by Kathleen Durdin

You knew you would see more of the Georgia Watercolor Show. Here it is. Still have a few more to post.

Chris Krupinski an award winner

Ally Benbrush- Wild dunes

Judy Mizell-Morning Commute

Richard Clark

Kim M??

Daniela Werneck- The Girl with popcorn Dress

??? Love the Klimt look.

??? Hate I can’t read the label or the signature. S something or other.

Renee Maciejewski -Two Pigs

Janine Helton-Branching out

T Something Nelson- Night Life

Jacob “Jake” Leibovite Next Stop Brazzavilla?

Honey and I have been having a distressing time. Surgery for a huge licknoma. Now she’s got an enormous infected lymph node third course of antibiotics in six weeks.

Hoping the cipro will knock it out but who knows at this point?! Of course it’s probably not cancer a big plus in our lives. When your voracious flabrador wont eat you do worry and rush her to the vet AGAIN! Especially when you find a knot on her tummy bigger than your fist.

Hopefully she’s on the mend. Now I am going to turn this into a bigger watercolor. Half sheet I think.

The original photo. For once I drew her from a photo. I love the rug in this pic and the light on it. Got to do better retaining my lights on the rug and Honey. Oopsey. Small size pages so easy to loose hem.

Ultramarine and burnt umber for the blacks. Quin gold on rig and floor. Rug – alizarin marine blue cobalt French ultramarine quin gold. Shadows cobalt ultramarine blue. Eyes and floor quin burnt orange. Serpentine green background.

I used a white gel pen because I killed some of my highlights especially the white around her eye. Oops.

Margaret xoxoxox in Augusta minus a jillion avid Masters golf fans. They have gone home. HURRAH!!!

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The judge and the teacher. Most of these state and national shows have a class that members can take. This time Kathryn Conover was teaching and have a great demo yesterday of using her gesso juice to save bad watercolors we all have.

Her talk was both entertaining and loaded with info.

Her mantra was never throw out a painting no platter how bad. Wet Layer two

Slather it with gesso juice and reuse the paper. Dry Layer Three toned with some quin gold green gold and some watercolor stick scribbles.

Before I added soft lead scribbles which. I smeared with my finger.

Gesso juice is 1/2 acrylic gesso, 1/4 gel medium and 1/4 water. Mix gesso and gel then add water till it’s a whip cream consistency.

Slather on the gesso juice and stir up the old watercolor. Let it dry.

Slather on more gesso juice. And scrape it with that famous art tool a cut up credit card making marks that you let dry into gesso juice.

Loretta Addison Travelers Rest

She also adds stencils and stamps with wine corks when it’s dry using watercolor. It’s a push pull technique.

Davis Jones – Pemaquid Light

Kathleen said this technique turned 140# watercolor paper into 300# and gVe a great wipeable painting surface.

Rebecca Latham- Bobcat Curiosity

For more google Chaos and Order on YouTube. GWS -Georgia watercolor Society- will be posting a video of her talk soon.

To transfer her sketch she uses graphite on the back and traces it with a pen. She also uses white teachers chalk to mark off her sketch.

Alexis Levine -Making Connections

PS my sketch is all watercolor pencil and ink in my stillman and birn.

Bambi Rogers – Last Calf

Margaret who hasn’t done much today besides unpack. Xoxoxox

Larry Hughes – Kiva Oak Tree House

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Mary Ann Cox -The Candy Apple Maker

Edie Fagan-Santorini Hillside

Which means you get a whole point instead of half a point toward your GWS signature. A big deal. It takes six regular shows at half a point each or three national shows at one point each. Or a combo of the two.

John Salminen First Place an amazing teacher with more than 275 National and international awards. I have taken his abstract class and highly recommend him. His cityscape class is at the top of my want to take class list.

Another of the top prize winners. There were fifteen of them!

The show at Oglethorpe University Art Museum in Atlanta was amazing. The university is very cool. Gothic arches everywhere modeled on Corpus Christi in Oxford where the founder and First governor or Georgia went to college James Oglethorpe the colleges namesake.

My friend Karen got seventh for this marvelous tiny painting. And a load of loot!! She also got her GWS signature. On to the big time Miss Karen!

Not an award winner but I loved it so now u can too.

Lance Hunter Toxic Beauty Fosh Tails. Second prize. Is it not wonderful?! What an imagination. What a show. The work was astounding. It was like being surrounded by jewels.

A painter from Athens. Acting President. And can’t read he title. Sorry. Ninth or so?! Gorgeous skin. Loved the spray of gold in the corner. And the angle of the painting.

A California painter. John Bucklin. Lagunitas Creek.

Literally painters from every state.

And Karen and I were softies for any dog painting. Dwinda Creek Maggie’s Nap.

Another great dog painting. Even better terriers. Can’t read the name. Sorry.

Margaret off home. My own bed tonite. Xoxoxox

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I was playing at drawing a la Bemelmans Madeline books a favorite of mine as a child. This is the Paris Hotel de Ville the mayors office and City Hall. the doors and the lampposts in Paris where beautiful and ornate in Many variations. The plane trees we call them sycamores line the streets of Paris.

And the Metro. Easy cheap access to the oyster that is Paris.

Margaret still In The mountains.

Xoxoxox

Auvers sur Oise where Van Gogh painted his heart out the last few months of his life and died. Was it suicide or murder. A lot of people Now think it was murder. Starving artists don’t buy guns when they need more paint and canvas. Think about that. The Raveux inn where he died is below. If you came to his funeral you got to pick out one of his paintings. Wouldn’t that have been wonderful. I would have had a hard time choosing.

Breakfast at the Hote Rochester back In Paris. They eat odd things for breakfast like chicken legs. Hmmm.

Notre Dame in Auvers. The one made famous by Van Gogh.

Truly Margaret xoxoxox

Dress Up Day in Pre K land. My sweet Henry already to go be a lawyer in his dads tie. Funny boy said Grandma you didn’t paint my shirt right. It was a tiny tattersall plaid. Enough plaid is enough plaid.

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Earlier.

I used my pike palette from Kim Johnson’s class. Love that Daniel smith serpentine green in the background. Also love the pike palette. Seals itself and keeps the paint moist also doesn’t seem to leak when you carry it around. Hurrah. And not very expensive. I think about $20 at cheap Joes in Charlotte. ry

Laid down a first coat of light yellow in the hair for highlights. Which I eventually painted over most of them. Duh. Also wish I had not painted the blue under his nose. Never did quite get rid of that. Oops

And that’s all folks. Hopefully the silly internet in the mountains will post this. We shall see.

Margaret hanging w the grandkids. Hard to paint when they want to help. 🤗 Xoxoxo #watercolor #aquarelle #fabriano #fabrianoartistico #danielsmith #holbein #mgraham