Best food I have eaten in maybe ever at the Corner Kitchen in Asheville. So good.

And the tiny Biltmore Estate agents house in Biltmore Village that is now the restaurant is so charming and adorable. Tiny rooms. A tiny stair up to the second floor dining rooms all two of them each maybe 8×10 – room for five tables and a waitress.

But the fireplace. Sooner or later I will sit in the other room and draw that darned tiled early 1900s fireplace.

Food is killer. Just THE best and well worth a drive to Asheville just to eat at the Corner Kitchen.

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Same watercolor pencils as yesterday. Lamy EF Stillman and Birn Alpha.

Margaret who should be at life modeling but whose freaking out over our show next month at the Aiken Center for the Arts. Think HUGE framing bill. Twenty plus paintings. Xoxoxox

I think there’s a Facebook page for that.

Where I park my car when I get my hair cut downtown at the sixth hundred block of broad parking.

I. M. Pie the architect designed that weird temple triangle skylight covered addition on top of the tallest building the Lamar building I think.

Always like how the morning light hits the buildings and makes them glow.

Off to see the Mule with Clint Eastwood filmed here in Aigusta and also in my sons neighborhood in Decatur. His next door neighbor was the chicken wrangler for the movie. Aka he kept the chickens when they weren’t on set. He has a backyard full of wonderfully fluffy clucks.

Colors used – see above Watercolor pencils. Lamy Vista Noodler Eelskin Black stillman and birn alpha – almost full!!

Margaret xoxoxo where it will be 70 again today.

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Another drawing with people standing and sitting Aron d that I love. Just a few lines but they capture the people. Colored with faber castell Watercolor pencils. Lamy EF Noodler Eelskin Black stillman and Birn alpha almost full.

Thinking about putting the ladies on the right sitting at the table at Betsy’s yesterday that was empty.

Or maybe they would prefer one of the restaurants on Laurens with sunny tables?!

A good use for sketchbook drawings in finished art I think.

Why doesn’t Augusta have all these restaurants with sidewalk dining. Or maybe they aren’t all so close together?!

If it’s a reasonably warm sunny day I always chose outside tables.

Thought you might like to see what I did with that Christmas page. Always a sad day when you clean out the last of Christmas at least to me.

I journaled about Christmas under Henry’s bookmark that he made for me.

Fun adding the fold out pages. I will add washi tape to the bookmark when I dig it out.

I did the same thing with the sketch that Livie gave me on my Christmas stocking. It’s on the left side. And folds out too. This time so you can see her collaged pages. She will get washi tape too. Livie loves washi tape.

Margaret xoxoxo sad to see Christmas go. Knitters at EarthFare Malias #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #georgia #allaprima #neocolorii #carandache #stillmanandbirn #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #charlesreid #urbansketcher #urbansketchingaugusta #urbansketching #mixedmediajournal

Work in progress. Macy 15×22″ on hot press fluid. She still needs a lot of work. I fiddled around painting her today. Scared of the hot press Paper perhaps??! Or just slow today?!

I was pleased to see that the fluid hot press dried flat because it was so waffly. Great paper.

Colors used

Cad red light cad mineral violet ultramarine pink burnt sienna peacock and cerulean for figure.

Background. Alizarin peacock mineral violet burnt sienna quin gold hookers. It will get at least one more layer over most of the background.

And something under the hand. First break forty minutes . Second break first washes when I left. She was very damp waffling the paper. Drew Murphy 2×3″ acrylic

Coach charcila. You knew that.

Rich Klein oil painting the studio

Bill Daniels oil w palette knife on metal

Zany Fred is back!! 🤗

Al Beyer oil

I know her name sadly but sadly it’s flown from My tired brain right now.

Drew and I are probably having a show at the Aiken Center for the Arts in February so I spent the afternoon hiking all over town taking photos.

Charlotte life’s to be petted

A nice couple walking their geese down Laurens. 😎 The geese love to be petted. They get excited and shiver. Soooo soft.

