Why do I forget to post.

The painting so far. 15×22″ Fabriano cold press paper. I think I will only paint veggies. Back to Glow on Netflix. Binge time. Love those Glow ladies.

Margaret and Zoe who have tucked up in bed for the night. Xoxoxo

The peanut gallery has some critique to make. 🤗 aka my friends who I txt about our watercolors and paintings.

Going to have to be a little more deliberate with my brush strokes aka don’t break it to fix it because I spent a lot of time today fixing it. Never a good idea.

I lightened up Barney aka the eggplant a lot by wetting it and blotting it with a Kleenex.

Also added sloppy dots here and there. There are three in this photo. So much easier than painting a la Charles.

A sloppy dot is when u add watery dots of color to the painting. Mostly I used cerulean and a bit of burnt sienna

Already drawn another. Will start it tomorrow. Ok Fabriano this time. It is better paper.

Hoping this one behaves better.

Zoe pic of the day.

Margaret off to dr Sketchys soon. Xoxoxo

When your paining doesn’t go right. I am blaming the paper. And Ps I HATE HATE HATE Lilies 🤪

This is a half sheet of fluid. The same thing I painted the nude of Emily on Saturday. So what happened. Not a clue.

I got hard lines. I am going to eat that big purple Barney of an eggplant. I knew I shoulda erased it. When I tried to lift I got blooms. Oh and there’s that nice run from the Apple to the lemon NOT!! Yuck.

That said I do like the daisies and the scissors. The white flowers are done by negative paintjng around the back of the petals with yellow ochre cerulean and cad orange. Or the color of the flower behind it.

Colors used above in my palette.

So Zoe and I are going to take a nap. And maybe it will look better later ttyl. Margaret xoxoxo

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As Charles Reid says but first a quick blog post before I finish my nap.

Sitting Bull is done. Now for sale. He was not quite finished when I left class in Savannah.

Friday when I left him. Darkened the background and finished him.

And I added some darks to the flowers and lifted some greens. Straightened the biz of grits. More greens to strawberry tops.

Monday two weeks ago. Hard to believe it’s been that long.

A sketch of some of my class mates. I like to fill my class notes with sketches of people in class so I remember them. I often run into them again in another class. So you never know.

Back to my nap. Zzzzzz xoxoxox Margaret and Zoe who’s napping too.

Emily 15×22″ cp fluid paper

Calling her done.

The sketch. Her hand gave me a terrible time.

This is what she looked like when I left Aiken yesterday.

I didn’t like the way her chin ran into her neck with no contrast to make the chin jut a little so I dumped it into iPhoto and turned it black and white to check the tones. The tone under the chin was the same as the tone on her chin just like I thought.

So I added a dab or cad red light to her face and got rid of her sprig hair and fussed a hands. Added leg shadow foot shadow.

So now there is a dab of contrast between the chin and the neck. Was afraid if I added more I would ruin the paintjng.

Drew Murphy’s 2×3′ acrylic at first break.

Second break.

Here she is when he left. Gorgeous paintjng.

Amy’s nice oil. 2×3′

Always think it’s interesting how a move to the left or right changes the view so much. She was directly to Drews left.

Thomas Needham’s delicate watercolor.

Al Beyer’s 3×4 oil.

Fred’s joyful painting. 2×3′ acrylic

Coachs charcoal. About 40 minutes. He was just to my right.

Margaret who’s cleaned house and going to paint the afternoon away. Xoxoxox

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Ms Tracy Culbertson the owner of Art in the Mountains who sponsored and ran the Charles Reid workshop in Savannah.

A really fun lady!! She and her assistant Marty kept the workshop organized and moving. Marty and Tracy in our pedicab when we all went to Blick.

They were also in charge of organizing fun after class like the ghost tour.

Check out her website for more workshops.

Using the same colors as yesterday in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.

Margaret xoxoxo ready for bed.

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Charles Reid first page in my Charles Reid class sketchbook.

I drew this while he sat giving us critiques last Wednesday.

Mr. Handsome.

I took a photo of him after I drew it so I could paint it later.

And I dumped the photo into free Waterlogue ap on my iPhone. Makes u look like a great wc painter. And it’s quick.

Colors used:

And I tried to do what Charles said t do “Mix the color on the paper! ” which leaves a very clean palette when you are done.

Off To get a salad at chic fil a. Margaret and Zoe xoxoxo wondering why they aren’t organic.

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Strawberry time. App. 8×22″300# cp Fabriano

I actually painted this a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. Should I say finally. I drew it days before.

The seeds. I actually used masking fluid applied with a toothpick. Not something I am fond of using but couldn’t think how else to keep the white seeds. Not fond of it because it makes a too regular hard edge.

I had wanted the peacock blue background lighter but it didn’t look good so I added splatter in both manganese and ultramarine and double painted the wash on the background.

Do you know how hard it is to run a wash down both sides of a painting at the same time. Just shoot me.🤪 Pencil sketch follows. The ink sketch in my stillman and birn sketchbook. I did think about adding words to the darker one but I think it might be too dark to do that too. Of course I left the it in Atlanta so I can’t write on it anyway til I get back up there for my grandsons birthday in a couple of weeks.

It will be for sale when I bring the berries home.

Colors used pyrrole red quin gold and alizarin on strawberries. Shadows ultramarine and more quin gold and I think purple.

Greens chrome green quin gold and Viridian. Charles Reid greens. Cost me a lot to learn those two colors. 😅

Margaret and Zoe staying out of the heat. Xoxoxox

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