Day 2018 Its Saturday

May 6, 2017Leave a comment

And we decided to spend another nite in Boone.

Did I say I bought this Charles Reid painting. Best thing that’s happened to me since I got Beatle tickets with the possible exception of my grandchildrens birth.

Charles Reid wearing his new “happiness and security hat” as Judy Reid called his new hat that she bought for him at the Mast General in Valley Crucis.

Mike Gant and I wearing our Charles Reid happiness and security hat at the Mast General in Valley Crucis.

The original the Mast General in Valley Crucis.

A good looking gentleman was sitting at one of these empty tables ar the Wild Craft Eatery today. I just had to draw him and he almost busted me. He also kept moving his hands so I messed those up.

Here’s a picture of where he was sitting and the sketch.

The sketch. Not the best. Took maybe five minutes. I was so afraid he would catch me. He was sitting less than six feet from me.

And a bit of its Saturday done by

My friend Drew Murphy back in Aiken. 2×3′ acrylic alla prima.

Day 2016 How many flowers

May 4, 2017Leave a comment

Was thinking I would NEVER paint another flower when I did this one yesterday. I guess til you get it right. Painting like crazy!!! This one was wrong … well at least the flowers. Had no clue how to paint yellow flowers.

This is what I was looking at!

So I moved things around and tried again. Charles pronounced this one a great success. Thinking it needs some more splatters and where’s the chickens eye. Great paint brush apple tubes and teapot. I can nail that fruit. Why did I think I wanted to paint that yellow bouquet.

Enough for tonite. Worn out so BED time.

Ttyl Margaret having too much fun in Boone. Xoxox

Day 1011 Some Grafitti aka Extreme Journaling

April 28, 20177 Comments

Well let’s hope I don’t accidentally delete this post this time. ROUND TWO!!

This is the assignment for week five of the Juliana Coles The Book of the Night class. Based on the Persephone Demeter Greek Myth. As usual first we journaled. Then I painted it out.

And I painted collaged and stamped it.

I added some red paint wiping it off and some purple on the spring side.

Added the white lettering with caran dache neocolor ii and scribbled on it some of the neocolors.

I also used my new favorite toy a 6B lead that I bought at Cityart last Thursday for $1.29. They have a storefront and gallery in the Vista.

The lettering on the leaves was done with the lead. I also enhanced the skulls in Hades on the bottom right with the caran dache neocolor iis. They didn’t show enough

Then I added some more red to the wrap on the girl on the left. I was hoping it would add to the flames of hades. Not sure it did But it’s done for now.

Ttyl. packing one more day til I leave for Charles Reid class. Margaret xoxoxox

Day 1010 Bits and Bobs

April 27, 2017Leave a comment

I painted this a while back and never got around to posting him. An older gentleman enjoying his kindle or his iPad in the window of the Inner Bean. I have painted that light several times. It alway eludes me. MAybe tomorrow when I meet Marsha there forBrunch?!

Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.

That light. I coated it with Quin gold first. Then cerulean. Probably the color that got me into trouble. It’s opaque. I think the shadow is Daniel Smith piemonite with ultramarine blue. Love piemonite.

Two days til Boone!!! And Charles Reid. Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo

Day 1102 In the Bag

April 19, 2017April 18, 2017Leave a comment

This is what yesterday’s page should have looked like.

Part one of The assignment was A creepy forest above the horizon. A graveyard and Frankensteins bride.
First up was to take only five minutes to cut out ten animals and people to assemble into Frankensteins bride. The hands are Jacques Pepin. The gravestones and wings are more of the altered citrasolv National Geographic.

Then the forest then a letter then a graveyard and then reconcile it.

Lilly as I call her was a lot of fun. Her head used to be a really cute little toddler I cut from an ad. Not anymore.

I dressed her for her wedding day with Frankie. She’s excited of course. I added some gold gewgaws to her. She still might need a purple plastic purse.

The tombstones are not quite as journalie as they should have been. Milestones in my life. Instead I wrote ancestors names. Seemed a little creepy to do my life’s milestones.

Bottom layer is a letter to a dead person. I chose Abraham Lincoln. We could use his wisdom right now.

Thinking of adding some large letters. Frankie and Lilly were sweethearts!!

Masking tape, black acrylic paint, white gel pen, Prismacolor art sticks, caran dache neocolor ii and Lamy EF.

Ttyl Margaret xoxox off to start her haunted doll house. Lilly needs a home.

This is the list I have brainstormed for my house so far.

Door flaps

Birds behind it.

Victoria or Queen Anne spiral staircase

Tower Jacobean?!

Bridal room for Lilly

Doll house. Whole cover comes off.

Widows walk w telescope

Flag skeleton

Open in middle of page

Gothic throne chair w wigs and a hood

Attic room w bed.

Arched gate

Window wall

Hotel de ville.

Day 1001 One day at a time.

April 18, 2017April 18, 20172 Comments

Another day another post. If I quit now I am back to day one. Onward. One day at a time.

Trying to catch up my Book of the Night journal the online class I am doing with Juliana Coles as teacher.

The assignment from the week I was in Charlotte is very long and involved. Though I took notes in it I did this page wrong. Oops.

It now looks like this.

But I keep trying to figure out how to use the other figures. This option orrrr

This one. The added paper collage is old citrasolv National Geographics I did several years ago. I have quite a stack.

The bottom layer of this page is purple tape painted black. Then journaled on with white gel pen. Never have the news on while journaling. And then a haunted forest added. I had to turn off the news and the first song on was The Night With a Thousand Eyes. Perfect. Then I added the eyes.

