Day 1725 Zoe time

Bought her a thunder coat so hopefully the wild storms and the howler hurricane Florence won’t drive her into full out panic mode and she can snuggle down to sleep. She makes such a neat little ball.

Been busy delivering paintjngs to Columbia for the show and speculating if we will be at Edisto Beach next week. Florence is visiting there too. This is a funky junk wind chime i got for my grandson the Dino nut. My sister and I decided they would be fun to make out of old discarded toys.

Anyway between the trip in hurricane evacuation traffic to and from Columbia and another trip to Costco and Earthfare so we don’t run out of necessity’s if the worst should happen I am let and I am exhausted.

Sepia pit pen in stillman and birn journal.

Hugs Margaret at home in her house with 58 ten foot tall concrete stilts to the granite bedrock full of concrete and rebar. And the. There’s the I beam. This house isn’t budging. Augusta will blow away before we do. Xoxoxoxo

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Day 1724 You might think it’s Saturday

But it’s not. Got invited to lifemodeling w a new group.

WIP

Emily was our model. Think her heads a bit too big. This painting is too small. Might be a quarter sheet size. No idea how I got it so small.

Maybe I will have a redo. This is Em in Waterlogue. Like it a lot.

The sketch. I could t get back far enough to judge proportions. My back was to a wall.

Second break. I spent a LONG time drawing. I shoulda left her face like this. It was too small to do the eyes. Pencil was enough.

Colors used. Skin red light cad yw light cerulean burnt sienna and dioxzine purple

Chair alizarin and ultramarine w dabs of raw umber.

Hair quin gold yellow ochre burnt sienna and raw umber.

Thomas Needham was just to my left. This is an acrylic. Did I say we both had a lot of foreshortening going on?!

Back to watching that $&@%# hurricane Florence. Edisto is no longer under mandatory evacuation. Does that mean we can go Sunday?! I hope. Xoxoxox Margaret Emily #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #southcarolina #aiken #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #holbein #drawing #sketching #lifemodel

Day 1723 Squirrels

The little buggers managed to knock the feeder down and then had the audacity to stand on their hind legs at the back sliding door as if to say hey where’s the bird seed. Silly things.

Cool wind chimes we found in St Marys

Had to drive my brother to Washington from Ga today. So add another 88 miles to the last few days of long trips. Came home and took a nap. A LONG nap. Now I am off to bed for a longer nap aka sleep all nite.

I bought the Dino one on the left. Bells and dinos!!!

Colors used on squirrels. Quin gold burnt sienna and cerulean.

Priced $14-$25. So reasonable!!

All I can say is zzzzzz and my bottom is oh so tahred. Xoxoxox Margaret

The little buggers aka squirrels. Gone to the squirrels. #outmybackdoor #nature #watercolorpencils #animals #birds #squirrel #drawing #sketchbookskool #cardinals #naturalworld #savannah #savannahriver #augusta #mixedmedia #art #artist #moleskine

Day 1722 a lot of days

To post continually. Especially when you have driven 6 hours to meet a sister you did not know existed. Doesnt it look like we are closely related…variations on-a McCarthy theme. Aka all dad’s children. Even though a year ago we did not know about each other. so another painting at Ruth’s House. Margaret who needs to go to bed. 🤗😍😘

Day 1722 flowertime!

a sweet bouquet on Ruth’s coffee table. Lamy ef, eelskin ink, Stillman and Birn Sketchbook. Charles Reid colors.

an amazing sunset tonight. Always amazes me how quickly they change.

Time to head back tomorrow. 😢

Margaret who will miss st Mary’s. Xoxoxo

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Day 1721 Moh Chatt

As in Chattanooga.too nice ladies that ate lunch next to us at Rembrandt’s down in the Bluff District. Hmmm that’s suppose to be Ruth but looks more like me. And what happened to Cheryl?! I meant to fix her with white gouache or a white gel pen. OOPs.

Captain Morse house

I actually think it’s a hoot that here I sit at the opposite end of the state in St Marys Ga at the Captain Morse house typing this. St Marys is just N of Jacksonville Fl waiting for my sister to drive up from Daytona.

The Captain Morse House is a fully-restored 1905 Victorian, located on the main street in the center of the historic St. Marys riverfront area. Suppose to be a ghost. I will let you know about that. Eeekk

Margaret xoxoxox wondering where i will be tomorrow. i know next week is Edisto and I have to go to Columbia SC and Sautee Nagoochee where ever that is to deliver paintings. i needs a nap.

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Day 1720 Midtown Atlanta

Painted with my new cute toy a portable painters palette. The two water wells come off and the palette goes inside to seal it up when u are traveling.

You can also put it across your thigh when painting out in the field. As I said fun toy. Loaded with Charles Reid colors and quin gold.

Lamy pen in my stillman and birn.

Margaret whose off to the bank. Xoxoxo

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Day 1719 Hand drawings

While I was in Atlanta I read about Suhita s saying she was going to draw 100 hands. She even has links to hand drawing resources.

I got to 8-9. Guess it’s time to draw some more hands. BUT the reason I post this is just drawing. Those few hands really helped with drawing the models hands over the last week or so.

Hmm maybe I only drew seven hands but as I said it helped. I drew Matt’s hands fairly effortlessly on Monday. Ditto Ilania on Saturday and Mona yesterday. A flurry of Peppers hands at Dr Sketchys. Mona’s hand.

So many hands to draw. And they require practice practice. Think I will do some Moh!

Ps most

Hands are painted with cad Ted light and cad yw light or French yellow ochre.

Margaret who might draw her feet tonite.

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Day 1718 Atlanta bound

When I heard that the incredible Mona Reeves was modeling I decided to go for the day. And I am glad that did. Much left to do on both of them.

Definitely getting a background. Leaning toward the main background color of either sap green or maybe a purple. And doing something like this Klimt but with African symbols. Or maybe they are Indonesian since what we think of as African fabric is made in Indonesian originally by those enterprising Dutch of the Dutch East India Trading Company.

I drew this one first but didn’t get nearly done with the painting.

But I had that Klimt stuck in my head all weekend so I drew just a 3/4 head too. Probably will use some Caran dache Neocolor ii on it also.

This was how the head looked when I left Atlanta. I studied it in the car off and on while driving home. Amazing what a glance or two can bring out errors.

The pencil lines show where I needed to add to her face and her neck. Why did I make her neck so thin. And I did it to both paintings.

Thank goodness corrections are easy on Fluid paper. When all else fails you can always add sloppy dots to a portrait. Always improves ones with problems.

Margaret who left at 6:30 am and got home at 6 pm so I am Tahred. Xoxoxo

Mona our goddess of a model today Three hours in and more to do. 16×22” fluid watercolor paper. #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #atlantaartistcenter #lostedges #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #allaprima #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #travel #travelblogger #holbein #mgraham #danielsmithwatercolors #drawing #sketching #lifemodel

Day 1717 Chattanooga Choo Choo

Chattanooga is famous for its choo as in the song. It’s almost famous for the great train race during the civil war from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Or was it Kennesaw? Just north of Atlanta.

A quick last sketch in Chattanooga standing in Niedloves parking lot. That little bubble above the sketch is the real choo Choo sign above the old station. I would have been closer to it when we ate at the station the day before but we had to get to lifemodeling.

The choo choo.

In the station. What great windows. To think they tore ours down in Augusta to build a boring block shaped post office. Sigh. And we wonder what’s wrong with Augusta?!

Margaret who made four dozen meringue cookies today. Zero calories become of using Swerve sweetener. Yum yum. Xoxoxox

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