laura's watercolors

"Painting is an island whose shores I have skirted." --Chardin

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

intentions ...

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Brought stuff to do art with friends in FL, but it's been too hot. So today, my last day, I painted along with a couple of P...
Monday, July 28, 2025

visiting

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...my friend Robin in beautiful Dunnellen, FL. It's been a whirlwind but we did a little sketching under the liv...
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

shells

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                       9x12 Oyster shells and a mussel shell. I drew these loosely with a brush ... Hadn't planned: the shel...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

travel kit

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Next week going to see my brother and my good friend of long standing; they live about 1 hour apart in FL. There'll be kayak...

classwork

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                      9x12                        10x7 Painted these in an online class with Megan Swoyer . Megan...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

still life

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                       8x10 Fell off my reference-photo-day wagon. Not happy about it-- I hate to lose momentum: too muc...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

classwork

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                      8x12 A scene in Cornwall painted in an Artefacto class on seascapes with R. Thorn. The lesson was in two p...
Friday, July 11, 2025

ref photo

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                      7x10 Another Scotland scene. I think I would enjoy painting Scotland every day. But, for the sake of my ch...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

classwork

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                     14x10                      10x10 Marsh scenes painted in a class with Megan Swoyer at Greenbush...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

ref photo

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                         7x10 Back to Scotland. Water, rocks, grasses ... What could be better.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

$2 bouquet

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                         8x10 Didn't get to my ref photo painting yesterday. But I went out to get some heat-tolerant herbs ...
Monday, July 07, 2025

ref photo

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                       8x8 Another from my Scotland refs. I think this is outside Mallaig, but I'm not sure. Very wet so I d...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

gulls

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                     7x9 Unfortunately my front gull looks like he has a broken back-- the result of me trying to convey wind-ru...
Saturday, July 05, 2025

ref photo

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                       6x8 Another from a photo I took in Scotland last spring. I developed a fetish for chimneypots. I think th...
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Friday, July 04, 2025

ref photo

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Today's reference photo painting. Wish I were back in the Highlands.
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Thursday, July 03, 2025

ref photos

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.                      6x8ish The 2nd and 3rd day of my challenge to do something with a reference photo from Scotla...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

sketchbook

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Someone online recommended this book, published in 1997 and I was able to get a used copy. I like the author's s...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

ref photos

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.                     7x9 A couple of friends and I were complaining the other day that we all have so many ref photos but we ne...
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Sunday, June 29, 2025

10 minutes

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Have been admiring the sweep of this geranium. This morning I made an exercise of painting it: no drawing, except the vase!; pai...
Friday, June 27, 2025

shells

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A couple of shells. This is multimedia paper; I think they come out better on watercolor paper.
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