Finally a colored sketch!! Caran dache neocolor ii I’m super aquabee paper. Twenty minute sketch.

Here’s the pencil sketch.

I took another picture of the bride. Think she just pales in comparison. It was a ten minute sketch I think.

And I gave the umbrella sketch away without so much as a picture. Darn.

Best fun at Sketchys in a while.

Time to eat the quiche I made. Yum yum. Fresh steamed broccoli too.

Ttyl Margaret having a lazy Sunday xoxoxox maybe I should draw the quiche!? Pepper The almost bride Dr Sketchys at Chat Noir! More at https://margaretmccarthyhunt.com #drsketchys #augusta #pentelpen #watercolor #ink #chatnoir #burlesque #inkdrawing #art #sketching #lifemodel #nude #charlesreid #allaprima #dailydrawing

And were we happy to be there??! YES! We thought we would not be drawing again together ever again. But Fred offfered is a large empty room at his office and we all crammed in. Lucky we are fond of each other isn’t it?!! And we upgraded to a kitchen. 🤗👍🏻16×20 Ilania. I quit at first break because I was afraid I would mess it up. The light was not great. As Tom said all I could see was the tones not the colors.

Number 2 Caran d’arches Neocolor ii second break. Also 16×20″

Do not like the heavy dark lines on this one. I probably can lighten them up but not sure I want to bother. Just turn it over and draw on the other side.

Jeremy Sutherland’s large gorgeous head sketch. Incredible skills. Go buy it from him!!

Thomas Needham‘s lovely watercolor. Also soon to be die sale on his website.

Fred did a zany painting despite sciatica problems and hosting us.

Amy Lockhard-Ness’s lovely oil. About 18″ square.

A couple of the kids sketches. Sorry there weren’t more photos. So crowded it was hard to get a pic of anything.

So many people showed up Al didn’t have space to draw even though drew left early.

Hugs Margaret contemplating how to fix the second sketch and trying to resist a handful of chocolate chips left over from yesterday’s cookie baking for this morning. They gobbled them down.

Xoxoxox

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The thing about Sketchys is you never know what the model will dream up doing. Pepper told us a brides sad tale. A flash back from the trailer trash reality?! I dunno.

The bride. Ten minutes. Still haven’t brought the book upstairs for a better pic. All those rollers in her hair during her trailer trash phase made her hair lovely and curly.

The bride gets some news. I actually painted the background color first and then drew over it. An experiment.

The bride weeps. It’s OvER!! He’s dumped her.

Stuffing her feelings. She had wads of chocolate cake in her mouth and left hand.

Contest change her to make her funny. I think that was the contest. I changed the cake to a Big Mac and painted her hair orange. Wonder who she is?!!

Recovery this one actually got colored. Must never have taken a photo of it.

Pepper and her new best friend the otter because “He’s Otterly ridiculous”. Pepper is nuts about otters.

And oops I forgot to take a picture of the last one. I painted a great umbrella. Hmmm oh well. Sorry. How many sketches was that in two and a half hours??!

11 or so. No wonder we are Tahred when we leave.

Hugs. Back to the British baking show. Xoxoxox Margaret

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Obviously not done. I took my time on drawing his face and there was soooo much to paint. Skin is cad red and cad yellow pale though I think I should have used yellow ochre instead. I did on his hands and liked it better there. Cerulean burnt sienna shadows.

So this is NOT done. The plaid took forever and ever to paint. It was as if everything about painting Gord was complicated. Plaid is alizarin and cad red light ultramarine and cobalt with raw umber and cerulean shadows. Same for the vest.

Gord works as an extra on movies filming in the Atlanta area as well as a model. Evidently he’s posed several times at the Portrait Association of America when it meets in Atlanta.

This is actually not the final drawing. I redrew his eyes lower down. I think I moved his eyebrows down too.

Still lots to do like a background and hmmm. What to do about those jeans?! Wipe them off and just make a vest orrrr. Sigh. Sooner or later I will think of what to do. Right now long naps on the sofa before Dr Sketchys tonite.

Been staring at this between naps. Really like it a lot.

Ps book club was fun. Leftovers for lunch today. Yum yum. Go read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society. A great book!

Hugs Margaret xoxoxox

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Down except for some erasing and maybe a background. Much to my delight Matthew was our model today. He’s caramelmuse84 on instagram in case you want to follow this gorgeous guy!! The pose as a boxer was great fun. I was drawing well I think. I didn’t measure til almost the end.

Forty minutes. We had a series of gesture poses and two 15 minute poses that I think went well too.

Loved his boots too. Since this was outed almost vertically I got lots of runs drips and juicy color blending.

Sketched with a 2B Derwent sketch pencil on Fluid 140 # cold press.

