My friend Ruth Pearl and I had a great time drawing the live bands downtown. Everyone of them was just great we heard was great.

Voxnbass. Nefertiti had a great voice.

These were all drawn in 20 minutes or less. Started with ink. Then used Winsor Newton watercolor markers and Tombow pens. Now and then I used Caran d’ache neocolor ii.

John Dunn band.

JJ Harris Band. First one I did. Not the best.

Ttyl

Margaret off to Columbia for the day. Xxx

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Sorry for the late post…this went to that other silly website that I need to take down. For some reason the ap on my phone defaults to it although I use the Margaretmccarthyhunt.com site 99% of the time.  THEN I have to either start over or copy and paste…more long lost posts coming in a minute…

Decided to draw today instead of paint. Partially because I only had a rectangular canvas and the pose was a reclining one.

I never finished this one.  No shadow on her face. Paper is Stonehenge print paper which does great with ink and markers.

Most of them were done with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum plus ink and colored with Tombow markers. The red one is done with red watercolor pencil.

All Tombows on canson pastel paper.

Just the brush pen on cannon paper. Took about 20 minutes.

Kuretake brush pen again on canson paper. This took about ten minutes.

And the rest of them……

Cathe Dennis acrylic 24×30 love this.  So ephemeral but still solid. And sketchy yet not. 

All Beyer’s huge oil. 3×4?

Our model Ilania checks nc out Als work to give you an idea of how big it is. 

Coachs incipient charcoal. He does a great job. 

Thomas Needham’s beautiful small watercolor. 

Sketching for only a year, Rachel Millers 10×14 watercolor. To think this is one of her very first watercolors. The woman is so talented. 
Mary Donnaus pastel. Love the colors.

Fred’s odalisque Acrylic 24×36.

The rest got away before I had a chance to snap a pic.

Have a great day.

Ttyl

Margaret xxx

Would get an early start. And plot out what I would eat today so s not to go over the 800 calorie limit. 
Sometimes u should change things up when u r getting bored which I was with the diet journal. I think see a very fine pigma micron pen and tried to change the letter style. That’s. It easy to do when you have done a whole book full of bubble style letters. 

And this one was painted quickly with all watercolor. I didn’t. Lend out shadows or soften edges but tried to leave the brush strokes here and there. 

Off to paint to start a new painting. Here it is.  Have a super Monday. 
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Sunday. I don’t seem to quit running. Emily acrylic 24×30 painted in about an hour and a half. 

Think her forehead is a tad too narrow which is an easy fix. Where I painted it was the black hole of Calcutta. No light because of Matthew pouring outside.

Drew Murphy. Amazing he painted this in about a half an hour. It’s 24×30. Acrylic. 
Drews first painting. He didn’t like t so he started over.  

Ruth Pearls beautiful conte crayon sketch. 

Al Beyers huge oil. About 3’x4′. Amazing to paint this in an hour and a half. 

Ruth’s second sketch. 
Done by Coach.  I need to learn his name. Large charcoal. 

FRed Bakers 24×30 acrylic. Another of his mad women. 

Tom Needhams lovely watercolor. Quarter sheet. 
And our newbee who amazes me. A little off but what talent in someone sketching for only a year. 

Mine in progress. 

Second break. Maybe I should have stopped here?
After forty minutes. 

True Margaret off to Asheville be back tonite. Xoxox napping now.  Lol. 

Decided to draw today instead of paint. Partially because I only had a rectangular canvas and the pose was a reclining one. All six of these were drawn in about an hour and a half. 

My first sketch. Kuretake brush pen with carbon platinum black ink. 

I never finished this one. No shadow on her face. Paper is Stonehenge print paper which does great with ink and markers. 

Most of them were done with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum plus ink and colored with Tombow markers. The red one is done with red watercolor pencil. 10×14 Canson Pastel Paper

All Tombows on canson pastel paper. 10×14

Just the brush pen on canson pastel paper.10×14 Took about 20 minutes. 

Kuretake brush pen again on canson pastel paper. 10×14 This took about ten minutes. 
And the rest of them……

Cathe Dennis acrylic 24×30 love this. So ephemeral but still solid. And sketchy yet not. The fabric is so rich. 

All Beyer’s huge oil. 3×4? 

Our model the lovely Ilania checking out Als work to give you an idea of how big it is. 

Coachs incipient charcoal. He does a great job. He zipped out the door before I could take a pic of the final product. 

Thomas Needham’s beautiful small watercolor. 

Sketching for only a year, Rachel Millers 10×14 watercolor. To think this is one of her very first watercolors. The woman is so talented. She continues to amaze me. 

Marilyn Hartleys awesome charcoal and I think conte crayon. She said it wasn’t very artistic. I was thought what???

Here it is earlier. Such a great sketch. 

Mary Donnans pastel. Love the colors. 

Fred’s odalisque Acrylic 24×36. 

The rest got away before I had a chance to snap a pic. 
Have a great day. 
Ttyl 
Margaret xxx

Sons coming home with his new wife for the first time so I have been scrubbing the house from top to bottom making it glow. 

But here’s a journal page. Last photo. Only 13 days left. Enjoying the most delicious black bean soup that’s been in the slow cooker all day. Yum yum. 

I kept scribbling on it and taking photos. This is what it looked it looked like at first. This is just watercolor. Daniel Smith and Winsor Newton. 

I decide it was boring so started scribbling  on it with my neocolor ii watercolor crayons. 

Here’s even more scribble. It was scribble take a pic scribble some more. 

Did I go to far?! Oh well on to the next page. 

Ttyl

 Margaret putting her feet up xooxoxo

It’s been one of those days. If it could go wrong it did. 

Funmaliya Ngozi 8×10″ watercolor and Tom bow markers. Kuretake brush pen

Went sketching with my friend Ruth at Best of Augusta where we drew the singers. We actually gave our sketches to the artists which means when my new iPhone 7 was updated at Verizon I lost a few days of photos including those of my sketches. It was backed up with the October 3 backup.  

So I got a semi brilliant idea if you can be brilliant on four hours sleep to take photos of the photos on my old phone.

It actually worked fairly well. 

Here’s one I took with my new phone. We love to hear Bill sing but he had his Frank Sinatra on Last nite and wasn’t holding still. They were also the first sketches that I did which can be a problem. 

I never quite finished this one. After last weeks sketches at Dr Sketchys I got spoiled and didn’t like these. Not so bad when I look at them now. 

Thanks for checking by. More Best of Augusta tomorrow. 

Margaret off to buy a new router.  Yes it died. The pool pump died. Flood insurance is due and oh yeah the plumber is coming to fix the whole house water filter which seems to be jammed. Sigh. Pray for me. 🙄😬😏

11th and Broad Street on a Summer First Friday – Acrylic 36×48 

Glad to be finally done with this monster. NOw to chose the next painting. Starting it tomorrow. It’s going to be one of the following photos. 

Leaning toward the street scene with all the people.  

But who doesn’t like a bright fall day. 

Or the girls lunching on a nice fall day. 

Or then there’s the  guy I surprised yesterday at the Inner Bean. 

Hmm which will it be. Have to decide today because tomorrow I start another!

Sketching tonite at Best of Augusta. Always love some live sketching!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret xoxoxox