I want a Charlotte!! So does Zoe.

Sunny day Needs must.

Back to my nap!! Margaret xoxoxo Macy #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #southcarolina #aiken #allaprima #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #holbein #charlesreid #lifemodel

A challenge to draw a pile of the grandkids toys. I think I have said before that you better draw FAST because they might grab the toy. Oopsey. Then you are sunk.

I colored these with a pack of dollar general colored pencils I bought over the holidays. They worked very well for cheap pencils.

Sunset out my back door

Drawn with my Lamy Joy Ef. A yummy smooth drawing pen. Aka it doesn’t drag on the paper.

Reflected sunset. Always fascinated me that the sunset reflects all over the river.

And it fascinated me that it only last a few minutes. This is pretty just not glorious like the earlier one.

Margaret still feeling rotten bingeing Marie Kondo and youtube. She will get you up and cleaning.

https://youtu.be/anlMSrCZPqE. Don’t know if u watch YouTube. This wc video is very interesting. She has at least one more not watched yet.

Xoxoxox Margaret

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Right now Mona is my number one choice to enter in the Georgia Watercolor Show.

My Kehinde Wiley. He’s the guy who paints large oil portraits with fantastic figures backgrounds – Fields of Flowers etc. A good example of his work is the controversial Obama presidential portrait.

She’s also been waiting for a background since hmm since August!!

First wash of quin gold over all the flowers.

I didn’t use any masking fluid which a lot of people would have done. I just hate bothering with it.

This was how I left Mona last night. Three layers of quin gold hookers green and a dab of burnt sienna mix.

I debated with my friend Ruth Pearl about adding a wash of peacock Blue all over the background. It’s transparent so wouldn’t darken it a lot but add color to the oh so bright flowers.

I also had a scraggly edge problem which would not be good if I were the judge.

I used my flat synthetic Robert Simmons Sapphire brush to lift the edge. Lol and behold it started lifting very well. Gotta love fluid cold press paper. I realized I could spread the lifted green gold to color the flowers and make them recede a bit.

And that’s how I got here.

Margaret who needs to clean up the mess she made but first I better do my entry right?! Xoxoxo

Drew a picture of my Christmas tree today so I could remember it when I take it down.

Worst part was finding a good green to draw the tree. I needed spruce green but that would have been too easy right. Splattered also with brush loaded with damp watercolor pencils.

The Lettering is not really on the page. I added it with a program called Rhianna on my phone.

I think I will journal about this Christmas on the left page. Rather memorable our first one at the mountain cabin in Sapphire NC – a lovely spot to celebrate it.

I drew the tree with my trusty watercolor pencils. I started by drawing a tree shape. Then the ornaments and garland. I should have done the lights next oh well.

While drawing I listened to a couple of great Christmas shows one on PBS called Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas about the all the Christmas songs written by Jewish writers -White Christmas -Irving Berlin Do You Hear What I Hear,” “Silver Bells,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Winter Wonderland,” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” and “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”

And The Man Who Invented Christmas about Charles Dickens on Amazon who single handedly revived Christmas.

Both well worth a watch or a listen.

Margaret plotting her show at the Aiken Arts Center next month. Xoxoxo

Sometimes it’s fun to draw a collection. This time it’s Christmas candy collages with bits of epherma I keep to add to the page.

Before I splattered it. Did you know you can splatter with a watercolor pencil?!! Just dip the paint brush in a lot of water and then swipe it across the “lead”. It will get juicy and add color for splatters. First time I did that with a watercolor pencil.

I went back and did it to Lucy Dog too. I think it needed a little color don’t you?! I also darkened the letters.

before splattering.

Back to my tv binge. Alternating between the Romanoffs and Mrs Maisel. So far Mrs Maisel is soooo much better but Romanoffs ep 1 was rather wonderful set in Paris with lots of French dialogue for me to try to comprenne. And I did une petite peu. Xoxoxoxo