Hers is probably the most widely seen artwork in Wareham, and she has sold paintings to private and corporate clients and displayed multiple works at a time from Wareham to New York City. Yet, her paintings are usually erased after a few months. And while almost every resident in Wareham has probably seen her work at some time, they might not know her name.

Well, her name is Tuesday Bethany of Murals by Max and Tuesday (Max is her son), and she is the artist responsible for many of Main Street's and all of Wareham Crossing's window paintings.

The Dartmouth resident didn't intend to become an artist. Although she said she always doodled, Bethany never studied art and painted her first window as a favor to a friend while living in Florida. Two weeks afterwards, she quit her job as a waitress and began painting storefronts full-time.

She returned to the South Coast - she lived in Wareham until she was eleven, then moved to Acushnet and Fairhaven - and found a ready market. She's been painting now for 13 years, racking up approximately 200 clients such as Wareham Crossing, Walmart, Burger King, Taco Bell, as well as local boutiques including Jacks are Wild and Looks Unlimited on Main Street.

The smaller clients, she said, are her favorite because they let her just go with her artistic whims.

"I prefer just to do the artistic side of it - the freestyle stuff is what I do best," she said.  "Looks Unlimited was really fun. Tina [Campanario, the owner] and I went through magazines together and found this tiny little picture that she liked, and we just went from there."

The bigger clients, on the other hand, often require her to do specific designs or themes. Walmart, for instance, hired her to do paintings to advertise their bridal registry on all their stores between Wareham and New York.

"They had to have things done by a certain time, had specific designs." Bethany said. "It was a lot like work."

She said usually paints a client's window four times per year and, unlike most window painters, paints on the outside of the windows. She uses a "secret" paint (she said that it's available in stores, but won't say what it is or where she finds it) that can be easily washed off when time to repaint, but resists weather and the window-washer's squeegee. She does both murals on empty storefronts to block a view into the store as well as decoration that invites the viewer inside.

But there's one thing she said she won't do.

"I hate drawing hands."