Jessica Lanan | Author and Illustrator

paintings

Browse below for a selection of paintings and sketches made both outside and in the studio. Click here if you'd like to read more about my plein air painting process and equipment. For prints, please visit the Print Shop. For inquiries about original art, please email me at hello@jessicalanan.com. Thanks!

Watercolor painting of an alleyway between brick buildings with bright sunlight

Watercolor painting of a yellow car under trees on a sunny day in autumn.

Watercolor painting of a blue snowy field in twilight. In the background are dark mountains and a bright sky with crescent moon.

Watercolor painting of a road in shadow descending a hill with a sun-streaked valley and mountains in the distance.

Portrait style watercolor sketch of a large cottonwood tree in the sun with a blue sky and green foliage behind.

watercolor sketch of a path leading through green foliage with a blue ridge in the distance and a pink pre-dawn sky with a crescent moon.

Watercolor painting of a bison skull against a wall.

Watercolor painting of dumpsters, stone steps and the wall of a building.

Watercolor sketch of houses on a ridgeline with a snowy field below streaked with blue shadows

watercolor sketch of a dirt road leading up a slope between banks of snow and dry grass, with distant mountains and a partly cloudy sky in the distance.

watercolor sketch of a house and garage partly obscured by large trees with an alleyway in the foreground. Bright sunlight shines from behind the trees.

Watercolor painting of a rusty old SUV with a yellow snow plow parked in the grass along a suburban fence with a tree and brown house behind.

Watercolor sketch of a field and fence with distant ridge beneath and yellow and orange dawn sky with pink clouds.

Watercolor painting of a brown horse wearing bridle and saddle, hobbled with rope, standing in shade and sunlight in an open field.

Watercolor sketch of a field with farm buildings and blue mountains behind framed by tree branches and fence posts. In the foreground, puddles of water among deep grass reflect a pale sky.

Watercolor portrait of a light-skinned baby with blond hair wearing a blue shirt

Large portrait-style watercolor painting of a white-tail doe standing in sunlight among foliage and bare branches with a dark background

Watercolor sketch of a tree with bare branches lit from behind by the sun with snow in the foreground

Watercolor sketch of the corner of a brick building. A man with light skind stands on the top and a man with dark skin, suspended by pulleys and ropes, descendes a yellow wall.

Watercolor painting of a lake with rocks and foliage in the foreground. Sunbeams break through the gray clouds in the sky, illuminating the water in the distance.

Watercolor plein air painting of hills with meadow and pine trees in green and gold, with gray rain clouds in the distance

Watercolor painting of an osprey with widespread wings and fanned tail flying with blue sky and white clouds above

watercolor and gouache sketch of a willow tree with bare branches in a palette of brown and green

watercolor sketch of glowing Coleman camp lantern beside a roughly painted tree trunk

small watercolor sketch of a green and orange crab on sand

Watercolor sketch from high point of view showing two palm trees on either side of a suburban driveway with another house and the ocean behind.

Small watercolor painting of a blue bicycle and yellow and gray bike trailer parked beneath trees in dappled sunlight

Watercolor plein air sketch of a pile of sandstone rocks and boulders catching afternoon sunlight.