I was told by the manager of french Market Grill that this was expensive top drawer tea sold only at the best restaurants as he charged me $8 plus gratuity for this tea. Also available at other fine restaurants like Waffle House. Never bought another meal at french Market Grill.
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Margaret xxx
My favorite side of the old Sears building now known as Ponce Market. Both have problems.
I drew this one first but really had just wanted to feature the tower and the sign. Love that sign. Vintage but brand new.
TIP: Since I didn’t use a pencil or a ruler you might be wondering how i get all those lines parallel and fairly straight. I put the pen on the paper with my hand on the side of the paper and run it down the page with my hand sliding down the edge of the paper. It really does work. Try it.
Colors same as yesterday. Noodler Creaper Ahab loaded with Carbon Platinum Black Ink. Stillman and bIrn Alpha. The color was hard to move on the sky and blotched. That did not make me happy. Oh well. They are done right?!
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Margaret xxx
This is the back side of the Ponce City Market from the Binders store parking lot.
It was sketched with my Noodler Creaper Ahab no pencil first. Silly me. Wish I had painted the building farther down. Oops!!!
Sky is cobalt blue brick cad red and vermilion with yellow ochre and a bit of Inathridone to grey it slightly. Black is Inathridone and burnt umber. Letters are cad red and vermilion.
Stay tuned for more drawings of this building on Ponce de Leon in Atlanta. It’s the old Sears building that’s being rehabbed as condos and a market similar to the Pike Market in Seattle. There’s something about the tower on that old building with its flag flying against the blue sky that I never tire of. Add in the signage and its a winner. Best part of it to me is the new Binders store minutes from my kids houses!! Love that store.
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Margaret xxx
go till I make a year of daily blogging. On the downhill slide.
A sort of contour drawing of Bear who decided to move in the middle of the drawing. I have drawn him so many times I can get him more or less right even so.
He’s a big brown brindled pitty that somebody dumped. Wisely Bear attached himself to my son Ben two years ago and there he stays. He’s really a very laid back relaxed dog who would rather be petted than ever chew on you. He was fun to journal about with my Noodler Creaper Ahab in Carbon Platinum Black ink.
Once again he was painted with Quin burnt sienna and ultramarine blue, Inathridone blue and burnt umber was added for the stripes and shadows.
The background started as a dirty grey cerulean. I stood the sketch book at a 90 degree angle and let bits of Quin burnt sienna, yellow ochre, Inathridone blue for the drops and splats.
I thought about painting the background another blue layer to even put the color but decided I liked it as is and left it alone.
Here’s the whole double page spread. I thought you would like to see it.
I am going to enter it in a win a free pen and ink contest on Instagram. They like to know what the pen and ink is in writing plus a photo of the pen. The white page looked so plain I quickly wrote one of my favorite dog quotes and painted the leftpage to match the right page.
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Margaret xxx
Inner Bean is almost all shades of grey so a lot of fun to sketch it and paint it with all those shades of grey and black by mixing blues and Browns to get different greys.
There were a lot of patrons coming and going getting take outs and their awesome coffee to go. The wierd guy in the blue plaid shirt was really into his coffee while he waited for his fellow members of the Mens Club that meets every Thursday afternoon til closing at the Bean.
Most of the other colors were straight out of my paint box. Off course I used my Noodler Creaper Ahab and Carbon Platinum Black ink both of which can be bought at Goulet Pens on the Internet.
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Margaret xxx
Beachtime so posting my Seashell watercolor painting. It is that time of the year when everyone starts heading for the seaside.
Friends have been telling me to post some of my watercolors with a price so I am going to try to start doing that once a week.
So here goes!!
Seashells
$200 + shipping OBO (or best offer)
30 day return policy if not satisfied
Watercolor
approximately 11×15
Crescent water color board
It will remain for sale for ten days. Send me your best offer at m c m h u n t @ m e. Com
It could be yours! I want to go to Tuscany!!
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Margaret xxx
On our day trip to Columbia SC Tuesday we stopped by City Art which is carries all the supplies for both Charels Reid and Mary White then we went to Nonnahs and last Mast General on Main Street ended we found this super SQUIRREL PROOF bird feeder.
Mast General Store an old fashioned general store on Main St. The original is in Valle Crucis near Boone NC.
The squirrels are gluttons for bird seed gobbling voraciously. This bird feeder is actually squirrel proof. They are now entertaining us trying to figure out how to get into it. The top locks on and the bar across the front licks the seed up when the weight of the squirrels sets it. LOVE it. They don’t. They are actually hanging out on the porch rails staring at it with occasional attach forays and leave soon after. Very entertaining to watch their consternation over the shut off food supply. And of course they sit there staring making them easy subjects to draw.
Colors used. Inked with my Noodler creaper Ahab loaded with platinum carbon black my go to ink. Greys cerulean and burnt sienna or Inathridone and Burnt umber for darker greys on squirrels. All done wet on wet. Bird feeder is vermilion and cad red medium. Same greys were used on the roof. Background is cerulean toothbrush splattered with Inathridone blue.
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Margaret xxx
and painting greys.
Tom spent a long time on the sofa grooming today. You have to wonder why cats do that. He’s always immaculate.
He’s drawn and lettered with my Noodler Creaper Ahab. I painted Tom with a wash of orange and then laid in Quin burnt sienna for the stripes and to warm up the orange. The Quin burnt sienna was added when he was wet and when he was dry. He’s really almost red in some light. A dark auburn. Darks are done with burnt umber and Inathridone blue.
Greys. Watercolor makes lovely greys. Combine any blue with any brown or yellow ochre and you can get a wide variety of interesting greys.
Here are a few I made that way.
Sometimes you end up with too much brown in the grey. Better to end up with too much blue!! You can darken the grey by using less water.
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Margaret xxx
is sketching a friend at breakfast at a local restaurant considered urban sketching?!
Lowered the left eyebrow. It was too high. Still a bit too high but better.
Doesn’t look a bit like Marsha. She kept moving. So I am blaming her for the poor likeness.
I did have a good time dripping and splattering the painting and that’s what counts right?!
Really like the hair. It was washed with burnt sienna and the darkened with tiny bits of cobalt, burnt umber, mineral Violet and Inathridone blue after the initial wash dried. Fun stuff.
Colors used: Quin coral and ochre for skin, vermilion, mineral purple and cobalt, Inathridone blue for blouse, mineral purple and burnt sienna for shadows. Hair is burnt sienna, cobalt, burnt umber and Inathridone blue.
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Margaret xxx
in Columbia at Nonnahs on Gervais.
The view of the restaurant from our table. Delicious awesome from scratch biscuits made with the famous SC flour Adluh and great chicken salad on a bed of mixed greens with artichoke hearts and lots of iced tea. Deliciousness.
I had hoped some more victims I mean patrons would come in but all there were walked by on the sidewalk after I drew the buildings. OPPS!
Noodler Konrad with Lexington Grey ink and Caran d’ache.
The zigzags of color are applied after the base color dries. I think it gives a little Zing to the sketch.
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Margaret xxx
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