Mary B Spires Watercolor & Art Stuff

11" x 14" Transparent Watercolor on Paper I just finished this one!  Reminds me of my Great Granddaughter, Haddie Girl...... so that's where the name came from.  This project will be taught at  the Beach Art Center the first two weeks of April. Just love all the primary colors.....

11" x 14" Watercolor on Paper This is a new class projects that will be taught at the Beach Art Center the last two Wednesday in March.  My friend and student Nancy took this photograph and wanted to see how I would go about deciding colors, composition and how to paint the overall painting.

11" x 11" Transparent Watercolor The scheduled Make It Take It for Thursday, Feb 23 has been canceled due to scheduling at the Beach Art Center. This will be the project for Thursday, March 1, 2012.....

In Full Bloom 11" x 11" Step by Step Instructions available on my web site http://www.maryspires.com/ My Landscape Workshop #2 I received my critique over the week end.....I just can't believe how fast he does the critique.  He like the snow painting and only had one suggestion, add a little more light on the right bank of the water.  I'm really looking forward to starting the Still Life Workshop next week.  I hope to do this workshop along with the landscape workshop.  I made it to the dentist yesterday (morning and afternoon).  We are planning on getting everything finished in 3 weeks so we can go to Ohio for Thanksgiving.  My granddson is here until Saturday, spending a lot of time at the beach.  He going to move to Jacksonville this weekend, starting school the first of January.  Soooooo nice having him in the state!

Watercolor 11" x 14" on Paper with Tissue Paper I did this while we were in Florida........I'll be teaching this project at the HOOT (Heart of Ohio Tole) Convention in August.......the class is almost full! So if you want to join us, get going and send in your registration. This is a really fun project....you first paint the local color then add tissue paper with Mat Medium....let dry and finish painting.......the nice thing about tissue paper and mat medium is the color will life, so those mistakes can easily be fix!

My Wednesday morning Class at the Beach Art Center in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida wanted to do a portrait. This was from a Photograph I took this past summer while attending a workshop. As I told the class it's always easier to paint someone you don't know..........