Zoe curled up next to me on the sofa watching Super Soul Sunday.
Pentel brush pen Superaquabee tablet and some smearing of ink. She was mostly in shadows.
A week of RUNNING!! Off I go. Hope I finish my Diebenkorn today. 😋
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Zoe Pentel brush pen in Superaquabee tablet
It’s not easy to draw an all white FLUFFY Jack Russel with black ink. Her fur is very wispy with a Mohawk down her back and bushy eyebrows. Impossible to draw those bushy white eyebrows with black ink. Zoe is a broken coat which means she has long hair AND short hair. An extra challenge.
Then there is her muzzle with black nose and lips and white hair with dots and a greyish cast. 😜 another inky challenge!!
So I started shading which was done by smearing ink with my fingers before it dried completely. The ink is permanent so if you wait to long it won’t move on most paper.
A redraw with my other non waterproof Pentel brush pens could be fun but we are off to the Magnolia cemetery ghost walk one of the most haunted spots in Augusta GA and the Hispanic festival. Hoping for lots of opportunities for sketching and photos for paintings!! And NO rain.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Erica WIP 20×30 painted this morning at life modeling session at USC Aiken. She still needs a lot of work I think. Like fixing her saggy right Tata. I am also not enamoured of the greyish flesh color. And twitch her mouth to the left a bit.
Richard Diebenkorn in his studio from an old Horizons magazine.
We have been studying Richard Diebenkorn who was an abstract expressionist and a Bay Area painters an influential west coast group starting in the 50s.
A Beginners guide to Diebenkorn at
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/richard-diebenkorn-beginner-guide from his recent retrospective at the British Royal Academy.
Coffee by Diebenkorn.
Diebenkorn. Don’t know the title. It is more similar to my painting I color.
Diebenkorn Don’t know the title.
Bay Area painter Nathan Oliviera love the way it seems to fly.
I would love to try Oliviera’s style but I don’t know where you would start. More about Oliviera http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/november/nathan-oliveira-obit-111710.html
Other Bay Area painters are Elmer Bischoff, Thiebaud, David Parks and Thiopolis Brown.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Sometimes you need a do over. I actually drew this street cafe in Aiken twice. This is number two. I started drawing the horse first with my Lamy vista fine point but it would not draw. Which is why it looks so scratchy. The ink would not flow. I threw in the towel and used the Noodler Konrad loaded with Platinum Carbon black ink.
It was going well till I smeared the eyes of the lady on the right. Oops. I used a white gel pen to try to fix them. I also could have used gouache and painted the scene but have not had time. It might help if I stayed home.
Actually the first drawing. So why else did I redraw?! Terrible eyes. And things in the wrong places. I ran out of room for the horse. Ooops!!
Here is the photo the sketch is based on. That’s it for today from the river where the water is still muddy but behaving staying in its banks. Something to be thankful for in the state or South Carolina- a river that does not flood.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Today is my Dad’s 93rd birthday!! I drew this quick sketch of him but he wiggled a lot. He also didn’t fee well.
Anyway. HaPPy BiRtHdAy Dad!! Here’s to many more.
Thanks for reading!
Margaret xxx
Really like this sketch with one blot in my copy book. The guys head. Oooopsss.
I actually rearranged the people at the inner bean to fill up my sketch. I started with the girl on the left and then the guy. The other two ladies were actually sitting behind him. Decided to move them. My guy needed company.
This was drawn Monday in class while I waited for the teacher. I like her though I think both of these will look better when I paint them.
Spent the day hiking all over Aiken looking for pictures to paint. I cajoled Adrian into modeling on the bench downtown. She’s a pretty girl.
And what’s not to love about a pile of hats?!!
And fr the postman NOT to look at the camera and act like he was working.
The parish hall at St Thaddeus where I stood in an ant hill taking photos.
I mean you look UP not down dont u?!
Itch itch itch.
Something about the guy and his truck. Maybe the shadows?! Or all that red yellow and orange?!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret who is ready for a nap xxxx
All done but the signing.
Professor Al said it was PoWeRfUL?!! 😋👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Did I say hurrah?! That’s a major statement coming from Al Beyer. Maybe I should do more self portraits. After all we are out cheapest model!!
The start – like a contour drawing. No exactness.
Have to say it really doesn’t look a lot like me but I wasn’t striving for a likeness. I was actually pushing it to the dark side. My hair was wild which usually it’s a lot calmer. I fluffed it up for the photo. Beethoven has nothing on me.
Underway using complimentary colors.
My nose is nowhere near that long but the slash of white was fun. As was darkening the smile lines and the bags under the eyes.
Time for the background
Also great fun adding zings of red and green here and there. A lot of the red was done with the end of my paint brush dipped in the cad red light. All the purple was made with alizarin and phtalo blue. You can’t get a nice purple with phtalo blue and cad red. You get more of a brown. Not what I had in mind.
