Tomorrow at 1EST @Pencils4tea on ig. Free zoom drawing lots of people for an hour.
Our fearless substitute leader Fun zany poses and lots of music. The hour will zip by!Day 88! #jyportraitchallenge Joyous Stella! Approaching 100 portraits. Never thought I would make it but the goal is in sight now.My Chinese brush. So useful for stringy bits and plaids
Andrews turquoise and ultramarine for the plaid using my big fat chinese brush splayed so u get lots of small thin points. M Graham perlene marroon for the purples in her face.
Skin is quin burnt orange and quin rose. Andrews turquoise cerulean and ultramarine shadows w dabs perlene marroon. Hair yellow ochre w burnt sienna cerulean and burnt umber a little quin burnt orange.
9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
First wash
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge and Stella @ mrs_booksart
The sketch The photo The geese out back enjoying some breakie this am. Evidently watermelon is tasty. Enjoying the water on his own. Just for laughs. The unicorn float disappeared from our pool. A unicorn thief?? No our granddaughter who loves them took it home. This pic was sent by her dad with her unicorn collection floating in the float in her pool. Rofl. Who puts stuffed animals in the pool??!??🧐😳
Day 87! #jyportraitchallenge Andrea Eleana @ humana_lince was not wild abt the photo but rather like the painting alot. Thinking Eve in the Garden of Eden.
The photoThe sketchAlmost forgot to take pics added some masking fluid.
Skin is quin burnt orange and quin rose. Andrews turquoise shadows. Hair yellow ochre w burnt sienna cerulean and burnt umber. Leaves sap green, cad yellow, cobalt, ultramarine, cobalt teal and peacock blue.
Opps she needs more quin pink. She is pink everywhere from her rosy cheeks to her shoulder.
Mary Whytes cats paw brush from cityart. 1 1/2” cheap joes golden taklon flat for the background & #4 cheap joes golden taklon and a 3/8” dagger striper from masters touch.
9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
Maybe enough with the quin rose?!
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge and Andrea Eleana @ humana_lince
Margaret who hopes to be watching Oppenheimer. Xoxoxo
Drawingisfree_org today. 16 portraits in an hour. OH MY. not what someone who doesnt feel well should be doing but then I lade a video of them. U can see lore at my ig feed. @maggieinsc. Chloe our drawing mc did poses mostly lasting less than three minutes. Even the double was three minutes 40. Oh MY. They are usually closer to six. Quite the challenge today. And yes i would do it again!! Lol. Cant wait for next week. Sick woman here in more ways than one. Hahaha.
Day 86! #jyportraitchallenge @sylvester.lifedrawing!! Loved the picture. Couldnt wait to paint him. Did not turn out the way imagined. What happens when u paint when u don’t feel well. Oh well.
The photo The sketch – 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
Lots of burnt umber and ultramarine. It will go quite dark. A bit of cobalt blue. Cerulean blue background. Ivory black for hair and bird w a dab of quin burnt orange.
Thought it was done but too light. 🧐Too blue. 😵💫Better. Had to add to the back of his head and his neck.
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge and @sylvester.lifedrawing!!
I dreamed of a Charles Reid style painting with burnt umber and ultramarine mingling to a lovely dark brown but nope was not to be. beyond me even when i feel well oh well onward and more coughing!!
Get your pencils sharpened. Don’t forget tomorrow is @drawingisfree _org at noon EST. Click on the zoom link. Cant wait for the fast paced hour of drawing people . We usually draw at least 13 heads. Great practice!
Day 85! #jyportraitchallenge Jill@jilliam58!!Time To Jump back on with the portrait of back pack girl. An outdoorsy woman living her best life.I thought she was done til i realized her chin was a smidge too long. Made her looks like Nixon or Jay Leno. Oops.Adding the scary ultramarine shadow on the left. Always looks like a terrible screw up when you do it but add in skin tone, soften the edges and voila you have a great shadow .Daniel Smith quin burnt orange and m graham quin rose for skin. m graham Burnt umber and ultramarine for hair and blacks. Cheap joes Alizarin bricks. m graham Mineral violet straps. 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.The sketchThe photo. Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge @JudithYaws and Jill@jilliam58Been busy with family visiting. A river cruise this weekend. Everyone had too much fun. Trestle on Little River. The Big Trestle on the Savannah. Osprey nest in the middle of it.
Margaret putting her feet up. #86 and 87 are done. Stand by dear readers. Xoxoxoxo
I thought i would check in with my dear readers. Dont forget today at 1 pm EST pencils4tea on instagram. Another fb hour of drawing people. Its go go go and the hour flies. Sadly i will be at Little Mermaid and miss the fun.
