Don Henley of The Eagles. I think he needs more Wrinkles. But what gorgeous blue eyes. He is painted with watercolors. Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus cerulean. The beard is painted with cerulean and turquoise. 

The background and letters are painted with gouache. Yellow,  pyrrole red, and white. 

The sketch. I did add a smudge to the left hairline on the forehead. It was too square. 

I like the contrast of the gouache with the transparent watercolors. I am thinking about adding a list of their songs to the background to fill up the empty spot between the head and the letters. 

And a big oops. They were talking about  band member Glenn Frey on CBS when I was drawing this. My poor brain decided to write his name instead of Dons. Oops. Great G though. So I had to use the gouache to paint it out. It was either that or some ledger pages. 

Key West  is looming. 

Off I go. Ttyl. 

Margaret on the road again. Xoxoxo

Not my best. May require more work. Gouache painting of one of our fav restaurants in Brevard Mayberrys. Awesome

Cheese cornbread and vegeterian chili. Tonite sunset out then back door. Truly spectacular. That’s the cold front roaring into Augusta forcing a bank of sin drenched clouds ahead of it. 

I looked outside a minute later (I swear just one minute) and it was gone. 

Zoe trying to get my attention.

Today’s morning sketch of Eagles Band member Don Henley. 

Oops. They were talking about his friend and fellow band member Glenn when I started writing DoNs name. Now I broke it and I have to fix it. Sigh. 

Let the painting begin. 

Margaret off the Key West tomorrow and would pack if she had any clothes that fit for 82 degree weather. Guess I will shop when I get there. 

A lot

Of fun. Eyes are too high but it looks like him at least. Eyes should always be in the middle of the head.  Oh well. 

The ink sketch. Guess when you are as old as they are it doesn’t matter?!  Lol. 

Ttyl 

Margaret enjoying a rainy day. 

Not the best sketch but a bit of Sunday fun drawn while watching Mick on CBS Sunday Morning. I can pause the tv and draw. If it weren’t suppose to be Mick I would say this was a great sketch. Background is gouache. Face is painted with watercolor. 
Here’s the sketch. Done w a pentel brush pen in my Stillman and Birn Mixed Media Sketchbook. Lettering done with a Kuretake brush pen. It has a heavier line. 
Ttyl time to paint. 
Margaret xoxox enjoying this rainy Sunday 

Hanging guys out with my peeps in Aiken at USCA sketching nekkid people I mean at life modeling. Always fun times hanging out with other artists.  

Sarah 20 minute warm up sketch 12×16 Canson mi-teintes paper pentel brush pen and watercolor.  Really like this one a lot. Instead doing one large acrylic painting today I decided to do some pen and ink sketches in watercolor because I had done so well at Dr Sketchys Wednesday nite nailing the proportions over and over.

Sarah without splatters. So while I was on a roll I decided to continue. 

The pose was odd because she was raised up about four feet high. Since I am only five feet one I had an odd view. Told Al I needed a box to stand on. But I persevered and like this one. Fun playing with her hair. 

Go round #2 from a slightly different angle. I could actually see her arm. After about thirty minutes. I started over because I mismeasured. The knob to the right of her left breast is a foot or a knee all I could see of them. Ruth said it looked like a growth so I painted it over. Don’t know if I should have stopped while I was ahead but here she is with perhaps another 2o minutes painting. 

Al Beyer’s large oil
Jeremy’s delicate conte crayon. Just lovely. 

A lovely pastel. Forgot the lady’s name. Sorry. 

Cathe’s. Always like her wispy paintings. 

Alexis a new era charcoal. Good job. 

Rachel Millers a newbie to watercolor. She shames us all with her talent. 

Tom Needham’s watercolor. 
Fred’s zany woman. For once not angry. 

Sad I won’t be going for the next three weekends. Key West then Atlanta for Christmas. Be back in the New Year. 

A bientôt! 

Margaret dreaming of Paris xoxoxo

Our model last nite at Dr Sketchys was Paul “DJ Codec” who designs, orchestrates, creates the great awesome sometimes whacky music that accompanies each session of D Sketchys. 

When it was announced who was modeling for us I had thought perhaps not a great model but I have to say he was terrific. Lots of interesting poses to draw and he held them like a rock. Best model in quite a while. 

And who doesn’t klove a guy in a kilt? Great legs Paul!  Ok no kilt sketches? In a minute. 

This pose presented problems because he was working the music and moving the whole time. The easiest way to draw this was to set the body size measuring heads both body length and width FIRST! 

Then I drew body parts. He might change his head but once it was set I didn’t change it. 

 Same with his arms when he moved  them I didn’t change them.  And of course he never moved his legs. 

Double trouble drawn in ten twelve minutes. Princess Augusta the Beautiful Elf and Santa Paul. 

I set the angle on his head first. As I draw I am always looking at angles and negative shapes. Also dropping plumb lines from say a shoulder to the knee to get bod parts where they Belong. 

Title inspired by one of the tunes Paul was spinning. 

The Warmup Sketches. 

The next three were very quick so I am always pleased when they turn our mostly right aka in proportion which these did especially since earlier in the day I was NOT drawing well with my Carbon Platinum pen which I love to sketch with lately. 

So these are all drawn with my pentel brush pen which smeared when I tried to add Tombw markers to them so I quickly got out my hand held large watercolor box from Charles Reid’s class and used it hoping not to turn the faces NOT into grey mud like the tomboys were doing.  

As you can see in the first two sketches above the watercolors with a pentel water brush were the answer. I did not bring even ONE good sable brush. Eek! But Dr Sketchys is partly the fine art of making do. And I did with good results. 

So I may go back and watercolor these quick sketches. My own coloring book. 👍🏻😃

Sketchbook used – my big superaquabee 10″ x14″  which LOVES ink and watercolor. 

On his knee. 

This was a three minute warm up sketch. Face is terrible but proportions great. Maybe watercolor would improve this? 

Tomorrow part two. The best are yet to come. And they really tuned out well. Thinking of using one for my annual Christmas card. 

Ttyl 

Margaret xoxoxox 

Still using Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus cerulean for greys. I decided to paint the background with quin gold to brighten the page. The cookies have a lot of small dots down with my #6 Isabel which has a very sharp point. Still a little large but oh well. 

Lettering is done w the same 6 Isabey and deartrementis document brown a good fall color.

 Greys are quin sienna and cerulean or a brighter blue that dwells on my palette next to cerulean. Looks very close in color but brighter when u use it. 

This is the back of the page. A page meant to be entertaining for a two year old and a four year old. My grandchildren Henry and Livia. I left a wide gutter on this back because sooner or later I hope to do enough if these to bind them into a journal of our days at the cabin. 

No quin gold background. Like it better gold. 
Ttyl. Time for yoga at the Y. 
Margaret xoxox