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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Day 754 – Dr Sketchys tonite!!!

July 27, 2016July 27, 2016Leave a comment

A few random sketches from past Dr Sketchys!

Hurry you still have time to go. At Chat Noir downtown. 8th and Ellis. 7-10 pm

Cu there.

Costumes required Mermaid nite

Fawns

Double mermaids

She sells sea shells

FOzzie Bear

Tired Santa

Mobster and his moll

All sketches ink and tombow markers and a few with watercolor

Hurry you still have time to go. At Chat Noir downtown. 8th and Ellis. 7-10 pm. Cu there.

Day 747 a Bird

July 20, 201610 Comments

Probably my favorite bird at Parrot Mountain. I am a sucker for blues and this hyacinth parrot was just a beautiful deep blue. He’s the endangered bird in the movie Rio.

And yes his eyes and beak are a bright yellow.

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. Wet on wet and splatters after he dried.

Another sock done. I did this one in 24 hours and I exercised and cooked dinner too. Fasted sock ever. Crystal Palace mini Moochie yarn.

Thanks for reading n

Margaret xxx

Day 745 GNSP

July 18, 2016Leave a comment

Old Evans Family Cemetery tucked away in the woods near the Great Smoky National Park Headquarters. The first sketch I did when I was leaving.

I drew so much it took me four hours to drive thirty miles. But the park is gorgeous anytime of the year and something gorgeous is around every turn whether it’s a mountain view, a quiet stream dashing over rocks or wildflower. Just a drive thru the tunnel of trees is enjoyable.

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. A lot of splattering some negative painting.

Thanks for reading.

Margaret xxx

Day 740 – painting started

July 12, 2016Leave a comment

And a redo

Bear Country in Pigeon Forge.

I was sitting at the gas station and looked up to see this. Such great colors and people. You know I had to draw it.
Ivy Rose Wedding Chapel on the E Parkway Gatlinburg TN

A bit of a redo. Darkened it a lot. Gave more contrast to the white chapel. I really need to practice painting greenery. I do think it looks better than it did.

Here it is before.

But no more double page spreads in the Prius. What was I thinking.

Finally found the three foot plus strip that I drew near the Newfound Gap Overlook but this is looking toward Tennessee. The Gap is at the NC/TN state line.

Looking toward NC.

Here’s a closeup of the strip. I am going to practice painting more trees and mountains before I paint this.

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent pallette.

Thanks for reading.

Margaret xxx

Day 739!! Sunday

July 10, 2016Leave a comment

Mike High Overlook – Balsam point Great Smoky National Park.

And it’s my grandsons fourth birthday so still busy busy busy. Off to Walmart to buy a pool to hide dinosaur bones in. We are digging for bones this afternoon. And a bouncy house. Who needs presents??!

Oconaluftee Farm – Great Smoky National Park. If you haven’t been to the park you should. It’s truly a national treasure. So much to do and see and it’s all free.

All of these sketches were done on Strathmore 500 watercolor paper or in a Strathmore mixed media 500 sketchbook.

Most were done with a fine nib Carbon Platinum Pen with permanent Carbon Platinum ink. When I get home I will paint them and hopefully bind them into a book.

Barred Rock chickens at Oconaluftee Farmstead.

More Barred Rocks. Adding some elk prints to this one. They are everywhere at the farm eating the crops just like the deer.

Oconaluftee River with a gain sycamore. A few lines was enough. I can always add more when I am done.

Hopefully it will look like this when I get done.

Huge hemlocks at Oconaluftee.

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.

One coat of a nice green and he’s better. Not so pale and washed out.

The background is cerulean and Quin sienna. Not a big fan but the sienna works well with the cerulean. Splattered with the same colors.

Check by for a parrot update. Off to find something to draw I hope.

Margaret xxx

Day 73? – About that Parrot

July 7, 2016Leave a comment

Hot off the paint brush. Red macaw at parrot mountain. Best sketching fun I have had in a while. And it looks so much better painted.

Pyrrole red alizarin Crimson maganese blue and the usual culprits cerulean burnt sienna Inathrodone blue all done wet on wet. Oh burnt umber for the blacks.

I often wonder why I can draw animals and scenery in public as people drift by but if I am drawing people I like to hide my sketchbook.

A peach cockatoo. He was too far away and people kept walking in front of the bird. Painted with a red orange soup that was on my Pallette.

Entrance to Parrot Mountain and yes those are very steep steps. Pant pant. But the flowers are lovely. Parrot Mountain takes in rescued birds of all types but most exotic birds like parrots and macaws and large parakeets. Owners don’t realize that some of these birds can out live them.

We went in this way which is I guess the handicapped access- a concrete ramp which should be labeled ramp to heaven. Very steep!

A few macaws under their hats near the parking lot. Someone asked why they don’t fly away. They can’t. The wing feathers are cropped so the best they can do is flutter a short distance. Sad for the birds but at least they are well taken care of in a lovely jungly spot.