laura's watercolors

 7.5x11 My friend Karoline found a wonderfully shady path to the beach where we painted the other morning. I wish I had made those ...

11x15 Where did July go? Between the heat wave (no AC), an unusually heavy workload (why doesn't that happen in winter?!), trying...

11x15 Started another painting of some little houses along the back bays here. I made a tactical error right off the bat, painting ...

 7x10 I forgot all about my plein air class last week! But I made it this week, if a little late. I set up and started drawing Burc...

 14x18 It's weird but this scene has even more hard edges than the previous one, which I thought didn't work for that reason,...

11x14 Every day is not a winner, as my mother used to say. I like some things about this painting--the grasses, the muddy shorel...

11x15 The South Jersey Plein Air painters met at the Stone Harbor Yacht Club and though I had work to do, I went, because I thought...

11x15 I joined a plein air painting group and when I met them at the Cape May Harbor I was not sure what to paint. Settled on these w...

11x15 I had intended to paint just the brown house and the dune grasses; I was going to put the ocean in the background ... But once ...

11x14 My second week painting at Burcham's farm. This is the rear view of the farmhouse, which sits atop a hill. Next week I hope...

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...