laura's watercolors

 10x15 There were some spectacular ever-changing clouds at the beach on this morning. So beautiful it seemed pointless to try to pa...

  11x15 Went back to Mount Vernon Ave to try again. This time I made a loose sketch of the scene, which I think helped me try to a...

 11x15 The Red Store is a very popular--and very high end--cafe and small grocer. Back in the day it was a mom and pop general store;...

11x15 Joe Milligan , who is teaching a plein air class here for the summer, brought us to this little tucked away spot, just a bloc...

9x12 This is the scene I'm always told would be a big seller. So, typically of me, I painted it, finally, after hanging my pa...

 8x10 Pleasant day painting at the state park with J oe Milligan , who has been teaching a plein air class here this summer. One of...

10x14 Another try at my idea to paint shells in big washes, with strong values. This one came out a little soft. I was hoping to pa...

10x14 Back to a subject I feel a little more confident about. And you can't go wrong with blue and orange. I think I am finally...

 11x15 What can I say. A favorite subject, but, again, I tried to paint what I saw--gray water--but I feel I shoul...

 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.