10×25 foot mural 1943 Oil and house paint.

I don’t know if you have ever seen the Jackson Pollock movie with Ed Harris as Pollock but it’s a must see. I have always loved Jackson Pollock. I love to splatter and drip. To see this HUGE mural yesterday was totally unexpected a BIG thrill. Sooo well worth the $8 I spent on admission. WHe made the yellow pink and red drips by thinning the artist oil paint and slinging it across the surface. The white was probably the last layer added. It is casein house paint not oil paint. He worked on this over the summer of 1943. Oil takes a few days to dry. The thicker it is the longer it takes to dry. Just think lucky Peggy Guggenheim got to live with this everyday in her NYC apartment. Did I say I am jealous of Peggy?! The completion date.

The piece de resistance his signature. 😳😳😳😳 A couple of Diebenkorn lithographs too!! Thrill thrill. I love Diebenkorn. The second one is from his Ocean Park series. NOT my favorite of his wonderful opus BUT hey it’s a Diebenkorn. I will take it. Diebenkorn often used house paint too. San Francisco Abatract Expressionist. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

A gorgeous Robert Henri who just incidentally taught anybody who was somebody in early 1900s American painting.

Fairfield Porter Charles Reid’s hero who is my hero. Does that mean Fairfield is my grand hero?! Looks a lot like Charles flower oil paintings.

Loved These two but forgot to take a pic with their names. The great Claude Monet. Looks like out my window on foggy mornings.

Wonder if they would let me borrow this angel about three feet. These could fit into my eclectic house. and this was just odd.

They had a whole HUGE wall full of colorful Mao Zedong Andy Warhol heads. Why didn’t I take a pic of those?!

If you Can make It To The Columbia Art Museum hurry up and go. You will be glad you did.

Margaret off to bed. Xoxoxoxo

And who doesn’t need a drink to top off the week or start the weekend?!

Currently I am in love with a rusty nail first fixed for me by Alan my friend Mikes husband. I am a big fan of liquor on the rocks or straight out of the bottle as long as it’s great liquor.

This one is made with Johnny Walker. The Black label is $60 at the discount liquor store. 😳

Ps I did think is people can draw their morning tea cups I can draw my favorite evening drink and it was fun to add the recipe plus a few factoids.

First go round. Didn’t like the lay out

I always thought it was whiskey. NOPE it’s scotch. And Drambouie is scotch liqueur. No doubt $50 a bottle.

I drew it with the pentel brush pen a Lamy joy with a calligraphy nib, a Lamy Safari, and a Lamy Vista. I bought them all on amazon for $25 or less.

Can you tell which one did which writing/ drawing?!

Superaquabee tablet and watercolor pencils

Margaret off to finish her endless errand list. Xoxoxo

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Shoot me.

Our model Jessica was sitting on top of a stool on top of a table.

Half sheet hot press fluid 140#

What a challenge. You have to leave it to Professor Joe to cook up some oh so challenging hard to draw poses.

Too big head!

Made for weird proportions. I spent more time drawing and revising -1 hr 20 min – than I did painting. Her legs were still too heavy at second break. The head was better but still a little big. Draw draw draw. Eeekkk! Jessica is really not a very big girl. Maybe 5’1 110 lb at the most.

Did I say I hated reed raring the head. Once you get a likeness you hate to oops erase it.

The way I left Jessie yesterday. The peanut gallery said she needed a stool so she got one today. I darkened a few of the lighter areas and especially her left arm which was back in shadow. With no photo reference it wasn’t easy.

the Head was so small I really didn’t want to do many details. Colors used burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine cerulean cobalt. And that’s it.

My friend Drew Murphys 2×3′ acrylic

A few other watercolors of Jessie. One Saturday life modeling. The rest are a session at Dr Sketchys .

Margaret out running errands.

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The Canadian geese nesting on the old rice paddy down the street. About six of them live here guarding their eggs on the island in the middle of the paddy. Waiting for rhe geese to dry. I painted too much yellow ochre across their breast and had to daub it off with paper towel. Not the best sketch of the geese. I am blaming it on Zoe pulling on the leash. She finally wrapped me in the cord. Pentel brush pen on 300# Kilimanjaro cold press

Here’s one of them.

I watched this YouTube while I was having my morning cuppa. He draws with pentel throw away brush pens. Maybe if I practice more I will draw like he does one day.

Margaret Xoxoxoxo off to Aiken to life model. Xoxoxox

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Flocking to the feeders.

I decided to challenge myself and use the water brush on the watercolor pencil.

It worked MUCH better this way than it did with the pan Watercolors.

You really can get a lot of juicy color out of the watercolor pencils when you wet them. These are

Faber castell durer, derwent, and inktense watercolor pencils

Margaret off for a walk on this cold day. Bad me ordered a Lamy not on amazon. I hear they are divine. We shall see.

I am loving my Lamy al-Star F for quite a while now. Draws and writes so smoothly.

Xoxoxoxo

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How she looks. Is. Has played. Ed to work on it more til I got the big drip.

First forty min. TOOOO small. Didn’t fill the half sheet up.

I spent the day getting red orange all over everything when I opened the palette to see if I needed more paint. I didn’t but that red orange lept out. Allover my top my purse my shoe. Dropped thru a hole in the shoe onto my foot. Even on one of the kitchen chairs.

Second forty min. Did I say I started over?!

And to make Matters perfect after struggling over the foreshortened drawing for the first two sessions I finally had it right only to get an red orange blob in her black hair. Then I got a hideous drip. The wrong way when I turned the painting to fix her hair.

Groan. Maybe I will finish her maybe NOT. Leaning toward the NOT.

Tom Needham Watercolor

Bill Daniels oil on arches oil paper

Coach’s charcoals.

Jermey Sutherland

Al Beyer oil

DrewMurphy acrylic. He was so funny. He said it looked like he had gotten out his crayons and used them. Oopsey.

Margaret xoxoxo annoyed with herself. I guess you can’t catch all the drips.

A twenty minute sketch. 10×14. A lot of drawing for that short period of time.

Pentel brush pen

10×14″ superaquabee sketchbook Charles Reid palette

been busy baking instead of painting today and postings. Oopsey. And enjoying the new sofa with a long nap.