laura's watercolors

5x7 It's been hot and humid here; not great bike riding weather, but I did get a short ride, and a quick painting.

5x7 Brandywine Shoal Light, a favorite subject of mine.  I drew four lighthouses in the Delaware Bay--two one the Jersey side, thi...

 10x14 Expanded the view a bit on the plein air painting from yesterday.

8x8 A little early morning plein air painting with my friends Diane and Karoline; the three of us will be exhibiting our plein air ...

10x10 I took a photo of this young woman leaving the beach last summer. (For once, I didn't get caught!) There was a bike rack an...

 10x8 My plein air class decided to meet indoors yesterday afternoon because the forecast called for thunderstorms, so I decided to s...

 8x8 I signed up for a six-week plein air class that meets Tuesday afternoons at Burcham's Farm , about half hour north of me, on...

 11x15 We, and our paintings, got rained on a bit, but we kept on painting. In my case, the raindrops added texture to the rusting hu...

 (detail) Above I cropped out the part of the painting that I didn't like (and so didn't finish): the red boat really got awa...

 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 ...