Mary B Spires Watercolor & Art Stuff

6" x 6" Oil on Canvas Board Another one hour painting......I will be at convention for the rest of the week.....but if I get a chance I'll post something....maybe a few pictures of my students at convention.......

6" x 6" Oil on Canvas Board Mint Chocolate Chip! Yum! Since the "paint around" at Dreama's workshop I decided to paint cupcakes in one hour or less! What fun!  No pressure! Just paint! 

Thanks to everyone who gave me a comment on the Pony Paintings..... . .

Orange 4" x 4" on Board Today was a big day ...... I purchased a MAC. .... Yea!  Yea!  I have been wanting one for years....so I bit the dust,  met my daughter (she has one) at the store and did the deed....  Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP.....so if you have XP you can't sign up to receive my newsletter or blog using Feed Burner....so please email me! I've signed up for classes..... so stay tune! 

8" x 10" Oil on Board My Little Pony I painted this a few weeks ago.   Then I took Dreama Tolle Perry's  workshop and I painted another one.  I approached it in the technique that I learn from her.  8" x 10" Oil on Board The difference in the painting is I have softer brush strokes, more diffuse color.  What do ya think? I would love some feed back.  It's always a learning process.  Always a student......

11" x 11" on Watercolor Paper Holly Hock Tuesday August 14th 11" x 14" on Watercolor Paper Swan Lake Thursday August 16th 11" x 14" on Watercolor Paper

8" x 8" Oil on Board Last morning of class Dreama challenged us to a "round about" where each artist starts a painting from a photograph that Dreama gave us.  We were to work on  each  painting for about 5 minutes, you got to take your brush but that was it!  What fun! Five other artist worked on this cupcake that I just love.....what a wonderful take away from all the new friends.  I got to work on a sunflower, a flower in a glass and another cupcake.  A couple of the photographs were upside down......they always say you can trick your brain into seeing the shapes not knowing what it is....next week is the HOOT (Heart of Ohio Tole) Convention. I will be teaching 3 classes, plus a demo on Wednesday on Color Theory.  This will be my 20th year teaching....where has the time gone?  Thanks to a wonderful lady and teacher Betty Denton. After I had been painting for about 2 years I got to take a class with her and it changed...