Zaneigayha Chelon group
Which you will be seeing for a while this week. I sketched ALOT at Arts in The Hearts a big annual juried arts and crafts festival in downtown Augusta.
These were drawn at the Eighth Street Stage. She was a great little singer with her family for backup.
Got to run to class. May amend the post later today.
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Margaret xxx
My friend Ruth and I went sketching at the eighth street stage during arts in the hearts. These ladies were sitting in a nearby row like peas in a pod and I could not resist sketching them. Less than five feet from me.
They were too cute. Since I was doing undercover drawing the features are off. Their noses were no were near that big! I was really trying not to get caught.
This was painted with my large Isabey squirrel Mop #8 on a vertical easel.
Will Post some of the bands tomorrow. Yes I did draw two Of the bands as they sang and played their hearts out. They were really quite good.
Hanging a show at the inner bean Thursday. Come by and check it out.
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Margaret xxx
This was sketched on the docks of Laretto Creek across from Fort Palaski on Tybee Island.
One of my favorites painted recently because of all the whites I think.
He had noticed me sketching and asked if he could see them. I had been wanting to draw the fisherman but resisted because I might get caught undercover Sketching. As soon as he started fishing again I whipped this sketch off and quickly turned the page. I knew he would not mind.
It was painted with my Isabey squirrel mop #2 in a strathmore mixed media journal and drawn with my noodler cheaper ahab with platinum carbon black ink.
The bright fall sky was painted with cobalt and a bit of cerulean. Trees were painted with Quin gold and hematite with dabs of hookers green. So was the marsh grass. The water is Andrews turquoise with dabs of cerulean. Skin is Quin red and yellow ochre. Shirt hookers green and inathradone. Pants no idea. Yellow ochre and burnt umber w inathradone?!
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Margaret xxx
The altar of Sacred Heart. As a little girl I used to go with my best friend. Her family attended services here. The mystery and beauty of the old church always mesmerized me.
The stained glass in this Romanesque church is amazing. The nave soars high above the pews lined with banks of beautiful old stained glass clerestory windows.
The marble and gilt altar is unlike any church that I have been in. Ornate and loaded with statues of Jesus saints and angels. Topped off with soaring stained glass and a ribbed dome. So much to look at it makes you dizzy!!
I recently attended a meeting there and drew in a strathmore 500 mixed media sketchbook with a Carbon Platinum pen while I listened to the speakers.
More Sacred Heart tomorrow. Of course there are more sketches!!
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Margaret xxx
A beautiful old deconsecrated Catholic Church in downtown Augusta. Supposedly it even has a ghost in one of the bell towers.
It’s hard to get a clear view of the entire front of the church. Trees have been planted that block the view so I only drew the top.
I knew the sketch had problems when it was drawn but painted it anyway. Painted with my Isabey mop #2. No control over it and should have changed to a sable to even up the towers. Oh well. I think it might be my Rouen cathedral to paint over and over.
From Wikipedia
It was built by Jesuit priests and its first service was on December 2, 1900. The church had been in Augusta for 70 years, until it closed in 1971 due to modern suburban advancements. While the building was vacant, it endured much vandalism and was near destruction.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
In 1987, the Knox Foundation renovated the building and opened as a vibrant center of the city for cultural events. The building now host events such as wine festivals, choral concerts, and Christmas events. It is one of the best examples of redeveloping downtown Augusta.
More Sacred Heart tomorrow. The inside!!
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Margaret xxx whose actually reading a book instead of drawing or painting.
Ben – watercolor on crescent watercolor board 28″ x 20″ SOLD!!
This painting has taken about three weeks working on it off and on.
Here are a few in progress photos of it. I use my cell phone to stand away from the painting and judge it’s progress.
His legs seem a bit short but I have measured and measured against the original photo and they are right. The photo is just taken at an off angle.
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Margaret xxx off to sketch live at Arts in the Heart. Eeeekkkk!!!
and maybe that was a good idea. Just realized it was lost. Posted it to be scheduled to go out today at 10:30 am. Nothing. Wonder where it went?! Then it disappeared again. So I will post this paragraph and then add to it. I HOPE!!
Originally I posted this picture but today I realized it wasn’t terrible it just needed a good crop. I wanted to make it about the live oak tree and the resurrection ferns on the sinuous boughs but it was really about the statute and the guys sitting in Wesley Square. I especially liked the guy on the right with the dreadlocks but all the guys turned out so well in the sketch.
And the two old guys on the left were just enjoying the fabulous fall weather last Sunday and having a great talk.
Live oaks by Al Beyer 4’x 8′ oil on panel
This is what a live oak should look like. I came out of the art studio the other day at USC Aiken, and this awesome painting was leaning against the hall wall. I told Al I had just been sitting under that tree in Savannah the day before. Just a wonderful painting. I wonder if I can out it on layaway?!
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Margaret bed late today!! 😳 xxx
pleased with progress off to class so moh later as my grandson Henry says.
Calling it done. My weapons of choice were an Isabey #2 squirrel mop and a Lamy Vista fine point with an ink converter lapsed wit carbon platinum black ink. Mop is from Cheap Joes expensive but worth it and cheaper than Dick Blick. I got the pen and converter from Amazon but the ink from Goulet. The Amazon ink was NOT waterproof though it appeared to be the same ink. Another good waterproof ink is Noodlers Lexington Grey from Sam Flaxs Atlanta and de Artrementis DOCUMENT Brown from Goulet pens.
Colors used cerulean and cobalt sky. Aurelion yellow, Quinn gold in roof. burnt sienna quin burnt orange inathradone for the Sphinx. Quin gold hookers green olive green and green hematite with burnt umber in greenery. Piemonte and cobalt blue shadows on buildings and sidewalks.
The sketch Lamy on strathmore 500 mixed media
If you like this style of sketching and painting aka urban sketching sign up for Marc Holmes class on Craftsy. Sign up thru his site http://citizensketcher.com/2015/08/29/travel-sketching-in-mixed-media-lesson-sneak-peek-silhouette-shapes/ for a $10 discount. A good deal for $20 and do it at your leisure.
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Margaret xxx
River walk
Got eight Sketches done on Sunday. Four in Savannah and four on Tybee. All of the Savannah sketches were done with my Lamy Fine point.
It was hard to resist those x’s ones the building. I think they hold the building together for earthquakes. I added the people as they strolled thru my view. If you want to give it a go feel free to use my photo.
The Cotton exchange and the Freemasons Hall. Also on River front.
The Sphinx fountain in front of the Cotton Exchange. How could you resist this guy?!
Wesley Square. Love the guys. John Wesley not so much. Better extend that live oak tree!! Oops. Actually I extended the drawing adding the men last and didn’t fix the tree. I had places to go and things to see and a timed parking place!! 😄
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Margaret xxx
We packed up and left the house about ten am. The kids were off to Atlanta and it was SkEtcH TIME!!
These will all be watercolored soon but in the meantime I am sharing the sketches. I did eight total yesterday. A lot of painting soon.
If you want to draw this feel free. Shrimp boat photos are hard to come by.
I found the perfect spot on a fishing dock when you first come one the island across from Fort Pulaski. The fisherman had to check out what I was doing.
So I drew him after he checked out my sketches. Think I better straighten up that bucket. Oops!!
I switched to Lamy fine with this one. My noodles Konrad ran out of ink and my ahab was leaking. Guess I am going to have to fix it. 😳 That said I really liked the sketchiness of the fine line the Lamy does.
Not the best pelican I have ever drawn but he will look better when he’s got some color on him.
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Margaret xxx
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
