Lost in Thought and Girls Just Wanna Paint

GJWP Challenge Yearning for Spring

Buzzing Bees 6x8, acrylic on canvas panel

Nothing says Spring like flowers and bees.

Check out the Girls Just Wanna Paint blog to see our depictions of yearning for spring

If you've been trying to sign up for my classes through the Von Liebig website and had trouble finding them, the website is undergoing a redo and it's unreliable.

Here is the schedule and you can call the front desk at 

239-262-6517 to register. 

Class Title:  A Painting A Day - 

Instructor Mary Sheehan Winn

Date: 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7

Day/Time:  Friday, 9am-12pm

Member Price: $35

Bees Are the Voice of the Garden

"Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee"

8x10 oil on stretched canvas

This month's Girls Just Wanna Paint challenge was to paint a quote and since I am fascinated with bees I went for this title.

But, I like this one too.

"Bees are the voice of the garden"

What Women Want

Sunflowers in Blue

12x12 oil $250

This was the loaded topic for this months Girls Just Wanna Paint challenge and the possible paintings depicting such, were like a roulette wheel going around and around in my head.
Finally, I pulled it out at the last minute after procrastinating over, what women want. 
They wanna paint!

This woman wanted to paint these beautiful sunflowers in her periwinkle blue, faux McCoy pitcher! So, she did.

Our meeting tonight ran from laughter to tears and back to laughter. Some of us are bearing up under loss and some of us are struggling with life's  randomness and inexplicable path. We all agreed that this group friendship, begun around our painting, is an anchor and that we feel safe and loved and supported by one another, and that that, is really what women want.

Tulips

"Tulips"

11x14 oil on canvas

My sister left me these tulips as a welcome present and I painted them in acrylic which is a new medium for me. 

I really like the smoothness of the paint. 

Because it dries quickly, but not as quickly as I thought it did, you can work over it and the under layer shows through.

I'll post a step by step of the next tulip painting. 

Stay tuned.