At my house in solidarity with Italian Urban Sketchers that couldn’t get out and draw. Did I say drawn last Sat. Just painted today?! Summer coming fast along the river!!
Stillman and Birn Zeta uniball micro Watercolor
Margaret thinking abt zipping up a stack of face masks. Hmm if only I thought they would work. Sad times. Xoxoxo
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
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
Did I say exhausting?
Nothing like a sixty mile drive to paint and hanging out with friends to make you Tahred. 🤣But I managed to nap after the tenth correction after I got home anyway.
I thought the pose would kill me drawing it. Arms and legs going every which way. And that hand and foreshortened arm on the right. Eeekk.
I drew that arm and hand over and over again til I finally figured out you can’t see her forearm duh.
But maybe this is how she looked when I left?! Her face was squinchy but like the body.
And what about that neck. Groan.
The things you don’t notice in an hour or so of painting.
So here she is now. As Mike pointed out her eyes were NOT right. Too close together. So I fixed that. I also lightened her chin and widened her weird neck that I had given her.
Added a few shadows and called it quits. Well till I decide more Ilaina torture after I stare at it for a while.
Margaret going back to her nap. Xoxoxox
the sketch and a toning wash of ochre and turquoise
dr bill oil
Coach Larry knocking them out. Charcoal.
The way she looked when I left life modeling today. 
The way she looks now. 
I decided I had really messed her face up and decided to lift a half inch strip down her face as delineated by the pencil mark.
I used masking tape and a mr clean eraser.
The sketch
First break. At this point I was happy. Then down the rabbit hole. Sigh.
As many times as I have drawn Ilaina u would think it would be a piece of cake. NOPE.
No idea how I went so wrong. Still doesn’t look like her but she looks better.
I do really like her hands. Maybe I should just paint hands.
Margaret hanging it up for tonite.
I past this cute cabin on the way into Brevard over the holidays but lazy me just got around to painting the sketch.
I stood on the side of Highway 64 on a bright cool day to draw the cabin which was so cheery and bright in its field. Not always easy to find a place to draw on the busy windy mountain road.
Here’s the sketch. On some kind of cold press watercolor paper. Probably Fabriano.
I used a lot of white gouache on the tree in the foreground which was fun. Have a rough texture over the grey of the smeared pen.
Sky is Cheap Joes Andrews turquoise. Gold is Daniel Smith quin gold. I mixed burnt sienna and the Andrews turquoise for the trees greens and the greys. Love dual purpose colors
Micro Uniball pen.
Margaret ready to hang it up for the day xoxoxo
Not a sketch of the cabin but a random house on the road into Brevard from Sapphire. Scene Looks pretty in the morning sun so I pulled into a loggers driveway across the road and drew it.
Drawn on some random loose paper in the car with a black ultra fine uniball pen.
Almost a week with no wifi no cable. We twitch our noses at it will start up fro a second or two two bars of u are lucky. Then without even moving the signal is gone. 😵🤔 So didn’t even bother with blog posts.
Time to get back in the swing of things. Hmm why didn’t I draw my croissant. Sooo good at Bracken Mountain Bakery in Brevard.
Headed into Brevard to meet a freeing from USC Aiken to do an art gallery walk in Brevard. Hard to do when you have young grandkids along. We tend to hit the toy store and the ice cream shop which are also a lot of fun.
The wild flower field in front of the cabin. Now brown but it’s so gorgeous when it’s full of purple Dutch iris and lupine. Later Joe Pye weed fills the field. 
And the mighty Thompson Rover from the front porch of the cabin. Best wild fly fishing river publicly accessible in the WNC aka western North Carolina. My son is lucky enough to own that stretch. The rest is in the Nantahala National Forest.
To start was helpful. The painting is about 16×20 coldpress fluid 140# paper. 
The sketch at the first break with just a little color added. My biggest problem was as Charles Reid said “NEVER draw a head smaller than four inches.” It makes it too hard to paint the features. Oh well being annoyed with our painting short comings keeps us coming back to try again.
Bill Daniels small oil
Al Beyer sorry about the bad light
Drew Murphy – old Holland acrylic. Looks a lot like an oil.
And Dr Freds large acrylic. His are always just fun and whimsical. Everyone else fled before I thought to take photos. Oops.
Margaret who really needs to get her presents wrapped but first a long nap. Three hours sleep is NOT enough. 😴😴😴😴
15×22″ coldpress fluid paper
Was having a terrible time drawing Ilaina this am so I turned the paper over and painted her without a drawing. This painting took about an hour.
Here she is after about 40 minutes sooo wet. The paper just rippled. Thank goodness I found a hair dryer under the bathroom sink so I could dry her.
She may get some tweaking or maybe not. Right now thinking her ear needs to be cleaned up with a Mr Clean. It should be similar in color to the rest of her face. and those silly little pieces of hair. I had to play with my Cheap Joes Scroogys loose goose just once.
Colors used alizarin cad orange cad red for skin tones. Alizarin shadows with cobalt mineral violet and Cheap Joes Andrew turquoise. Hair burnt sienna and ultramarine.
Fred’s mondigliani. Told him he should finish it.
Drews acrylic. I made her look younger. I think he made her look older. He’s using a new brand of acrylic paint. Old Williamsburg. Their oil is suppose to be THE best oil.
Only two more people came. Did get photos of theirs.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 