Been working on her.
Small changes. More darks around her face changing the eyes. Everything is slightly off.
Shadow under lip. Think the left eye is still to high. Sigh.
Here she is now. Better but… I also took about an inch or so off her right shoulder. Still too wide but better.
Margaret back to being enthralled with the corona virus news. 😳😳😳 Hang on tight and don’t go taking a plane trip. Xoxoxo
The easy way. The bar behind her was lifted by tapping it off and lifting with a swipe of a Mr Clean. The blue grey background was perfect for leaving a steel colored bar.
Oh and I added a bit of ultramarine and burnt umber along the bottom edge of her foreword leg.
Tossing her in the done pile.
Before
Margaret wondering how fast the wind is blowing on this cold blustery day.
Edited with Waterlogue
Our model was late so Joya nimbly volunteered to model for our gesture sketch session. 
The one minute poses. We tried to get her to pole dance but she said NOPE!!
More 1 min poses. She really did some interesting poses.
Three minute poses. We all loved drawing someone with clothes on. Especially the folds and wrinkles in them.
Five minute. I gave my sheaf of drawings to our model Joya. She quipped if I had known you were going to do that I would have given you( aka me) real paper(aka not newsprint).
Charcoal pencil.
Another one dumped into Waterlogue. Such athleticism!! The best she could do in the pole dancing category. 🤗
Margaret giggling at Young Sheldon. Xoxoxo
will keep us from gathering at USC Aiken to paint. The weather predicted today was terrible (tornadoes and torrential rain) but we soldiered on.
First break. An all over wash of quin gold some burnt sienna alizarin a touch of mineral violet.
Coming along more of the same colors.
When I left Aiken
Now. I keep losing the edge across her arm and thigh where the drippy background meets the body but really liking the background. I can lift the burnt umber off the skin.
I also lifted her shoulder about 1/2″ to make her body more in proportion with her head which is a touch too big.
Added some more darks to her face especially around the eyes and the chin.
Really like the background which is a combo of all the colors used plus cobalt. Nice swirly look made mostly by splattering wet on wet.
Will post her again after I lift the spillover on her body. Have to let it dry first.
Highlights mostly lifted out now.
My favorite bit. Andrews turquoise and yellow ochre stripes. Or was it burnt sienna
Margaret watching the Super Tuesday returns. Xoxoxo
After my Saturday disaster I really didn’t want to make the drive to Aiken but I got a nice painting so am glad I did.
First break. Funny how washed out she looks.
So how did I paint her?? The big question I got yesterday.
Most of the painting was done with a two inch flat black velvet. Finishing with my 10 Charles Reid da Vinci.
First up a wash of quin gold all over her. It just gives a nice glow to African Americans.
Then I judiciously started adding burnt sienna and burnt umber for shadows. A swish of cad orange on highlights on her back. Piling on Andrews turquoise as well as a small dab of ultramarine toward the end for shadows and cad red light on the highlights – ears, the tip of the nose and on the elbow.
The hair is burnt umber and ultramarine. Not sure why I left the divot on top of her head but will fix that sooner or later.
The cloth she is sitting on is burnt sienna and cad red light.
Margaret relieved she can still draw after Saturday.
Gypsy got in the Transparent Watercolor Show which is a National Show in Kenosha Wisconsin in June. Who cares if she wins?? Feel like I won the lottery with her just getting into the show. So excited got zero sleep last night.
The show is ranked with The American Watercolor Show and the National Watercolor Show.
The difference in the shows in TWS your painting has to be all transparent watercolor. Lots of things disqualify it. Too much pencil. Gouache. Not lifting all the masking fluid. All these things don’t disqualify you from the other two shows.
If the judges Kathleen Conover and Herman Pikel decide I get one of those nice juicy checks I will be heading to Wisconsin don’t you know. Lol.
I actually had to look on the map last nite to see where Kenosha was. Due north of Chicago. Should be lovely in June. We shall see.
Margaret whose in charge of book club tonite. Eeekk Xoxoxox
Aslyn So far. 15×22″ cold press Fluid
Needs a background which will set off the face and right shoulder. Maybe a dark blue?!
Annoyed I didn’t draw her 1/2″ to the right so I could have gotten her whole right foot in.
The drawing at forty minutes.
Second break.
An hour and a half of painting.
Colors used. Quin gold raw sienna cad red light burnt sienna Andrews turquoise. Alizarin burnt sienna and mineral violet for shadows. Hair burnt umber and ultramarine
Charcoal Coach Larry
Al Beyer oil. Funny story. I thought he was painting a skeleton at first glance. All the stripes in the blanket. Duh.
Acrylic Drew Murphy
Fredlianis mondrian. 🤗
Eve!😳🤗
Bill oil on metal panel
Margaret whose going to stare at Ashlyn a while til she tells me how to finish her. Aka tired from a very busy 24 hours. Xoxoxo
Or perhaps nearing completion. Having fun doing these tiny journal pages which incidentally seem to take as long as an 8×10″ spread.
Watercolor pencils pitt pen Lamy pen Ef and safari
Margaret done for the night xoxoxo
After lifemodeling at noon.
Already changing her.
So far right now. Ilaina and I continue our torture. 🤣. Think this one is the best so far though her face is a little to red and the grey stripe on the left needs to be lifted. 
The drawing at first break. Her face was still not right. And the right hand too narrow.
Second break. Before her face got too red. Sigh.
On the whole I like her But check back tomorrow for minor changes.
My favorite bit of the painting. Almost abstract.
Colors used cad red light cad yellow light cad orange alizarin cobalt Cheap Joes Andrews turquoise and mineral violet. Hair ultramarine and burnt umber but needs to go darker.
Greys burnt sienna cobalt and/or ultramarine and burnt umber.
140# Fluid cold press paper
Drew Murphy acrylic
Al Byre oil
Eve Crit charcoal
Fredliani as I have nicknamed him or Fred as everybody calls him. Rather like the wild colors in this one. Fredlianis letting his fauvism show. He’s even messed up his palette. Usually it’s surgically neat and orderly.
Ruth Pearls photo of a daff in the snow in Chickamauga Ga today.
Margaret xoxoxo
Her way to cheer someone up. I started her with watercolor pencils but shifted to regular watercolor. Pen is sepia Pitt pen on 140 Fluid cold press paper.
Colors used yellow ochre Burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine.
Margaret ready to put on her jammies and warm up at her house. Xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 