Yesterday to keep my hand in i drew my friends @MarkLipinski and @leslietuckerjenison as they yakked abt Marks fun take on the 60 days of index cards hes been drawing. Zany sketches of things like his crocs and black and white saddle shoes we all wore as kids. Leslie. Doesn’t do her justice. Leslie has talks every Wednesday on ig. Fun time to just take a break and listen to them natter on. But it was fun drawing it. Used the usual quin burnt orange and quin pink for the skin. Cobalt and ultramarine burnt umber. I also learned those Chinese were smart. I painted them all with this big Chinese brush. Great for faces and wispy hair. Only brush i have that can do it all. My fav and last of the three. Michele Muska i think. One other thing i learned. I do not like my new pack of general charcoal pencils. Too soft. A 2b a 4 b and a 6 b. I love a 4b or 6 b pencil nut not the charcoal. It lifts and smears. Back to my General hb on Monday for Drawing is free. Really love this portrait. 8×8 and for sale. used the exact same colors plus manganese and mineral violet. Those eyes! It was done quickly with big brushes. Mostly the big flat and the 3/8” saber brush w an assist in the hair from the Chinese brush.SketchGot tired of trying to draw the eyes the same size so i used the circle template, which I rarely use. First layerFace is done except for the eyesEyes are manganese and a bit of the Quinn burn orange. Before I added more lace to the bottom inch. And finished. I like this one a lot her eyes are very magnetic and the hair is the perfect combination of lights and darks.
Margaret up off to the grandkid races, little mermaid and a trip to target for birthday presents. Xoxoxo
Who am i kidding. Already busy. Grandkids are here for the week. SOOOO BUSYYYYY
Today!!! LIVE from Paris! Drawing is Free at Noon EST on Zoom!! NO charge NO Nudity. Just drawing heads. GREAT practice!!
Missed it last week due to our osprey rescue effort that came to naught. He was dehydrated and had internal damage and bleeding. Died on Th or Friday sadly. We were hoping for a return to the river for him but it was not to be.
The last few I have not posted.
Day 79 Lots of fun painting her turban. Ultramarine and hookers.
Day 78 – #jyportraitchallenge as usual the fabric, the fabric, the fabric. Hookers green and ultramarine. Thalo blue would have been better BUT i make such a mess w thalo.
Quin burnt orange was the perfect hue for her lovely skin for her skin w a bit of quin rose for the bloom in her cheeks.
Day 79 funny pose from Ludmila Artola. Her hair and fuzzy knot hat turned out great. The face well it needs the jaw softened. Leopold_artmodel Day 81 my current fav painting.
Had a rough time softening the purple shadow on his right arm.
Got to say w the superaquabee paper if u r not careful it will lift like the hahnemuhle will when u dont want it too. 😵
Otherwise i think my current fav paper in a sketchbook if only they made it in a heavier version or a bound one. Oh well. I no longer have the urge to rip paper out of the spiral. As Julianna Coles says u can always glue the pages together if u dont like them.
Skin is quin burnt orange and quin rose. Hair quin burn orange. The purple my beloved m graham mineral violet. Have a love hate w it.
Day 82 Camilla i didnt find the pose exciting til i focused just in her head w all that awesome curly hair. Was thinking preraphaelite.
Used my cheap 2 B Mechanical pencil on her. A papermate sharpwriter.
Brushes I am using right now. Mary Whytes cats paw brush from cityart. 1 1/2” cheap joes golden taklon flat for the background & #4 cheap joes golden taklon and a 3/8” dagger striper from masters touch.
DS quin burnt orange and quin rose, Cheap joes andrews Turquoise, cj yellow ochre, cj burnt umber, cj cerulean, cj cobalt , cj alizarin, and cj hookers green, cj Cad Yellow, m graham cobalt, mineral violet, and ultramarine watercolors, 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook.
Thanks! Judith @jyportraitchallenge @JudithYaws
Onward to day 84 or is it 85?! 🧐😱
Margaret w 15 left to go til she reaches her goal of 100 portraits. Then u am taking along nap. xoxoxoxo
Yesterday’s @pencils4tea fast sketches. 13 in an hour. So much fun. Can’t wait til mondays @drawing_is_free.org session. Charcoal pencil and watercolor in my superaquabee.
Charcoal pencil and watercolor 4 min
As always the hour flew by @pencils4tea
We memorialized Lesleys freshly broken arm. Ouch
Thanks Kirsty & Jane, it was fun! Live from Engand i think?! Always fun and challenging.
That camera pose oh my! And in three minutes no less. 😵💫😂
Live every Th @1 pm EST on Zoom. Free event!! 2-5 minute poses set to music. Lasts abt an hour. Time just flies during the hour.
Loved Mollys pose but I might have to titivate it. Aka make small changed. Hate the smear of quin rose on her cheek. Four minutes for this. Seriously?! Great pose. Loved her expression.
Really like the Generals charcoal pencil drawing w a shot of watercolors over it.
Liz always turns out so well. Five minutes was too long. Had to squelch my urge go titivate this one. Those hands! 😵
Used only two brushes a 1 1/2” flat cheap joes golden taklon and a 3/8” dagger striper from masters touch.
Sweet pose and yes sometimes u get cauliflowers. Oh well right?
Some of my fav artists like Don Andrews and Skip Lawrence tend to use alot of flats and oh my gosh they are fast and do the job well. Maggies hair was done in 1 swoosh of the1 1/2” flat.
Jane. I think a formidable woman. Not that I have ever met her. Shes in England somewhere.
