x10 I continue to, sporadically, toy with my idea for a series of paintings of the shells seen in my header, above. I always get ...

 11x14 Saturday afternoon my friends Diane, Karoline, and I went to a farm in West Cape May for our first plein air outing of the sea...

9x12 From a photo I took in Florida last year. This heron was standing on some rocks watching the fishermen ... Got some pix of them to...

 12x18 HP Finished this one yesterday. I think the one on the right, the first one I painted is more successful; the one on the left ...

12x16 hot press I have a nice size bed of bearded and Dutch irises, but when I came home a giant-size iris was blooming in my backyar...

  6x8 I always plan to paint when I'm in FL, but rarely get more than one day in! On this day, my friend Mike and I went to one o...

 14x20 Earlier in the week I met my friend Shelby in her hometown of Washington, DC. What a beautiful city. We went to several art mu...

Mason jars and lemons--two things I can never get tired of painting! 16x20

 9x12 I don't know what the variety is called by these double-headed blooms are so small--about 2 inches in diameter--and delicat...

 16x20 (Sorry this photo isn't so good!) I love this time of spring when every week something new is blooming: this week the bear...

  9x12 Another one: couldn't finish.  It's a nice scene though and I'll probably try it again, but with  more sky next ...

 14x18  Dipped into this a bit over the week, but couldn't finish ... Sometimes I just can't seem to push through to the end....

12x12 Lately everytime I paint something, I feel I have start over! I wasn't happy with my attempt to paint dappled sunlight in t...