Friday Time for the really BIG Show!

March 3, 20172 Comments

The show is hung and it looks awesome.Can’t wait for you all to see it. Join us tonite at the 600 Building on Broad Street in Augusta 6-8 pm. The reception is today but the show will be up all month and the gallery will be open from 10-4.

Where else will you see TWO stories of art in Augusta?!

The building was designed by IM Pei and is very retro late 70s.

The old Chamber of Commerce building is now the Greater Augusta Arts Council Gallery.

See ya tomorrow nite. Oh did I say we have wine too!! 🤗👍🏻

Time to Get ready! Xoxoxo

Day 945 Fat Mans!

February 20, 2017February 23, 2017Leave a comment

A long time Augusta institution. At Christmas everybody went to Fat Mans Forest to oh and ah over the animated Christmas decorations or to find the perfect tree or ornament or ride the Christmas train. Or do all of the above everybody on town went. But the owner Mr Usry died. The kids wanted to sell the land and move it which never happened. Thus Fatmans Forest passed into history. Fat Mans was also the go to place for Halloween decorations and a house of horrors.

However the younger Usrys Fat Mans Cafe is still going strong turning out “soul good” food at their Enterprise Mill location. Excellent squash casserole. Vintage Oolie on Broad bought out the costume part of the business.

I could not resist drawing their catering trucks as the gleamed in the noon day sun after our luncheon Thursday.

Painted in an S&B alpha with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. Drawn w a Lamy EF pen with Lexington gray ink.
Ttyl! Time to Parker vous Francais!

Margaret xoxoxo

#fatmans #EnterpriseMill

Day 944 Enterprise Mill

February 19, 2017February 23, 20173 Comments

This sketch took the longest of all the sketches I did Thursday. Large double spread in my Stillman and birn alpha. Drawn with my Lamy ef.

The building is vermilion or scarlet lake mixed with a bit of burnt umber or Piemonte. I also used Piemonte w ultramarine for shadows and windows. Makes a nice purpley blue dark.

I drew the last old house on Upper Broad Street yesterday. It’s a sad mess. Probably a tear down because nobody wants to live in the middle of a used weedy car lot.

Windows open rotted away and boarded up. But you can buy a Prius from the front porch! It must have been quite a house in its younger days 100 years ago. I wonder who lived there.

These two houses sit to the right across the weedy car lot from the lone house .

Ted Nuttall’s transparent colors. #2 Richeson squirrel mop brush.

Ttyl

Margaret who refuses to catch a cold but has a stuffed up head xoxoxo

#fatmans #EnterpriseMill

Day 943 It’s Saturday!!

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017Leave a comment

Our model didn’t turn up today sadly so Al sat for us. This was done in about forty minutes. The session actually went on longer because no one thought to call time. al sat for over an hour. Oops. Sorry Al!

Tho.s was my view of Al.

Fred posed next. About forty minutes.

I made him too old. Told Fred that this was his Dorian Grey. Dorian Grey is a book written by Oscar Wilde and later a movie. Grey led a debauched life but never aged. Only his portrait did. Hence Fred’s Dorian Grey.

Jeremy’s awesome Fred.

Kathe’s gorgeous Al.

Drew Murphys Al. Large acrylic.

Drews Fred. Looks so much like him. Drew trying to finish before break. Love the hand.

AC Daniels beautiful oil of Al.
Fred’s wild eyed Al.

Thomas Needham’s youthful Al.
Toms Fred.

And that’s it folks. Time for Wet Paint party. Sketching fun.

Ttyl xoxoxo

Day 942 Sacred Heart

February 16, 2017Leave a comment

I never get tired of trying to draw it and paint it. My fav building in Augusta. I think I got it this time.

It’s an old deconsecrated Catholic Church downtown on Greene Street. I used to take Spanish from the nuns in the school to the read of the church as a third and fourth grader. My mom thought it was how we needed to spend our Saturdays. Asks me if I speak Spanish. Nope!!

