Pondering with Mary: Watercolor & Acrylics by Mary McGuire

It's been a great enjoyment to take up painting again in the past few years.
Here are some more recent works...hope you enjoy the view...

Mary McGuire

"The Sea Shell"
Watercolors and Colored Pencil
October 2021

"Sophie"

My Sister-in-law's Yorkie

"For God so Loved the World" John 3:16

Acrylic Painting
January 2022

"Washed in the Word"
"...washed by the cleansing of God's Word"
From Ephesians 5:26 NLT

12" x 12" Acrylic Painting

Sunset from photo taken by Tom Vail on Nov 6, 2016 at Aliceville Lake,

Pickensville, Alabama.

16" x 20" Acrylic painting by Mary McGuire
September 2020

"Adalyn in the Hydrangeas"

12" x 36" canvas
Acrylic

A sunrise at the beach...I wanted to practice painting skies.
Acrylics April 2020

"Mary's House" is part of Living Free Ministries.
This is a painting for "Mary's House" entitled "Beauty for Ashes"
(There are real ashes at the bottom of the painting)
Acrylic March 2020

My friend Brenda
Created in watercolors and colored pencil. 2019

My first attempt at acrylic liquid pour. 2018

It's been a summer of Dog Portraits...here's three portraits commissioned by my friend, Amy.

Acrylic painting. August 2019

"His Eye is on the Sparrow"
Mixed Media - Watercolors and Colored Pencil
January 2018

Lion and the Lamb
Acrylics

The Prayer

Acrylics

"Putting on the Armor"
Taken from Ephesians 6 Scripture
Original Acrylic Painting
Donated to the 2017 Living Free Ministries Auction.
Was auctioned for $1000

"Crown Him with Many Crowns"
Jesus gift of forgiveness and salvation covers my "filthy rags" (Isaiah 61;10 and 64:6)
with His Righteousness and I will lay at His feet any crowns I might ever receive.
(2 Timothy 4:8, Revelation 4:10-11)

Original Acrylic by Mary McGuire
2017

"You are my hiding place"
Watercolors by Mary McGuire
February 2017

Watercolor painted for my sister-in-law, Ruth Isley.
June 2014

"Marvelous Mimosa"

Watercolor August 2013

By Mary McGuire

Italian Window Boxes

Painted from a photo taken Debra McGuire in Italy

Acrylic 2013

By Mary McGuire

Another version below is in watercolors, painted in 2012

"An Apple a Day"

"Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings"

Psalm 17:8

An original watercolor by Mary McGuire

Won an Honorable Mention at the Burlington Artist's League

Senior Art Competition, April 2013

Camellias in Snow

Isaiah 55:10

"...the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

and do not return to it without watering the earth

and making it bud and flourish…"

An Original Watercolor by Mary McGuire
January 2013 for Martha’s Birthday

Another piece begun at the Anne Abgott Workshop attended in June 2012.
Pears in watercolor

These boats were begun in a June 2012 workshop and finished in July.

It will hang in my hubby's office at McGuire Air Compressors.

Watercolor - from Anne Abgott Workshop

"Silver-Tini & Green Olives"

From a June 2012 Anne Abgott Workshop at Cheap Joe's in Boone NC.

Watercolor by Mary McGuire

"Afternoon at a Vineyard" - Acrylics 2012
Now in the private collection of Eddie & Julie Fisher

"Canyon Winter Sunrise" Acrylic 2012
Painted from a photo taken by Tom Vail in the Grand Canyon
and now in the private collection of Tom & Paula Vail, Canyon Ministries