Oops lost the hair on the right.
One more note. This was painted with large hog bristle brushes-flats 10&12 and slashes with a 6.
Next up a 32×48″ painting of ta da. Drum roll please!!
I made my sister pose for me when she was baking Friday. Should be interesting. Largest thing I have painted in years.
And darn. I left my Inktober sketchbook in the car yesterday. Duh!!
Report from the Savannah.
The river is up from all the rain in the upstate but the rain is gone and the sun is out!! All is good in the CSRA!
Up tomorrow – catching up on Inktober. Actually two sketches in the car. Color me too lazy to run down stairs and get them when I am leaving anyway in a bit. My house is on stilts like a beach house so LOTS of stairs. Three stories of them.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret glad to have survived the eminent doom of a catastrophic flood!! Nope Noah never showed up!!
XXX M on the Savannah River
Still watching the river!! Hoping everyone is staying high and dry during this monsoon.
Inktober 5 – Ladies at the Bean loved this group as they sat and chatted away a rainy morning. Hmm well I think the lady on the left is great but the lady on the right is not bad either. Lol
The left lady had the greatest expressions and was birdlike in the tilt of her head.
Drawn with my Noodler Konrad and Platinum Carbon Black ink.
Jan – love the wet and wet colors in the quilt which is cobalt cerulean Winsor yellow and Quin gold. Skin muddied Quin coral and yellow ochre. Hair burnt sienna and inathradone.
The Yakker or is it The Smoker?! Can u find her cigarette??? How she managed to keep that cigarette in her mouth while she talked like crazy I have NO idea. She was so entertaining to watch. She was larger than life in every way from her huge purse to her ample proportions.
Skin is burnt sienna or Quin sienna. Not sure which. Quin red shirt. Hair is inathradone and burnt umber. Cigarette is white gouache.
Henry – background Quin gold. Sofa Quin sienna and Quin burnt orange – skin Quin coral and French yellow ochre
Got the nasty virus still that half of the people in Augusta seem to have but forced myself to paint some in my coloring book aka my ink sketches.
About Henry sketch. Really like the way the darks make his legs pop and take shape. My favorite of the ones I painted yesterday.
Inktober day 4 – Forgot to take a pic of the black and white sketch. Oops.
Random customer at the inner bean sitting less than three Feet from me. So absorbed in her phone she didn’t notice I was drawing her.
Drawn with Noodler Konrad and carbon platinum black ink.
Hair – burnt sienna Quin burnt orange. Shirt cobalt and inathradone. Skin Quin coral and yellow ochre. Grey is cerulean and burnt sienna. 
A reindeer head that was over the cabin fireplace last weekend. Why a reindeer in the western North Carolina mountains?! NO idea! A friend told me he was a moose but we decided he was a reindeer probably from Norway or Sweden. Along way from home.
Quin gold and burnt sienna wall. Same with the splatters. Grey is cerulean and burnt sienna. Piemonite and cobalt used in the shadows.
Out my back door. Glad to report the Savannah is still units riverbanks!!
Thanks for looking!! Back to watching the BIG Flood in nearby Columbia and Charleston and glad Augusta dogged the bullet.
Stay safe and dry my chickadees!
Margaret glued to WIS Columbia. Nope no football here!!
Henry – background Quin gold. Sofa Quin sienna and Quin burnt orange – skin Quin coral and French yellow ochre
Got the nasty virus still that half of the people in Augusta seem to have but forced myself to paint some in my coloring book aka my ink sketches.
About Henry sketch. Really like the way the darks make his legs pop and take shape. My favorite of the ones I painted yesterday.
Inktober day 4 – random customer at the inner bean sitting less than three Feet from me. So absorbed in her phone she didn’t notice I was drawing her.
Drawn with Noodler Konrad and carbon platinum black ink.
Hair – burnt sienna Quin burnt orange. Shirt cobalt and inathradone. Skin Quin coral and yellow ochre. Grey is cerulean and burnt sienna.
A reindeer head that was over the cabin fireplace last weekend. Why a reindeer in the western North Carolina mountains?! NO idea! A friend told me he was a moose but we decided he was a reindeer probably from Norway or Sweden. Along way from home.
Quin gold and burnt sienna wall. Same with the splatters. Grey is cerulean and burnt sienna. Piemonite and cobalt used in the shadows.
Out my back door. Glad to report the Savannah is still units riverbanks!!
Thanks for looking!! Back to watching the BIG Flood in nearby Columbia and Charleston and glad Augusta dogged the bullet.
Stay safe and dry my chickadees!
Margaret glued to WIS Columbia. Nope no football here!!
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
