Author: Margaret Hunt

Born in Oceanside, California, Margaret studied fine arts at the University of Georgia and Augusta State University where she was a protege of Freeman Schoolcraft and studied under Jim Lyle, Eugenia Comer and Dave Jones. In addition she has studied with Ken Umbach at John Campbell Folkschool and locally with Jim Ginsheer and Thomas Needham. An award winning artist, her work is represented in collections throughout Europe and the United States. Galleries and museums across the United States have represented and shown her work. Her creations have received numerous awards including multiple Best of Shows, have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally and are part of art collections across the world most notably including the Quilts, Inc. collection and the Thomas Quilt Collection. Her art has been published in numerous art magazines and has also been included in several books such as Creative Quilting: A Page from My Journal. Highlights are her art quilts were selected Favorites at International Quilt Show, Houston. Art critics have compared her art to Thomas Gainsborough paintings. More Recently she has taken classes with the great Charles Reid, Fealing Lyn and Ted Nuttall. Margaret creates art of one kind or another almost every day at her studio on the Savannah River and teaches at various venues across the country.

Day 1670 Squirrel attack

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018Leave a comment

Have mixed emotions about my back porch squirrels. They gobble up the bird seed. I would rather the birds did. So what are they the one one right or the DEMON SqUiRReL!!!

Demon squirrel lives in your attic and eats the woodwork the pots the plants the rubber tubing to the gas grill over and over again.

Everyday squirrel performs acrobatics for our entertainment. So silly. Little sleek things always lounging or running around the porch.

Lamy Ef stillman and birn noodlers Eelskin ink Caran dache neocolor ii prismacolor artstixs and Fabre castle watercolor pencils. Aka MIXeD MeDiA!!!

Empanada time. Shower first. Deliciousness. I think the chicken ones win by a nose.

Lunch. Didn’t know what half the food was. But delicious

I thought the spinach would be my fav but NOPE!!

Margaret xoxoxox

Day 1669 A bit more from Savannah.

July 13, 2018Leave a comment

A Scad prof Daniel Powers and

another of Laurence from Paris.

Baked a jillion empanadas-chicken or spinach- so delicious- for tomorrow so worn out. Who knew they were so tasty.

Stillman and Birn Lamy EF w Noodler Eelskin ink.

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Day 1668 Charles Paints John

July 11, 2018Leave a comment

What else can I say?! Have an extreme sinus head ache. Hoping it improves soon.

Cerulean olive green alizarin ultramarine blue cobalt teal flesh cad red light and yellow ochre greys cerulean and burnt umber.

Pen Lamy EF w noodle Eelskin ink.

Hugs Margaret xoxoxox maybe a nap will cure the headache?!!

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Day 1667 Coloring Book time

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018Leave a comment

Have a lot of sketches in my stillman and birn not colored. Maybe I will color in my coloring book today?!

Ps colored with Caran d’ache neocolor ii crayons inktense pencil and artstixs

We shall see. Hugs! Margaret feeling lazy today.

Day 1466 Key West Food Tour

July 10, 20182 Comments

Our hostess was AnnaLise a Key West local who owns and runs the Key West Food tour.

AnnaLise gives a great tour loaded with history and anecdotes about all things Key West.

These are all the places we walked to on our tour. We walked a lot. NOT for the faint hearted.

One of my favorite places she took us too was the funky Blue Heaven. I can’t resist their Key Eat pink shrimp eggs Benedict. So delicious.

And on the weekends and evenings there’s a band and chickens. How can it be a bad spot to sit a while?!

A few other great things to do on Key West are Lloyd’s Bike Tour also jammed with facts and folklore. The Ghost HUNT tour is also fun and interesting not for those who are afraid of things that go bump in the night. Eeekkk!! The Shark Tour we won was also fun and interesting.

Margaret still worn out from her travels. Xoxoxoxo

Day 1465 or so. Waterlogue

July 8, 20186 Comments

Is a free fun ap for iPhones.

Bertie in Bold

In Travelogue.

the bear in vividbold

Luminoustravelogue

illustration soaked

It turns photos into various watercolors effects with a couple of clicks. There are several settings.

Photos from Ponce City Market

You can choose the style painting you like best. The auberge in Aivers where Van Gogh died. The fountain in Place de la Concorde Paris sacre Couer Montmartre Paris The steps in Montmartre sakes steps different treatment. Rouen Cathedral painted by Monet 28 times. One of my fav Waterlogue photos.palace of Justice Rouen France Rouen France half timber buildings.

You can see it can give some great effects.

Sorry I don’t know if it’s available for other phones.

Margaret back from the lovely cool mountains where it was 66 this am. Nap time. Xoxoxoxox

Day 1465 It’s Friday

July 6, 2018July 18, 2018Leave a comment

Time to head on out to a restaurant to eat I think.

We ate at the Pirates house and had our own little room finally all to ourselves. No ghosts seen though. It’s one of the oldest houses in Savannah and supposedly haunted by it it Bluebeard?!

We also ate at Vic’s. Deliciousness in the form of tiny home made biscuits shrimp and grits and a fabulous desert.

Tracy of Art in the mountains loved this sketch. The more I look at it I do too. I know better than to draw the background before people sit at the tables but sometimes I just can’t wait. And if I ruined the sketch why not draw people on it as they arrived. Can’t hurt it can it?!

I was trying out a technique used by Ronald Searles in his Paris Paris book where he draws right over whatever is behind it when he does street and restaurant scenes. I actually used a sepia pen and a black ink pen. Kind of fun but can’t decide how in the world to paint it.

Margaret getting ready to pack it in and head to Atlanta for Henry’s sixth birthday. How is that possible?!! Xoxoxox

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Day 1464 Odd seems

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018Leave a comment

…Like it should be day 1465 since it’s the fifth. Hope your fourth was wonderful. We are probably off riding around Glenville Lake and fishing.

Charles drawing John.

Another sketch of Laurence. She was great fun to draw. There may be one more sketch of her somewhere. Evidently I didn’t take a picture of the sketch. Oops.

The sketch.

Painted with my Charles Reid /Holbein Metal palette. In my stillman and birn beta I think drawn with a Lamy EF with Noodlers Eelskin ink.

Our new trash man who came for a visit last nite.

Margaret playing with her grandkids in the WNC mountains. XOXOXO

Day 1463 – John!!

July 4, 2018July 1, 20182 Comments

Hope you are having a WoNdErFuL FoUrTh!! I know we are at the annual Fourth of July celebration on the Green in Cashiers NC

John one of our models in Savannah in my sketchbook. His hat is really a bit too high on his head. Oops.

Sketch 2 of John but more importantly his adorable Jack Russell Jedi. What a great dog!! And the hat drawing went much better.

Sketch for 1.

The sketch 2 with notes on how

To paint it.

Painted with my Charles Reid /Holbein Metal palette. In my stillman and birn beta I think.

Margaret playing with her grandkids in the WNC mountains. XOXOXO

Day 1462 Megan from Savannah

July 3, 2018July 1, 2018Leave a comment

A very sweet lady. She paid for our models John and Carver to stay at one of the local Holiday Inns for over a week. How nice was that?! Otherwise they would have crashed wherever they could.