Here it is when I started this morning.

Prisma art sticks Caran dache Neocolor ii white paint pen.

Two more pages to finish. Eek. Will post the correctly done page tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Margaret xoxoxo

Day 999 One more day.

April 16, 2017April 16, 2017Leave a comment

Happy Easter everyone. Raisin Carter. The chief instigator of all her friends showing up at Peggis class aka Leader of the Pack. I had fun stamping her name. I think she was a little tired from all the fun we had in Charlotte. We wore her out!!

Julie whose taking Charles Reid’s class in May at Cheap Joes with me. Wish I had taken a photo of her interesting basketball player that she was working on.

The ink sketches. Sometimes you should just leave them ink. I wasn’t using my normal skin tones of Quin coral and Quin gold. I used Quin rose and yellow ochre. So the paintings are a little dark.

They were painted with Quin rose, yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, mineral violet, and pyrrole red. Oh and sepia for a dark brown.

Ink pen Lamy Safari filled with Carbon Platinum Black ink in a strathmore mixed media 500 journal. Love their crispy paper. Just wish they would lie flat like the Stillman and Birns do.

Happy Easter. Margaret hanging out with the grandkids who are on sugar overload xoxox

Day 998 Oh My Two More Days Painting PCM

April 15, 20177 Comments

Spent yesterday hitting the art stores and taking photographs for possible future paintings at Ponce City Market.

It’s a HUGE rehabbed old Sears building on Ponce de Leon near the Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Whoever designed it kept much of the funkiness of the old building keeping the floors and the huge support columns and the ibeams in the floors.

The two panoramas give a 360 degree view of the space which is jammed packed with the smells of the 20 plus upscale chef run restaurants that allow you and your friends many delicious choices of food which you eat in the open areas.

Outside eating area is a huge interesting place called the Shed which is an enormous concrete beam structure surrounded by restaurants ok one side and stores on the other. I think it’s new construction but not sure. I really need to sit down and draw it becAuse it’s wonderful to look at.

The store side of the Shed.

Sunday there is an art market in the shed. Going to check that out tomorrow but since it’s Easter thinking it’s not open.

Keep taking photos of a few places that just appeal to my eye. This Caribbean food place El Super Pan is just delightfully funky with its purple lit metal overhang. Someplace I have an unpainted sketch of this place.

And my favorite golden dragon Chinese restaurant. I have painted this twice. Love that dragon.

This couple sat down inches from me at the same table Aron f one of the columns between me and the object of my attention. The golden dragon column. Yes there were other tables to sit at but no they had to block my view. Irritated with the self involved duo I snapped their photo and immortalized the French Fry couple.

Here’s the sketch I had been doing.

I love going upstairs and taking photos of the first floor over the railing.

That’s how I snapped the photo for this painting called Looking Down which was recently juried into the Anderson Center for the Arts Show which is considered a coup in South Carolina.

One of the appeals of Ponce city Market besides the delicious food are the masses of people and the odd interesting architectural elements like the large yellow and black arrow in the upper right.

I think you could find a life time of paintings on the environs of PCM aka Ponce City Market. Something about this one. The two guys one big one little trudging off across the light from the doors.
Sooner or later I will get a food pic of this bar. Maybe on my big camera not my phone. I have two hundred or so photos there.

A trip to PCM is not complete without drooling over the delicious candy shop

And my personal favorite the St Germain a PArisian themed patisserie loaded with all things Parisian – macaroons, breads, small crispy meringues, real marshmallows and cases of decadent gorgeous goodies.

Trying to resist the lure of PCM today a Sketchers paradise but there are eggs to dye and Easter prep to be done.

Ttyl

Margaret loving Atlanta even when it took me an hour and 15 min to drive 4 miles from Trader Joe’s to the house. Xoxoxo

Day 994 – Peggy Habet’s class

April 11, 2017April 12, 2017Leave a comment

I drew Peggy several times during class. This was the last time and looks the most like her. Fourth time the charm. She was hard to draw with a long thin nose and a tiny face.

The nose kept overpowering her tiny face when I drew her. This was the first try. And then I painted her too dark so I scrubbed her a little to lighten her up. I did have fun stamping her name and embellishing the page with a watercolor pencil.

Go round three. Nose still too big. Eeekkk. The hair is a combo of thalo and sepia.

Number four. TOO Dark!!!’ What the heck.

Better. But the face was too wide and not oval enough. I could make it narrower by adding hair.

I painted on my class sketches most of the day. Guess it’s time to do those color studies.

Margaret xoxoxo whose having a painting day.

Day 993 How many more days till 1000?!!!

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017Leave a comment

SeVeN. HURRAH!!

I might cut back to three four times a week. What do you think I should do?!

Worked on this page this morning.

This is what it looked like this am.

What the whole three page spread looks line now.

I colored the hand green with a Prismacolor art stick. The scar letter on the right was done in a page ripped from an old Bartletts quotations.

I flipped this huge thick book open randomly to Lewis Carrol which I thought quite odd since I had a couple of quotes from Alice on the middle page. Decided to save it , read it and maybe cut up the poems on it later.

Flipped the book again without looking. Louisa May Alcott was on that page. I have read every book she wrote at least once and read Little Women multiple times. It’s also the only book I own multiple copies of.

I scribbled the letter with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum black. I ripped the letter by laying my hand on it to give it a hand shape but leave the X-ray part and glued it down.

The milagro heart was also a piece of the same Louisa May Alcott page. The shreds of the ripped up letter cut out like a heart and glued and colored. After all sometimes our hearts need a miracle.