Category: Dr Sketchys

Day 322 – Good Books

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shopping for Franklin and Froggy books at our Gucci Goodwill. Found a stack. Sat down to draw the customers in the Good Eats Cafe there. 

Some days you can’t draw at all. Viewing it as a warm up for Dr Sketchys tonite. Hope I do better then. 

These are the best of the trash that I drew. Could not get in the rhythm today. 

  
I brought in a sketchbook with only two pages left DUH! So I drew over some screwed up pages of Rhineharts Oyster Bar. 

  
Browsers and worker bees at Good Books. 

  
Rhineharts roof. Guess I could have drawn on the napkins!?  

Sorry about the quality of the photos. Weird shadows from the lights in Good Books. 

Maybe color would improve these?! Or a brush pen!?

Thanks for reading.  

Margaret XXX

Day 267 – Dr Sketchys – Part 2

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All of these were drawn last week at Dr Sketchys. An about ten drawings that note. Dr Sketchys is always the Kay Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at Chat Noir at 8th and Ellis in downtown Augusta Ga. But it is a worldwide movement. You can find a group near you or start one!!!

All sketches are down with Pentel brush pen Pentel color brush pens and Tombow markers. 

 

 Cosmo detail posted earlier today on IG. A great model. Interesting poses. And he held them. This was a ten minute pose. 

    

 


Cosmo the whole guy!! His boots were too big and flipped on his feet which made them hard to draw. 

 

 Cosmo – oops he didn’t need his foot!! A lot of red lights on him. 

  

Cosmo is a fire water. This is actually two poses. He ate fire first. Then he loaded putting it out. 

  

And poor Cosmo was embarrassed by this pose. 

 

The last pose of the night. I think the elephant was funny. Others not so much. And that’s a wrap. Something new tomorrow. 

Thanks for looking.  

Day 266 – More Urban Sketching

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 The little boy in the blue shirt was helicoptering his arms and I tried to capture that. 

 These are the very first Fast sketches I did of people going into Earthfare as I sat waiting to meet my friend to drive downtown to dr Sketchys.  

 

Finally got them colored. These are definitely like potato chips. You can’t do just one. And people love looking at them too. Trying to see if they know who is in the sketch. 

  

These are done in a largest Strathmore 500 Mixed Media Journal with a Pentel Brush pen and colored with watercolor pens and Tombow markers. 

 

These were done in my moleskine accordion book. I have now filled up about five feet of it. 

Thanks for looking!!  

Day 264 -Dr Sketchys

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Dr Sketchys is the last Wednesday of each month at the Chat Noir at 7 pm. Come on down and join the fun!!

   

Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash  

 Dr Sketchys is the best sketching fun in Augusta. Fast sketching. 2-20 minute poses. Off the wall different models who are actually burlesque, circus performers or even strippers.  You never know what their day job is but you can bet they are not waiting tables at Waffle House tables at nights.  Contests for tickets to Chat Noir performances and sometimes a drink or two. We find that a martini or a bourbon and coke loosens up the drawing fun! 

Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash 

5 minute pose 

Cosmo was a great model. Rock steady. Interesting poses.  Penetrating eyes. 

 Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash 

This is a presketch. He was trying out poses and Ann Delore and I decided to limber up our pens and chalk. Most of these were done with the Pentel brush pen, Pentel color brush pens, Tombow markers and some Wink of Stella pens(glitter pens). 

 

  Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash

Another five minute sketch. Oops I cut off his legs. HOW did I manage to get all of him in the one minute drawing previous to this and cut his legs off in the five minute one?!

 

Triple Hats

Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash 

My favorite so I posted it again. He could stare holes they you with his eyes.  

 

 Cosmo C. Margaret McCarthy Hunt Pen and ink wash

Notice anything funny about this one?! His legs are too short I think. I need to measure to see if he fits within 7.5 heads length. I think he’s 6.5 heads. Otherwise I love this sketch. 

Ann and I started laughing at some point because we never could quite get all of him on the page. Maybe it was that Appltini?!

More Dr Sketchys tomorrow or maybe that great window of easter hats I sketches downtown today. Unbelievable hats. You will swoon.  NOT!! 

Day 263 – the last breakfast at least til Sunday

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Looking at my sketchbook a friend pointed out to me today that I must really be into my breakfasts. Of course I should have retorted that she was the one who got me into going out for breakfast. She’s been doing it for years  before I met her. Now that we have both left the teaching profession we meet once or twice a week for breakfast and then I run errands in town. If I stay home I get busy and put the errands off. Not good when it’s a Target bill that I pay off every month or time to pay for the cell phone. 

 

 My favorite breakfast is the breakfast bowl at the inner bean a local cafe run by two moms Donna and Ann. Keeps them skinny!! 😃   Back to the bowl. I think it’s pretty healthy.  Be healthier if I left out the bacon but is 60% of the wheat is drenched in roundup before we eat it might as well enjoy our bacon.  Much tastier than wheat. 

Last nite was Dr Sketchys. Our favorite art event of the month. Last night was stellar. I won a contest twice. Here’s one of the sketches.

 

This is Cosmo a burlesque performer in a five minute pose. Cosmo could hold a pose like the Rock of Gibraltar. Pentel brush pen in my strathmore mixed media journal. And yes he has three hats on his head!! 

 

 Something else I did yesterday that was terrific fun while waiting for my friend Ruth at Earthfare. I drew the customers as they went in and out of the store. Just gesture sketches but SuPeR fun.  

  

Stay tuned for a post on these.  There are a lot of them. 

Thanks for looking!!