Year: 2015

Day 464 the last Best of Augusta #4

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Another favorite of Bill Karp. Bytw he’s playing at the Cotton Patch in downtown Augusta this Saturday nite. 

I really like Bill’s stance in these.  Especially the first one. 

  Hand is a little rough but otherwise I like it. My excuse?? 

It was 9 pm and I was tired and on a sugar high from all the sweets at Best of Augusta. 
Oh what was my favorite food?? T’s out on Mike Padgett Hwy. They kept the hot hush puppies and fried catfish and tartar sauce flowing. And it was perfectly cooked. Everyone else had chicken chicken and more chicken.  
  
The last sketch I did of Bill. Not a perfect hand but I like it.

We left loaded up with cake, cookies and Krispy Kreme donuts.  All those sweet treats still sitting on the kitchen counter. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 463 more Best of Augusta #3

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  Once i switched to the Pentel brush pen life improved. Or maybe it was Bill Karp singing Frank Sinatra?! His 100th birthday. Frank’s not Bills!!!  
This is my favorite sketch of Bill. A good stance. Shoes look good and a good hand. Score!! 

I kept trying to draw Bills hand. He waved them around a lot. I. Perpetual motion. 
 

Finally a good hand though I made him a little fat. Oops sorry Bill!! 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx 

Day 462 more Best of Augusta

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I forgot to mention that I was sketching with my friend Ruth Pearl again like at arts in the hearts. Always a lot of fun drawing with her.  

  PHillip Lee and a friend. I can’t remember his name but when they aren’t singing at clubs you will find them singing at Wesley United Methodist Church on Sundays. 

This is actually the last sketch I did of Phillip. Done with a Noodler Konrad  with carbon Pltinum black ink. Better but not great.  Usually I love my Noodler pens but NOT last nite.  
Another sketch of Phillip with the Konrad.   
This was the one that made me put up the a Noodler Creaper. Oops what was I thinking? A warm up right?! 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 461 -Best of Augusta

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And a  good excuse to add to the Inktober sketches. Best of Augusta is the restaurants and musicians who were voted best in the Augusta  Magazine and is held annually in Sacred Heart- the old Catholic Church I drew about a month ago. 

I drew at least a dozen sketches last nite. These are two of the audience members.  

A lady in the audience enjoying the music. I loved her Hair and the hat. Done with my Pentel brush pen. 

The shading was smeared because using just the black ink would be too dark. Think she would be fun to paint but I am getting way behind on the painting. 😳  
 

This man was in the queue to get beer. Then he sat down right behind me. 😜 I drew him with my new Noodler Creaper ahab but was having problems. So after a few sketches I switched to the Pentel brush pen and my drawings were much better. 

   
Sacred Heart 

 
Inside Sacred Heart

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 458 – Zoe

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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

Day 457 – My Diebenkorn

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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

Day 456 -Inktober continues

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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