Day 642 – hmm

April 6, 2016Leave a comment

WordPress continues to cause problems.

The Bottoms at Looking Glass Falls Mt Pisgah, Blue Ridge Parkway. For Sale.

Finished this full sheet (20″x30″) watercolor yesterday. It languished in the corner for about two years almost done. Really pleased with the way it turned out.
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No idea what the colors are its been so long. 👀🙄

I did lift some whites around the people and on a few trees with the Mr Clean Eraser and my erasing shield. Scrub scrub scrub and there’s white. I also used a dab of white gouache just to be sure.

Thanks for reading.

Margaret who hopes WordPress posts this because it didn’t yesterday. 🙄

Day 641 PCM and the t shirt

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016Leave a comment

Really loving this sketch of PonceCity Market Szechuan Restaurant. Love the dragon. Strathmore 500 watercolor paper carbon platinum black ink in carbon fine tip pen.

Repainting the tshirt sketch as promised. Hope to deliver it Tuesday to Rhineharts.
Letting the ink dry so no smears on it. Ink smears are so annoying and so unpredictable. A kin to letting paint dry!!!
I usually don’t use pencil but since it’s a redo of the original sketch which has a split page from the sketchbook it’s a necessity if the restaurant is to have it.

The sketchbook.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx

Day?! (640) It’s Saturday

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016Leave a comment

So once again I posted this on the wrong blog. I really have to delete the other one. Sigh. Hurrah!! It’s deleted. No more posting on it accidentally.

😃When I am home that means I have been sketching and painting at the life modeling session that Prof Al Beyer had at USC Aiken. Pleased with my sketch today.

Ilenia 20×30″. Acrylic
I will probably add some more purple to her left side. I had more but painted it out. In the rush of an hour and a half of drawing and painting sometimes u just run out of time.
Probably change the red on her cheeks. I think it’s a bit much. But better than the purple I had on her cheeks to start with. I left it in Aiken so I would get a fresh look at it Monday and not be able to torture her all weekend painting her at home.
The background could use some work too. It’s just some ultramarine blue that I scrubbed on with a paper towel when it spilled in my paint box. I finally just let it dry instead of cleaning it up. What a mess that was.
Colors used titanium white, nickel Azo gold, pyrrole red and dioxzine purple. Burnt umber for hair. Cad yellow yellow ochre and a bit of Green gold in the drapery.
Thanks for reading!
Margaret

Post 639 Anderson Art Center Show

April 1, 2016Leave a comment

Waiting at the Waffle House. 36×36″ Acrylic
These paintings are off to the Anderson Arts Center Show hopefully to be juried in to participate.

The Major aka Dad 30×40″
The show has many cash prizes with first prize being $2000. Wouldn’t that be a nice down payment on a trip to France?! There’s a long list of prizes. The show is a big deal. I will let you know dear reader what I think after I go April 16. Wish me luck!!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx