laura's watercolors

                                 5x7                                  5x7 I set up a little still life on the kitche...

Another bird painted in class with Salty Water Art. Taking the class means I'll get my paints wet at least once ...

                             7x10                                  7x11 A couple of quick, uncomplicated paintings. ...

Sometimes, many times?, the value study is better than the painting. Eliminating the complication of color, and the ...

After messing up the painting with the glowing washes, I revisited this subject, maybe with more restraint. Also began to think ...

Here are the value studies from the sketches I posted previously. The one above I think worked out pretty well. I may move on to...

 I was pretty happy with the first washes I put down ... but I didnt know what to do next. Next night, I plunged in: bad idea.  ...

Another painting from a photo I took kayaking in the back bays. I kept the background wet and grayed, but it still competes too ...

A killdeer and a yellow-crowned night heron painted in a class with Ian de Hoog at Winslow Art Center. It's funn...

Small sketches made from old  family photos.  Next: value studies. Then: who knows?

My brother and I camped at Assateague National Seashore in Maryland for a few days this week; this was our fourth ye...

A tern in flight and a few gull shapes that I painted without drawing. I'd like to gain the kind of familiarity ...

Gina and I got back last night from our 3- day plein air workshop with Bill Rogers at the Art Lab in Parrsboro, NS,...

Painted from a photo I took while kayaking. I have a few more-- like a tern on a "no wake" marker-- that I'm looki...

                                  6x9 These bumpers always attract my gaze ... must be that orange color. In this case, there we...

Sketching this a.m. on the grounds of the Fishing Creek School. It's a pretty and historic building, but today t...

Adding a few colors--hematite, quinacridone purple, and quinacridone burnt scarlet--to my palette because I like the mixes they ...