Day 900 Augusta Ga

January 6, 2017Leave a comment

Home of James Brown. Yesterday I had wanted to draw a musician live and thought where the heck will I find one of those?!

Met a friend downtown at New Moon Cafe and as I was leaving guess what happened. A saxophone player started playing OUTSIDE!! Hurrah!!

So I sat out on this cold rainy day with Calvin and drew him. He was thrilled when he saw it. I also gave him a nice tip.

I asked him why he was out in 47 degree weather in the rain playing. He said he had gotten the notion that he needed to play “Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head” downtown today. So he did.

Here’s Calvin before I added the scratchy lines with my noodler Konrad. I think the thin lines really added to the energy of this sketch. He tended to stand still when he played so not much action to draw.

I used my Pentel Brush pen and Noodler Konrad. Tried to use a thick sharpie but it bled thru the heavy pages of the mixed media S&B zeta. So I did not keep using it.

I may paint this. I haven’t decided.

The quote on the top right is a quip from my friend Marsha over our breakfast at New Moon Cafe this am. Yummy but FaTTeNinNG!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Margaret in rainy Georgialina xoxoxox

Day 882 Don’t Break the Painting!

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016Leave a comment

Photo #3 Finally looks like Al our favorite art professor. He makes quips like

Don’t Break the painting to have to fix it …because my students always tell me they will do it later and they never do.

And of course I broke this one. I used gouache partly because Al likes it better than watercolor but also because the sketch was terrible. The face was too fat the eyes were off and at the wrong angle. All the black around it is where I corrected it and colored over the background.

This is a not quite done pic. I take pics with my phone sometimes to see how it’s coming. I also sent it to a couple of friends who critiqued him. Face too fat and not enough top of the head. I only added a fraction of an inch and it really helped it look like him.

The gouache was a lot of fun but I need a bigger tube of white. I am going thru it like potato chips.

A few more Al-isms or painting according to Al.

Nail it by doing prep work. The sketch and underpainting are fright before you start final painting.
Warms and cools make a happy painting-Complimentary Pairs.
Brush strokes – bigger the better. Use house painting brushes and paint it in one pass.
Same intensity of two complimentaries make them pop.
Change blue use thalo sometimes.

Thick paint makes it closer glazes farther away
Texture brush strokes
People are stingy about their paint.
A really great painter pays attention to the corners and edges not just the middle.

Thanks for looking in.

Margaret whose sleepy.

Day 881 - James

December 6, 2016Leave a comment

Ok so another tv drawing. James Taylor was on CBS Morning News yesterday after being honored st the Kennedy Center. Always loved him so naturally I was tempted.

He’s a little long in the face but otherwise I really love him. The eyes are great.

Note to self. Take time to measure!!!

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent wc palette. Drawn with a pentel brush pen in a Beta Stillman and Birn mixed media journal.

This is Teds actual hand held palltette.

These are the actual colors he recommends for the most transparency. I just have to add a couple. Cerulean and a Daniel Smith quin coral. The coral makes great skin tone mixed with quin gold or quin sienna or red orange.

Thanks for checking in. Ttyl. Gotta draw another person but this time my own photo.

Margaret staying in after yoga and another exercise class at the Y today. A nap soon!!

Day 856 – Happy Veterans Day

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016Leave a comment

Once again I posted this yesterday on that OTHER website…sigh…

Somehow saying Happy Veterans Day seems like a conundrum to me because is not happy and people remembering it are sad.

That said I am sharing sketches of War Memorials I did in France last fall in Normandy at the sites of the Allied D Day Invasions 71 years ago.

The Canadian Cemetery at Beny sur Mer. It was odd to me that people to young to know the men buried there were crying over dead relatives.

That said I found myself doing the same thing as I shared a link to my dads historic battle of Foxhill at the Choisin Reservoir in 1950. PBS recently aired a riveting documentary about the week long battle. I had heard bits of the story but to actually see the 32 below conditions they fought in, the rugged almost arctic landscapes, the mass burials of the Marine dead,the frozen Chinese who were shot because the Marines had no other choice in this desperate time was a totally different experience.

The beautiful Canadian Juno Beach Museum shaped like a maple leaf on the beaches of La Manche, the Sleeve as the French call the English Channel. A stunning building wrapped in glowing aluminum with state of the art exhibits.

The Ranville Eglise next to another Canadian Cemetery in Caen Normandy France. The day was getting dark and somber threatening rain that afternoon.

