Mary's Paintings
Mary has been going to a painting class once a week
at the Westminster Senior Center. She had wanted us to get her painting
supplies for her 14th birthday in April. Janis & I got her acrylic
paints, canvas boards, brushes, paper palletes, and an easel. The
store didn't have berets :-)
"Irish Coast" was her first painting. She
worked from a photograph we had taken along the western coast of Ireland
last June. Somehow she captured the colors of that wonderful place.
You can see the islands off in the distance. We had spent part of
a day exploring a small cove just to the right of this place.
"Irish Coast"
She finished the above painting in two sessions. The painting below
was done in one session. She'd kept a bouquet of dead daisies in
her room since Valentine's Day (for some reason). Why she chose to
paint dead flowers is only known to the artist. I took a video snapshot
of the bouquet and superimposed her painting background. That's the
picture on the left below. Her work is on the right.
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Mary's Painting
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"Valentine's Day Bouquet"
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