I have been trying to add this picture to my blog and write about it since hmmm 2 pm today.  I had this BIG LONG post I was going to write…I guess I can do that tomorrow since OBVIOUSLY it did not want me to do it today.

This black and white sketch took me about two hours just to draw…took most of Tuesday nite to paint.  I should have stopped while I was a head.  I got a little heavy handed with the paint. OH well….Thats the facination of water color ….unlike other media its going to do what it wants sometimes!!

A Bientôt!!

 

Margaret off to Atlanta to dogsit…my son is flying off to Rome Italy with his bride for thier honeymoon..soooo exciting…I DO love France but Rome and Florence are on my hit list SOON!!! Like in a few months!! Or its back to France!!  In the meantime I am going to binge watch Shameless season 7…he has on demand..something this country mouse does not have!!

Been working on finishing up my sketchbooks from our Viking Seine cruise last fall. 

The swans followed the boat the now decommissioned Viking Pride on its last journey. We found out why at Conflans. The crew fed them scraps off the Prides fantail.  Table scraps after every meal. There were other birds too like flocks of commorants, geese and of course the ever voracious sea gulls. 

Colors used a Daniel Smith primatek green Wn Peacock blue and DS quin sienna, wn French ultramarine. Swans DS cerulean and quin sienna. 

Thanks for checking by!! Off to Yoga at the y! 

Margaret xoxoxo

 

Is done. She’s a commission.  I just finished her and got the dads approval.

An English setter I think. Bet she’s a ball player though I don’t know.

Colors used. Cerulean, Quinn sienna for eyes, Quinn gold ultramarine and burnt umber. The blacks were mixed with both ultramarine and burnt umber – nose face and spots or alizarin indigo and burnt umber on the ears. Tongue alizarin and Quinn coral with ultramarine blue. Background cerulean and Quinn gold.  

Drawn on hmm no idea. Fabriano cold press 300# or cold press #280 arches.

The 4 x 6 I cropped and blew up and lightened on my iPad.

Thanks for checking by. Now to finish my other commissions. Christmas is coming. 

Margaret watching the Durrell s of Corfu. Love that show.

Still open for discussion like should I put the sketch lines back in or more of them. So how did I change it?! I added yellow highlights and pops of orange to the cafe tables on the right side. 
Worked on the lady’s hand which was drawn wrong.  Added some peach highlights on the guy. Stared at it a lot thinking what’s next?! 

Oh darkened the shadow on the bottom Left. 
Can you find the changes?!

And I worked on Saturdays painting some. I decided that her formerly blue head got lost above the red. 

I may do something more to her when I see her again on Wednesday. 

Aurevoir!

Margaret xoxox 

Hmm love the body but not to sure about the head. It might need more work. 

All the brushes I used today. Did I say a lot of brushes. lol. Had one for each color. 

Tom Needham Nice job

Al Beyer Large canvas 3’x4′

 

Ruth Pearls 

Rachel Millers

Jeremy’s. 

Dawns

Cathe Dennis

Alexis who’s really improving a lot. 

Fred’s mad women 

Vanessa’s 

Mary DOnnan

Ilania who is usually the model. She’s really improving too. 
And that’s all folks. 

Margaret xoxoxo

 I started this in the mountains a week ago….finally finished it last nite while listening to the elections…what a nail biter!!   This little journal page is about 8×10″.   I hope to do more of them and bind them together into a journal book hinging the individual pages into it.

Painted on 280# arches paper with Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith watercolors…lovely paper.  More about that in a minute! The colors are from Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.

 

If you check out the bat on the top right it only has one tooth.  The long triangle was supposed to be a highlight of white but I decided to lift another tooth off the bat as you can see in the last picture.

I used masking tape to tape off a triangle shape.  Then I wet a clean Mr Clean eraser and wiped the color off.  I also got rid of the spot on the right below the bat as well as lifted some color off the candy.  It cleaned right down to the white of the paper like John Salminen said it would.

TTYL …Margaret who will have an bedtime early tonite after a sleepless nite last nite…well as soon as the two shots of expresso and the four cups of caffeinated tea and the cup of kombucha, fermented tea wear off…lol

 

 

Anybody who has a lab knows this look and way of laying on the floor. She’s interested in food. 

My neighbors actually think my lab is called Biscuit because I call Biscuit Biscuit trying to lure her back to the house. She adores biscuits and is very partial to Cracker Barrel Biscuit with or without butter. 

You do know a biscuit is a vehicle for putting butter in your mouth don’t you?! 
Drawn with a fine tip pentel pen. Colored w a tombow red and brown marker. 

Ttyl 

Margaret xoxox who is NOT watching the election returns. Nope you can’t make me.