The Pegasus Bridge Museum. Using gliders brave British paratroopers jumped behind Nazi lines BEFORE the Allied invasion forces landed on the Normandy beaches. I am sure many of them are now buried at the nearby Ranville Cemetery. They are immortalized in the movie The Longest Day.
Thanks for stopping by.

Margaret xoxox

Day 839 Progress!

October 25, 2016October 26, 2016Leave a comment

Today at 2:30. Have French class today so I left on time for once…maybe the first time ever.Its cropped a bit to small. BUT I and everyone else that I paint with like it alot.

Instructions from todays critique..DO NOT loose the sketchy lines as I paint AND to organize the chaos of the shadows…whatever that means…I guess it will be revealed!! I HOPE!

Last Wednesday afternoon at the end of painting session. I will be glad when Friday gets here and I am done with my diet journal…I think at least one of my followers will be too!!

The photo that I am working from in downtown Brevard last month.

TTYL

Margaret off to parlez vous français.

Day 775 – It’s Saturday

August 20, 2016June 25, 2019Leave a comment

And we had a busy hour and a half painting a very tired sleepy Emily. Her new puppy has been keeping her up at night. We had lots of advice for her. Mine is always get an adult rescue. Skip those puppy problems- whining pottying chewing shoe eating.
Cropping mine because I didn’t get a chance to finish her lower hand. MOnday I guess or maybe I will gesso over her.

As Drew said today we should do the face the hands and then paint the rest because we run out of time. An hour and a half is not long to paint a 24×30″ painting.

I think that everyone really did a great job today. Must have been those dunkin donuts and chocolate chip cookies we had for snacks.
Thanks for checking bMargaret xxxx

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Day 758 Black Dawg

July 31, 2016August 2, 201618 Comments

Happy Sunday. Busy watching Oprahs Super Soul Sunday so my post will be short.

I have a new big rug in the den and Honey evidently loves it. The lab hair I have vacuumed off of it!

So Honey is losing more hair for me now. A quick sketch in a small Aqua superbee tablet with a Noodler Konrad loaded with Carbon Platinum black ink. The red is a Tombow pen. Tombow are highly fugitive but fun to play with especially when you don’t feel like getting out the watercolors.

Ditto the first one. She looks like a fat black seal. She’s really a flabrador but it’s hard to tell her no. And then there’s a slight case of counter surfing. Bad dog.

The neighbors think her name is Biscuit because I get her to come by calling Biscuit! The dog has a serious love affair with Cracker Barrel Biscuits even when they are days old.

Knitting socks for my 93 year old dad. Malabrigo sock yarn. He’s a blue lover so these should be a hit.

Thanks for reading.

Margaret xxx

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Day 757 Saturday

July 30, 2016August 1, 20163 Comments

Already again.

Always amazes me the variety and quality of the work done in only an hour and a half of painting.

Ilania acrylic

24×30 Really like the way she turned out. Tried to include her hands. Sometimes I think the acrylic is like trying to paint with butter cream. Detail is not easy.

Also love the way her face turned out. I used very few brush strokes but the ones I used worked.

Ruth Pearls Inktense and charcoal. Lovely job. You can follow her at Britpeach on Instagram if she’s public now.

Drew Murphey Acrylic 24×30 Gorgeous job!

Conte Crayon. Awesome Job. I wish I knew his name. He does lovely work. And the circles he adds are an interesting touch.

CA s oil. I teased him he had made her monumental like a thirties WPA painter.

Cathe Dennis a dreamy oil. Her paintings are so soft and ethereal.

Fred Bs out there acrylic. We joked he let out her Bete Noir.

Tom Needhams acrylic. This is an underpainting. He ran out of time before he got a chance to add the flesh tone. It is almost done.

Rachel Millers lovely pencil sketch.

Thanks for reading

Margaret xxx

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Day 756 Dr Sketchys ii

July 29, 2016August 1, 2016Leave a comment

Probably my favorite. Caran d’ache neocolor ii 5 minute sketch

My second fav. Her face was too small to do a good job with the blunt crayons.

Twenty minutes?! At least I got the legs right but maybe I should work on her disappearing hand.

Another Marion the Librarian tombow markers

And this is the ugly. Her eyes are way off. It was late and we left right after this so I am using that as an excuse!!

Thanks for reading.

Margaret xxx

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