Month: September 2015

Day 421 – A Little Urban Sketching 

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at Fitch and Fifth in Surrey Center in Augusta Ga. A room full of people and I am waiting to eat. What else would I do?!

 Scenes like this really call my name to get out my Noodler Ahab or my brush pen and get busy drawing.  

I do usually paint these later because I don’t want to impose on whoever I am with too much. 

TIP: Oh. Almost forgot. The ledger strip down the side.  Whenever you see that I can promise you there is something I really didn’t like about the sketch.  In this case it was a waiter running a bill. Usually a figure on the side is nice but this one was not!! What to do?! Glue some ledger paper down and record our dinner. 
Ps it was delicious. My trout was perfect. I forgot their five stars. Oops. Will fix that!!! Or maybe not. Really like it just the way it is. 

 
And you thought the body was round?! Enjoy. One more page left!! 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 420 – Meet Me at the Rocket! 

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 Inscrutable Half Sheet 300 # Fabriano 

Why at the Rocket?! 
 The South Carolina State Fair Art Show in Columbia, SC is a BIG statewide event in South Carolina.  And everybody meets at The Rocket, an old missile named Columbia donated to the state.

The Best in Show Professional prize is $2000!! And there are thousands more in prize money!! The paintings are my entries. I will be happy if they sell because droves of people attend the fair daily. 

  
Tea  Time  11×15″ 300# Fabriano 

Artists from all over the state enter and the competition is fierce. There are so many entries that they fill up half a huge butler building. There are at least 1000 paintings in the show. Some are outstanding some are beginners and there is everything in between. The good the bad and the ugly. 
I intend to sketch there.  Anyone want to meet me at the Rocket?! Lots of animals of all kinds to sketch. Roz Stendahl of Roz Woundup blog (http://rozwoundup.typepad.com/roz_wound_up/) would be jealous!! She sketches at the Minnesota State Fair every year and organizes a huge sketch crawl.  

BYTW if you go don’t miss the huge sand sculpture that are two – three stories tall. They are pretty amazing.  Here are a couple of them. http://scfairgrounds.com/fair/special-attractions/sand-sculpture.php and http://www.wltx.com/story/news/local/2014/10/11/state-fair-sand-sculpture-still-a-work-in-progress/17118097/
  
Another page for your drawing pleasure. 

 Thanks for reading. 

Margaret ️xxx

Day 419 – College again!? 

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On Monday and Wednesday I am auditing a painting class at a local college. SCARY stuff. NO PeNcIL allowed?! But he’s the boss so NO pencil. Should be interesting. 

He said if we can draw with a pencil we can draw with a brush. Hmm?! As I said he’s the boss he knows. 

  

Here’s the sketch drawn with my paintbrush and a very watery burnt sienna. I hope I get the hang of this soon.  Maybe I just need to practice sketching with my paint brush. My size 4 Isabey. 

Probably needed more painted information on the page. And darker paint?! No idea.  
  

Had a lot of trouble getting the head small enough. Not sure why but I did. Couldn’t be that I sketched it too large could it?! 

  

Not only was his head to big his neck which is slim is massive. Oops!!  

  
Ok so I cheated and got out a watercolor pencil because I was getting so frustrated with the head.  The light purple areas around the head are where I narrowed the head. I also ended up lifting the beard and the sunglasses. 

  Lifting is easy to do on good cold press Wc paper like this fabriano.  Just dampen it a bit with a brush and left off with a CLEAN paper towel or Kleenex. No puffs allowed they have lanolin in them. Not good for watercolors. 

  
Another day another page. I hope I didn’t post this one already. 

Onward and upward my painting partners. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret ️xxx