DS quin burnt orange and quin rose, Cheap joes andrews Turquoise, cj yellow ochre, cj burnt umber, cj cerulean, cj cobalt , cj alizarin, and cj hookers green, Lukas Cad Yellow, m graham cobalt and ultramarine watercolors, 5×8” superaquabee sketchbook
Hmm oh well they cant all be perfect right?! Her overalls could use a swoosh of black.
I do love the mix of DS quin burnt orange and with a dab of quin rose for the skin tones. Works on the very pale or people of color like Liz. Add alot of water and u get a light skin tone like on the right of Mikalas face.
Sarah. A quiet pose. Umm what was i thinking. The last time I used that aureolin yellow and manganese. They turned ugly quickly. Marnie hiding behind her lilly. She really could use some titivating. Lol. Out back this am. Fog grows and grows. Then poof its gone.
Maggie in SC xoxoxox Cant wait for Mondays session of drawing_is_free.org 1 hr of sketching excitement on zoom.
Day 76 – #jyportraitchallenge That hair was alot of fun. Tried to loose the edge of his hair w wet on wet. All the shadows on his face caused alot of trouble.
The reference
Used these brushes a 1 1/2” chip brush for the background & #4 cheap joes golden taklon, a Chinese brush that I got at Binders In Atlanta and a 3/8” dagger striper from masters touch. The chinese brush is fun to use on hair.
The sketch
Mostly used Cheap Joes American Journey for this painting. You get alot of paint for a good price.
Eeekkk the ugly time
DS quin burnt orange and quin rose, Cheap joes andrews Turquoise, cj yellow ochre, cj burnt umber, cj cerulean, cj cobalt , cj alizarin, and cj hookers green, cj Cad Yellow, m graham cobalt, mineralq violet, and ultramarine watercolors, 9×12” superaquabee sketchbook
LIVE from Paris! Drawing is Free at Noon EST on Zoom!! NO Nudity. Just drawing heads. GREAT practice
Day 54- My fav painting so far.
Keeping it fresh i hope and not overworked. I used Mary Whytes fav flesh combo M Graham raw sienna and quin pink for the flesh tones. Works well for all skin tones just varying the amounts of raw sienna and water to lighten or darken the mix. Its the only combo she uses for skin tones. Sweet face w her fun two tone hair. Fun painting her curly hair again today. While i remembered to do the hair wet on wet it ran too much. Thicker paint next time.Lots of great lost edges in this painting
Day 55 #jyportraitchallenge. Definitely a TOUGH paint. All that shadow and the pic is black and white so what to do with the background?! Lots of dark blue since its the compliment of peach/orange and makes her skin sing. The blue also let me loose her left side in the shadows.
My fav part is where her left hip meets the background.Day 54 #jyportraitchallenge. Another crazy busy day so i just did our lovely model in profile. Hmm got the ear too far foreward otherwise fun painting her hair and the lovely lights on her chest. I used a big cheap chinese brush and a Cheap Joes Scroogys Loose Goose for her quin gold and quin burnt sienna tendrils. The Cheap Joes Scroogys Loose Goose is a very long very skinny saver brush that is almost impossible to control. You have to trust it it will make perfect curls.Day 52 #jyportraitchallenge. Love her eyes. Fun painting her curly hair. Forgot to soften the hairs edges by painting into the background wet on wet. Hopefully next time. Works so well w fluffy curly hair. Drawing went well. Done quickly.Day 51 #jyportraitchallenge. Miranda. So many details to paint. Need i say more!? Drawing went well. Done quickly. Painting wasnt bad either just too many things to paint. Note to self. Do not tape the corners. Duh!DAY 50!!! of the #jyportraitchallenge. Did not ever think that i would get this far. David @gotsix2 flew off my pencil and brush. Glad he’s done. Beard could use some more grizzle in it but hey done is good.
M Graham and a few Daniel Smith quins – gold burnt sienna and scarlet.
11×14” Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook OR Meeden cp 140. Or Fluid cp 140.
Painted w a Mary Whyte fav paint M Graham and her fav brush a cats paw, #10 Charles Reid kolinsky sable (both brushes and paint at Cityart in Columbia, SC @cityartsc ) and 1/2” Robert Simons synthetic flat, arches 140 cp 9×12”
Maggie who wanted to be sure to post today. Xoxoxox
Day 47 of the #jyportraitchallenge.Another watercolor I like. Getting to be a pattern. Hurrah!! She actually said she was done today.
Arches cold press 9×12”
Forgot to take process pics again. Too busy painting. Sorry!!
The photo
Quin scarlet and azo orange w dabs of the purple color background (why not spread the joy around?!) used for her hair otherwise Mary Whytes palette colors.
The pencil sketch Always a relief when the model shows up on the paper.
The purple on the background is a combo of ultramarine and perylene maroon a lovely combo. Painted w a Mary Whyte fav a cats paw, #10 Charles Reid kolinsky sable (both brushes at Cityart in Columbia, SC @cityartsc ) and 1/2” Robert Simons synthetic flat, arches 140 cp 9×12”.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 