Mary B Spires Watercolor & Art Stuff

6x6 Oil on Canvas Board One of the best things in Florida during the Spring is the Gardenia Bushes.....they smell soooo good! Of course when I started this one the sun was just right, well with in 10 minutes, by the time I had the drawing....it was gone! I did several wipe offs, plus several others, but these are the only two that are worth posting!!!! Maybe someday I will get this Plein Air Thing!!!!

6x6 On Gesso Board This is one of the plein air painting during Paint the Town.

Yesterday started the St. Pete Paint the Town Plein Air Event. Judy, Larry and I spent the day painting at North Beach and Salt Creek. I will post a few paintings from the event on Sunday.........It was one of those perfect days in Florida!

Just thought I was getting close to painting 100 paintings since I started blogging, February 26, 2007. I can't believe I made it!!!!!! I'm going to celebrate and go to the BEACH today!!!!!!!

11 x 14.5 on Watercolor Paper I worked on this one yesterday & this morning. My students at the Beach Art Center wanted to do a landscape, but as most of them know I HATE landscape. So this was a compromise! It seems a little blue, but watercolors are soooooo hard to photograph. The water and the rocks are more gray.

6x6 on Gesso Board I painted this one at the St. Pete Artist Market on Saturday, the first one I painted was tomatoes slices on green, but the wind blew and it ended up in the dirt. I did scrape some of it off, so maybe later today I can salvage it. I just love the Gessoed Board, you can move paint around and see the brush strokes.........I think this surface maybe my favorite.

5x7 on Gesso Board I started this one on Tuesday morning, but finished it today. I've been playing around with the slick gesso board, it give you more texture, but sometimes it's hard to get the paint to stay on. I like the way it looks once the paint is dry.......I ordered about a dozen of canvas board and gesso board, so I'm sure I will know when all are painted.