Pleased to announce that some of my urban sketches and some of my mixed media sketches will be for sale at Wolf and Finch on 859 Broad Street during Arts in the Hearts.
Ttyl more paintings to get ready. Stay tuned!! Xoxoxo margaret
Category: Art
Day 1128 Cheap Joes Hurricane Harvey Relief Program
100% of your donation thru Joes goes to Hurricane Harvey relief plus Joe will kick in a percentage of sales and you don’t have to buy a thing.
Joe dressed as Theo Van Gogh giving us his Van Gogh presentation A real treat if you get a chance to see it.
Boone NC
I was not aware of the fact that Joe Miller founder of Cheap Joes takes charity work so seriously til John Salimen shared with me that after every Hurricane like Katrina and Sandy Joe goes thru their customer database and sends gift certificates to any customer that lived in the disaster area.
Joe recently got a Humitarian award from the American Watercolor Society because of his charity work. He employees mentally handicapped people and then brags on them when you tour the warehouse. It makes them glow with pride. Just a lovely man.
Which is the reason I ALWAYS recommend Cheap Joe’s when people ask where to buy their art supplies.
Soooo
Here’s how you do it!!!
Think I will get some of that fabriano hot press I have been wanting while I am at it.
And while you are there treat yourself to a Cheap Joes class. You will get treated like a Prince or Princess and have a lovely time.
Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo
Day 1118 – that iconic view
Wish we had some views like this in Augusta. Sigh.
Every time I go to Trader Joe’s on Monroe I always stare at it for a few minutes.
It’s looking over the Grady High football field toward Piedmont Park.
Those tall buildings never fail to fascinate.
Lamy Safari Noodlers Eelskin Black Stillman and Birn Alpha. Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean
Hugs Margaret whose missing the moms who used to run Inner Bean. Xoxox
Day 1115 -It’s Saturday
Emily 90 minutes watercolor pastel and 6B lead on strathmore Bristol.
A little thin thru the shoulders and body. And HOW did I forget to paint her other leg. An easy fix.
The sketch. About 30 minutes.
First break with a wash of raw sienna and Quin rose.
Second break? 80 minutes. Used a huge 16 Legends Sable. And a Golden Fleece Cheap Joes 2″ flat.
Added sepia Quin sienna Quin gold aureolin cobalt violet and dioxazine violet
Added white pastel stick for highlights.
Al Beyer oil 3×4′
Katie’s pencil and pastel. Love the flesh tones.
Jeremy. Red conte crayon?
Coach. Always does nice charcoal sketches.
Tom Needham’s small watercolor 10×14
AC Daniels small not quite done. Second break.
Fred the dentist having fun.
Margaret xoxoxox who better paint that leg.
Day 1114 one more Starbucks.
These two guys were just chatting away in Chinese or Korean. Could have been Japanese for all I know. Their conversation was very animated. The guy on the right actually noticed I was drawing. He was really sweet and asked me if I had finished before he left.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus Daniel smiths piemonite.
Margaret who had a busy day xoxoxo
Day 1113 – Urban sketching at StarbucksÂ
Really pleased with the way this one turns out. Don’t know why I didn’t post it sooner. I had a lot of trouble with pens. Four in my purse and NO ink in any of them. How is that possible. Met some friends at the new Starbucks on Bobby Jones. Really nice BIG Starbucks. I drew the people in front of me. Some walked off some walked in.
The cars were a lot of fun to draw. Next time I am drawing my Prius in the painting lol. Artist car 🚗 self portrait.
Even like the way the crepe Myrtle turned out. I painted the whole thing wet in wet letting the colors melt into each other.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Ttyl !Margaret xoxoxox
Day 1110 Henry
Snacking on goldfish when we went to Oakhurst park. This was a very quick sketch. Have you ever treed drawing a five year old who never stops?! But Henry loved the idea of me drawing him. He tried to hold still. That lasted about a second.
Stillman and Birn Alpha w Lamy Safari and Ted Nuttalls transparent palette
Tty Margaret xoxoxo
Day 1103 Its Saturday
Katie Well this was not great. I forgot my watercolor brushes and didn't have a canvas so I played with my neocolor ii for first forty minute session.
All my sketches are on 16×20 Strathmore
Bristol.
I moved for the next forty minutes. Used my 6B chunk of lead and a bit of the 9b chunk of lead. Hmm wonder if you can get lead poisoning from it?
Third session drawing. My favorite although I think I made Katie look too old.
Drew Murphys. Acrylic 24×30" My favorite of the rest.
Jeremy's lovely sketch.
A lovely pastel by someone named Al or Alex maybe.
Also really liked this one by Marilyn Hartley. Oil
Al Beyer's HUGE oil.
Dawns oil 24×30"
Dr Fred's. Such a happy acrylic.
And the lovely Ilaina in her Matisse phase. Oil!
That's it. Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo
Day 1103 Blind contours
Our three old Jack Russells – Charlie the best jack russell ever til Zoe, Jazz Manic feature and Susie super mom.
A few more oldies from The box. 
Charlie
Blind contours. Something I haven't done for a while. You are suppose to keep your pen always on the page while looking only at whatever you are drawing.
Of course I had to color some of them. Jazz had big funny feet even though she was a tiny dog.
The jack Russell state. As in when are u going to play ball with me?
jazz 
Jazz
Jazz
all of these are blind contours of Jazz. 
They are just delightfully wonky sketches done in a minute or two.
Hmm well she did have very short legs and a really long body. Maybe she was a daschund disguised as a jack ,,.
Ttyl tomorrow's Saturday. You know what that means.
Hugs Margaret xoxoxo
Day 1102 Cleaning out
Getting ready to move shelves so a room can be painted I am going thru a box of old papers photographs for painting and sketches. Sometimes I will sit down with a pile of paper and just draw whatever I see. Less commitment with typing paper.
Bones was a sweet long haired stray cat that someone dumped in our neighborhood. Thin as a rail when I started feeding her and of course pretty soon she was in the house. Oops. 
Eventually she went to live with my son in Atlanta.
Jamming herself into bookcases seems to have been her thing. Cats do the funniest things.
I should pitch these but have a feeling they are going back in the box with the photographs.
Sketched with a black Pitt pen. Love Pitt pens. They are hard to kill. Tips hold up to my hard treatment of them. The ink is India ink so it's permanent. And they just don't seem to dry up for years. I know I have some ten years old. A record I am sure for a felt tip pen. Only sharpies seem to last as long.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox
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