Day 1144 Teaching a Watercolor class.

Got a feeling there are going to be more roses in my future. This is the Rose I painted along with the class. Lots of discussion of types of paper, brushes and types of paint. This was painted with three colors. Rose Madder, cad yellow and thalo blue. A lot of wet on wet technique.

Student Ann Gilmore’s very first watercolor ever. She did a great job!!

I showed them how to use saral. As my friend Raisin said, “We are not here to learn to draw. We are here to paint!!”

Students get a deer in the headlight look when you mention draw. Just like anything done well it takes practice and most people think you should be born drawing. With saral you can blow up a photo and transfer it easily to paper or canvas.

Zoe loves the new quilt.

Ttyl. Margaret binding a quilt xoxox

Day 1143 Nancy Couick

Watching a YouTube video by Nancy Couicks class on what u can do with an iPhone and iPad for painting. She has a plug in drive that will read your camera cards and add them to your iPad OR PHONE!!! I need I need. $29

There are a lot of other tips too. Well worth the watch.

Day 1142 Alex Baldwin 

Alex Baldwin ( FOR SALE at Wolf and Finch Gallery!!) won the Emmy for  best supporting actor last night so I had to repost this. He was awesome. Cracked me up when he said “I suppose I should say Mr President here is your Emmy! ” what else can I say. Drawn live off of CBS Sunday Morning. I meant to draw A,ex but he wanted me to draw him and DT.
So here’s Mr Baldwin in all his DT glory. BYTW SNL won too. Banner night for them!

Drawn with a pentel brush pen on arches cold press 300#. Painted alle prima with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Ttyl Margaret teaching a watercolor class. eeeekkk! Xoxoxo

Day 1141 live sketching 

This girl had a beautiful voice. Not sure of her name but she’s from Killeen Tx. Background is Caran dache neocolor ii that I sprayed with a fine mister spray bottl. BYTW it’s great for cooling off to when you are hot. B

I didn’t get back downtown to draw more of the bands but I did do some street sketches. It was just to darn hot this year. I was dripping when I went with my family yesterday. I ducked into Wolf and Finch. Dare I say the show looked amazing. Never seen anything as cutting edge in Augusta. Wonderful provocative art. I hope you got to stop by! 
Margaret cheering for Alex Baldwin who won the emmys best supporting actor xoxox 

Day 1136 Show at Wolf and Finch

the group show will have four of my mixed media pieces and about ten urban sketches aka watercolors. All the art in the show displayed will be $200 or less.

Wolf and Finch is at 859 Broad Street near the Commons are where the Food Vendors and two of the stages are during the arts in the heart Festival.

Thinking I need a tshirt that says I survived Irma. What do u think Augusta?! Mostly howling gusts with a monsoon of rain that lasted for ten hours or so. That Irma. What a capricious hurricane. Still over cast here so maybe we have. Of see. The tail end of her yet?! Ttyl devices charge. Dogs are hungry. Got to head home!!

Hugs Margaret xoxoxox ps these videos were taken from my backporches.

Of course the minute I noticed the trees going crazy the huge gusts would be gone by the Time I got to the window to take a video. Sigh.

Day 1135 More Mixed Media

He Came To Me In A Dream. This is really a pale blue. NO idea why the photo looks like this. Chalk it up to doesn’t photograph well.

Masking tape acrylic paint caran dache neocolor ii and Prismacolor pencil.

Xoxoxox margaret getting ready to make friends with the leftovers of Irma. I HOPE it’s the leftovers.