Day 933 Urban Sketching

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017Leave a comment

Went sketching downtown with my sweet friend AC Daniel. We ended up at the Soy Noodle house eating. Gotta keep your strength up. So far this is my fav sketch done that day. It looks terrible after I painted it but turned it into a journal page with the lettering.

Stillman and Birn Zeta Pentel Brush Pen and Lamy EF. My whisky painter travel palette and waterbrushes.

Wish I had taken a photo of it before the lettering. The brown was just dullllll.

Pleased to announce Augusta is having its first Urban Sketchers meeting. Hopefully Sunday February 12 at Earthfare Meeting Room at 1 pm. Click on the link to join our facebook page, to keep up to date, and to see our art!!! Lots of sketching will be going on.
Ttyl

Margaret xoxoxo who had to work on her sketchbookskool homework.

Day 932 – Al Beyer

February 6, 2017February 7, 2017Leave a comment

I drew this during art history lecture last Wednesday. Not meant to look like him exactly just the essence and to take notes on the lecture about how to compose a painting and be sure you get all the parts in perspective. When people are added the heads have to line up on your sight line or they will appear to float. Check out John Salimen, another great art teacher. He’s a master at composing from photos with many national and international art awards. His new coffee table book is just gorgeous.

His DVD on urban landscapes explains how to compose a picture from several photos.

Painted with my tiny whiskey painter palette loaded with Windsor newton travel Paullette colors. Refilled with Daniel Smith using the same colors plus DS quin coral.

A bientot Happy Mondayoff to class I go.

Margaret xoxox

Day 931 Panera on a Sunday

February 5, 2017Leave a comment

The Panera on Robert C Daniel Parkway was jam packed last week. It was much multiracial than the Evans Panera is.

This is the first sketch I did there. Not perfect but hey it gets you out of the house.

This one was better. I just dropped people in as they wandered by. Lettering could be a little darker.

Ted Nuttalls transparent watercolor palette. Lamy Safari Stillman and Birn Zeta.

Time to go do some urban sketching.

Xoxoxo Margaret

Day 930 – Saturdays in Aiken

February 4, 2017February 4, 2017Leave a comment

Maggie’s Van Gogh aka Ilaina. 24×30″ acrylic

Sorry for no progress photos. I left my phone in the car lost under the seat!! Thank goodness Rachel found it for me. Cars do eat telephones.

She came together really fast. By first break Ilaina was mostly done. So I decided to paint the background to fill up it most especially the chair. I had a lot of green paint on my brush left over from the drape and decided to put it on the chair. LOVED The look. Added some thalo blue for shadows using a huge 14 bristle filbert. I decided to spread the thalo around with dabs on the figure.

And then I painted the rest of the background. Nothing too focused. Just colors.

Colors used cobalt and thalo blue, pyrrole red, nickel azo gold, titanium white, Winsor violet, primary yellow, Indian yellow

Love the peachy tones in Drew Murphys soft painting

Al Beyer’s oil. He was in an odd spot behind the chair which made her head quite tiny.

Lady who painted next to me.

Tom Needham’s small watercolor.

Dawns large oil. And that’s all I had time to take pics of

Progress on Looking Down -Ponce City Market.

My friend Drew Murphys awesome elephant painting.

Here it is earlier last week. Ruth and I told him to take the buckets out. Like it better without.

Ttyl off to run errands.

Margaret xoxox

Day 929 Solo Show time

February 3, 2017Leave a comment

‪Solo show Friday Feb 10, 4P Studio, Pleasant Home & Washington Roads, Augusta. Hope to see you there !!

Did I say sooo busy here getting ready for this and Wet Paint Party Feb 18. I might need a nap.

Getting done. Looking down.

My friend Drew Murpheys great elephant painting in progress.
Ttyl

Margaret xoxoxo

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Day 928 Getting Squirrely

February 2, 2017Leave a comment

The back porch squirrels and their antics are always fun to sketch. A ready model. Cheap. Will work for bird seed anywhere anytime anyplace. And of course I like to imagine what they are thinking as they gobble. Really need to name them Oreck and Dyson or Hoover. Miele?!

Drawn with a Lamy Safari in a Stillman and Birn Zeta mixed media.

Colors. Background Quinn gold squirrels cerulean Piemonte ultramarine. Splattered with Quin sienna or burnt orange.

Have a go at the squirrels. The back porch birds are fun to draw too. Use some gestures. It doesn’t have to look just like a particular squirrel it just had to look like a squirrel – the way they hold their food and hunch up over thier paws or spread their tails. Fun stuff.

Ttyl

Margaret off to look downtown and see what there is to sketch in this 72 degree day of sunshine. Xoxoxo

Day 927 Inner Bean again

February 1, 2017February 1, 20172 Comments

But I was drawing lunch not drawing the restaurant. First piece of cake from Inner Bean in months. I used to eat cake there a lot. Not since I have lost 30 lb.

Worst thing about drawing your food is that you can’t eat it til you draw it. I got

The delicious strawberry cake first. Before the salad. And I was hungry. I resisted. Did I say Inner Bean is famous for its cake? They won Best Cake in Augusta recently. The cake is Just THE best.

Ttyl

Margaret with a busy week. Getting ready for My solo show next week. Xoxox