My good friend, Annie, loves to raise chickens as pets. She can feed them by hand and take their eggs while they are roaming around her yard. Their names are always interesting: Geegeet, Peaches, Henny Penny, Bonnie...I also had a great opportunity to take care of the...

What I've been up to lately has been quite a lot of things, but in the art department, I've been teaching my very first watercolor class! We have been learning the rules of watercolor, and experimenting with different ideas, such as textures in a painting,...

This painting feels like one big mistake. As I painted the background, I felt like it was getting too muddy, and the daffodil stems and leaves all felt far too organized and I couldn't seem to get the colors quite right. Nevertheless I thought perhaps it would look...

I decided to enter my art to the Connecticut Watercolor Society Exhibition this past month. It was being held at the Silpe Gallery at the University of Hartford. This is the first time I've ever entered a painting into the CWS, and if two get accepted then I can...

  Who needs oil painting portraits when watercolors are SO much cooler? I've taken on the challenge of portraiture, and like I've always said, the more paintings I create the better they get.  This is the first in a series of three examples - a black and white...

I was looking through some old paintings and discovered a piece that was unfinished. It was a few years ago when my mom was on the phone with me and said "Nobody is going to buy these cars, Laura. Paint something else!" So I did go on to other things, but this car was...

I recall one of my professors saying in class that he loves it when an artist paints when he is starving. There is a difference in work, so I hear, when an artist paints because he wants to, versus painting because he has to. Perhaps you can tell the difference? After...

Hi guys! My art has made it to a gallery again: City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport! They had a member's show, so I submitted my artwork for it. Five of them are up in the gallery - my 3 cars, the mailboxes, and my rose painting. The rose was actually being shown at the...

Dear Friends and Family, It’s been a really long time since I’ve sent an art newsletter, and I deeply apologize. However, I have some very good reasons! Lots of things have been happening in the past half a year, like moving (twice…actually it will be three times in...