Colors used – skin tones quin gold burnt sienna raw umber Burnt umber ultramarine and touches of cerulean. Cad red light and cobalt violet on lips.

Alizarin and ultramarine towel.

Blacks – ultramarine and burnt umber or raw umber

Chair – cerulean cobalt and burnt sienna.

Margaret putting up her feet. Xoxoxo naptime?!!

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A memory page from my trip to the High Museum of Art to see the original Shepherd sketches and ink drawings for the Pooh books. My brothers and I grew up reading the adventures of Christopher Robin and Pooh.

I decided to incorporate the leaves feathers and magnolia seed pods into journal pages for the Pooh sketch I did at the museum. The museum provided paper so and a child sized table to sit down and write or draw a letter to Pooh and friends they wanted and stick it in a mailbox. Oddly enough it was only adults filling out the letter on Friday.

I just love the endpaper from the books. I remember pouring over the map when I was a first or second grader finding each place the animals lived.

what a treasure that the Victoria and Albert Museumhas shared with us. Hop in your carsload up the kidsand head to the High It only lasts one more week thruLabor Day Weekend. to look at these jewels. Who doesn’t love a silky Pooh stuck in rabbits doorway. and what glorious sketches. Such expression in Shepherds line. So much character in his lines.

Margaret xoxoxox who now has a high membership. Wonder if I have time to go again since it’s free. Maybe tomorrow?! Xoxoxo

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Well not really. These were done in Chattanooga on Thursday nite at the Townsend Atelier downtown.

However I am glad to report that Saturday drawing is starting back up on Sept 1 at a new location

Both of my paintings are done on 15×22″ cp fluid paper.

Thursday Ruth and I decided that it was better to make an interesting painting than an accurate one. With that in mind I used a large brush and tried to let the colors blend on the paper instead of fussing with them. Aka I let them do the blending.

Too short. The foreshortened left arm and hand was giving me trouble as usual. I kept telling myself the hand was bigger than you think. and I kept measuring across her too narrow shoulders. finally the left arm is long enough!!

The model never repositioned her right hand in the same position between breaks. I kept having to start from scratch on it after each break. 😱🤪

Trying to be more immediate in my paint application.

Colors used cad red light cad yellow light for skin tones.

Shadows cerulean dioxzine purple cobalt violet and raw umber. A daub of red ended up serendipitously on my paintbrush when I picked up the ultramarine blue for the drapes and promptly ended up on my painting. I liked it so I left it. I added raw umber for even more darks just laying it on and leaving it.

Number 2. I moved one spot to my right from the first painting.

My friend Ruth set a limited palette for me. I was only allowed to use four colors: winsor yellow deep, cerulean and carmine plus I got to choose a dark. I used raw umber paintI

Terrible sketch but I decided to correct it with paint since time was limited. I drew it with a chunk of 6B lead.

I decided to paint only using my 16 Cheap Joes legend sable. It’s a huge brush.

First a yellow was painted over all but the whites. I used the carmine as a dark plus the raw umber adding them in the shadows while yellow was still wet plus some cerulean.

The cerulean didn’t play well with the yellow making a barf green.

You can see the cerulean on her right arm. So I used cerulean for the drapery with the raw umber. Then I went back over her with a charcoal pencil. I let the drips rub where they wanted since I didn’t have a lot of time. I can always lift them later with a mr clean eraser.

Margaret who has internet again. Off to explore as soon as west side story is over. Xoxoxo #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #tennesse #chattanooga #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #travel #travelblogger #holbein #drawing #sketching #lifemodel

Wednesday we went down on the Tennessee River front urban sketching. Lots of things to sketch around there. The area could fill a sketchbook. Ruth was drawing what I call the podpeople and I finished my bakery sketch before she was down so I pulled out my elegant writer pen and drew the podpeople.

Actually these weird things are called Birdzels. Standing about five feet tall they march across the lawn. Very freaky I think. The sculptor Mark Chatterly is evidently fairly famous. He will sell you one of these for $4500 but we really thought three or more would be better. Take a few home!! 🤣👍🏻

Back to the elegant writer. Fun pen. You draw with it. Then paint over it with water and it releases color but then dries permanent. All that watery color in this sketch is from wetting the pen lines. As I said fun.

Also drew the Chattanooga Choo Choo billboard this morning from the parking lot of Niedlands Bakery. The Choo Choo sign is the little grey bump in the sky above my sketch. Might have been a perfect opportunity to use my elegant writer but I didn’t think about it.

Back to Niedlands Bakery I bought the most amazing ham and cheese croissant. I was going to eat it tomorrow for breakfast. I didn’t make it ten miles before it was gone. Amazing. Why didn’t I buy two or three.

Sigh too far to go back to Chattanooga for some more.

Margaret now in Atlanta without internet or tv til tomorrow when the repair guy shows. Pray for me. 😱😂

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