Laura Riley

I so enjoy your positivity.

You had me at “cemetery near the house.”

I did enjoy this tutorial. Thank you, Sandra!

What an amazing artist!

Thanks! I’ll give this technique a try.

Charlie, your essay was very fine. Thanks for writing it. And I’m in awe that you can paint fireworks – it seems impossible to me.

I am celebrating the new friends and artists I have met along my journey to become a watercolor artist. You all have enriched me in ways hard to describe.

I’ll tell you what defeated my attempts at plein air painting – wind! Gusty, hot wind that dried everything in seconds, coupled with intense heat and sun.

Jill – your style of landscape painting is one I admire greatly and would emulate. Thanks for sharing, especially images of your paintings and explanations of how to achieve similar textures.

Annisette, thank you for sharing your images, and a little of the story on how you paint them. I was especially intrigued when you said you build up slowly and spend a lot of time on the light values before moving on to mediums and darks. That must be why your images are so glowing.

Whoa, puppy! Quick, grab him!

You are truly fortunate that you never broke a bone during a wild leap off the swing. But seeing the joyful expression on your cat’s face sorta explains why you did it.

Busy as Two Bees!

I really like the way you handled color and light in the votive candle. I also admire your use of white space. Somehow I have trouble reserving enough white spaces in my paintings.

I found this tutorial very appealing. Thanks for posting it.

Theodora, I love your big canvasses full of vibrant portraits. Thanks for sharing.

I was surprised that you wrote the book in rhyme. But in the end, it was the rhyming narrative that made your story soothing bedtime reading.

It does!

By the way, my 3 year old granddaughter adores “One Little Mouse.” The week I gave it to her, she asked me to read it (and draw in the pictures) at least three times.

This sketch is great! It has the feel of a stop-action sports photograph.