Colors used. Piemonite, cerulean, ultramarine blue, Quin burnt orange, burnt umber, Quin gold, vermilion, green appetite, sap green.

Drawn w my Lamy EF in a stillman and Birn Alpha. Paper will dry flat but it’s a little wavy now.

More to paint.

Xoxoxo

Margaret

Day 938 Sometimes it doesn’t turn out like u expected

February 12, 2017Leave a comment

so it’s good to have a fall back.

I have darkened this one down quite a bit. Trying to get the lights to glow. Still not there. Better than it was.

Here it was earlier. I drew this last week in downtown. It’s where AC and I ate late lunch.

Remember this?! Like this one better. Maybe I need to write all over it. Lol. Still have one more sketch from or Sunday unpainted.

Off to our first meetup of urbansketchers of Augusta. Hope to see you at the Earthfare meeting room at 1.

Ttyl

Margaret xoxoxo whose having a way too busy weekend.

Day 926 – Ponce City Market-Day 3

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017Leave a comment

Working little is Looking Down

This is day three working on this huge acrylic. Well huge for a very short person. Lol. It’s 3’x4′.

Sorry the picture is not better.

Bytw the photo I am using to paint from was taken from the second floor of Ponce City Market looking down on the restaurant tables below. The ceilings are very high so it’s like it was take from the third story.

The day I took photos the man on the right was everywhere. Always in the background cleaning. Always working silently in the background.

This is what it looked like yesterday when I worked on it. Still a lot to do. I don’t have the picture of the sketch because I started painting it as I was sketching it.

The sketch lines were becoming jumbled and confused so I started blocking in the colors so I could see what I was drawing. What was right and what was wrong.

Colors used. The undercoating is Nickel Azo gold. Other colors pyrrole red, Winsor purple, thalo blue, black, burnt umber, titanium white. Also

Using up lots of tail ends of tubes before they dry out like yellow ochre.

Ttyl gym time.

Margaret tearing herself away from the tv. Xoxoxox

#poncecitymarket

Day 925 the rest of the pile

January 30, 2017Leave a comment

Notice how this painting started as a gesture sketch after I measured.

So did this one. In Two minutes gesture is about all you can do.

Day 917 Urban Sketching the Woman’s March

January 22, 2017Leave a comment

Despite the deluges yesterday a large crowd turned out. It was a rainbow kind of crowd – old and young, men and women, LGBT and even a few dogs.

I drew these yesterday on a very wet day in downtown Augusta. The March and the speeches were at historic Springfield Park where Morehouse College started at Springfield Baptist across the street.

The flame like sculpture on the rampart is all a part of the park. I did paint these at home. I didn’t think watercolor would work too well in deluge weather. Besides there was nowhere to put anything down because it POURED all morning too.

A second even faster sketch of the happy crowd of raincoats and galoshes. I think the correct number of marches was actually 671 but the speakers said 370 and 20 countries.

The sketches were done in my Stillman and Birn Zeta mixed Media with my very patriotic Red Noodler Konrad. I added the flags and the signs to give more interest to the sketches.

Notice the big raindrop blotches on the ink?! Oops. Bravely I kept on sketching standing on top of a bench for a better view.

Here’s the first sketch and a picture of the crowd and park. The local news reported 600 people were there. I think there were closer to 1000. Guess it’s impossible to count.

Somebody asked me how I drew these. The only thing I can say is start at the front and fill in the crowd moving back or you won’t have room for the people in the foreground.

You can not draw a counter in a restaurant and then add people. You have to do it people first then the counter or pencil in the counter which I rarely do. Sometimes it gets me into trouble when I forget the order :

People first background last!

Happy sketching.

Margaret madly painting black edges on canvases for her show at 4p in February. Xoxoxo and yes it’s still raining.

Day 737 A parakeet

July 8, 20162 Comments

And a parrot
Rosy ring necked parakeet

Parrot that needs more work I think.

Hmm well you shouldn’t paint at midnite. What else can I say!? He should be more of an emerald green but that’s easy to fix.just another coat of darker green.