Decided to quickly draw my Sunday brunch before I ate it. Hmm it’s an omelet. Got a little dark. Aka lost my yellows. But on the whole I like this a lot.
The tulips were really standing up but they are so pretty decided to draw them flopping so they would fit.
Since I also used a Prismacolor art stick or two and a white gel pen this is really mixed media.
Lamy safari Arches #280 paper Lexington grey ink.
Margaret xoxoxo
Off drawing something somewhere today so thought I would share this new painting with you.
All about the Catsup based on a picture I took on my birthday at Flying Biscuit in Candler Park on McClendon in Atlanta. I had my camera propped on the counter which gave everything an odd angle.
I lightened and brightened the catsup and darkened the counter so it would stand out. I added some Indian yellow to Quin red to make a lighter brighter catsup color. So far I like it.
Last Wednesday my friend Drew said I had made her look like she was drooling. Oops. I hope I fixed that.
Colors I have been using Quin red Indian yellow ultramarine blue and thalo blue titanium white. Burnt umber. A liquitex light blue and flesh color and a tad bit of primary yellow. And that’s it.
Here’s the picture.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xoxoxo
Ah NO. have a pile of 7-8 sketches to paint. Oh my!!
In the meantime. MY fav heathy out and about breakfast the bowl at the Inner Bean. Scrambled eggs black beans avocado tomatoes bacon and hmm oh cheese. Yum.
These guys sat next to me at the Bean as I ate my bowl. Deep in conversation over Masters preparations at local golf courses. Never noticed me sitting there sketching them.
Both done with a Lamy EF with Lexington Grey ink in a Stillman and Birn Alpha. Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus cerulean.
A few of the pics of sketches I need to get painted.
Thanks for stopping by.
Margaret xoxoxo
Sketched at the Aiken Brewing Company on Laurens St downtown Aiken
Colors used Quin gold Quin red orange cerulean, burnt umber, ultramarine, hookers and a gel pen or two.
Draw with a Lamy Safari and Lexington Grey ink in a Stillman and Birn Zeta.
Als painting of a student circus 1990. Even then he was trying to paint like Vermeer.
Als friend from the gym who loved to tell stories. He was a rower in the 52 and 56 Olympics for Hungary.
Al after his heart attack. He used his computer camera to take this photo. 
The models make Al look like a great painter so he says but we know he’s a great painter. 
Ilaina gorgeous as ever. A Saturday painting. 3×4′
Als office. Always neat. Painted with acrylic. Much wilder than his oil paintings. LOVE This one. Think it got a certificate of merit at the State Fair.
Als an awesome painter and teacher the reason. I drove 60 miles three times a week to Aiken to become a better painter I HOPE!!
Xoxoxo
Margaret
Our beloved prof Al Beyer was the program at the Aiken Art Guild last night and he was his usual humorous self peppering his talk with quip after quip such as “If you get a bad painting it’s your failt but if you get a good one (at lifemodeling) it’s all the model!! And that is true well sometimes.
This huge seemingly abstract is the way Al works. It will be a photorealistic water landscape painting when he’s done or as he calls it the most boring painting ever since it will be almost all water with his. A bit of tree bank across the top.
We told him we liked it as it is. An abstract.
He blocks off the painting into multiple blocks the size of a standard piece of paper. Every nite with a printed paper from his tiled photograph he paints one section in oil with a small brush which takes him about 2-3 hours per square.
Here he is with his helper Vanna aka Ilaina – one of our Saturday models.
Here’s a better picture of this huge painting. It’s made by layering multiple photos of Beijing in Photoshop. Interesting effect.
Hmm my sketchbook seems to be among the missing. I drew theses ladies yesterday while my excellent steak salad got cold at Aiken Brewing Company on Laurens Street in Aiken.
Hope I find it. It will be a great painting when I am done. Sigh.
Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo
Always a good place to draw. Add people as they drift into your picture. Next time we are drawing at Wet Paint party at Sacred Heart an incredible setting Saturday Feb 18 7-10 pm. 
Trying something new. This is my Woman’s March sketch on a small canvas. What do you think? It’s 14×16.
This is the original sketch.
Gotta run. Another busy day. Tomorrow I collapse and go to the Y for yoga. Relaxing.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
So I will make this short.
I keep thinking there’s a painting. At Costco. Maybe several. Not sure. I drew this at the pre Super Bowl snack frenzy. Vultures including me walked away well fed. WHOLE slices of pizza. I stood not far from them booked propped on my cart, drawing and nobody noticed me. NOT ONE person. So strange.
The lady was handing out pizza bites. They had to pass right by me to get to the whole pizza slices. The mobs were huge. Sausage hot dogs Artichoke dip popcorn -lots of great snacks.
Noodler Konrad Stillman and Birn Zeta Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
The check out line at Costco. Think this might be my next acrylic. What do u think.
Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo
#costco
Sunday was a free day at the local museum. I had not been since it moved to its new building and it’s just remarkable. The Augusta room is so well done. The train that all my kids loved is still there to walk thru but now inside out of the weather.
This is drawn from a display of the Stallings Island Archaic period.
As a girl my friends and I volunteered at the museum and worked on the original arrowhead exhibit for the archaic period. We always had fun working after school at the old museum
I did mean to draw something else on this page but forgot so I filled it in with the notes on the Stallings Islnd culture. OOPPS. The yellow is. YOU guessed it. Quin gold. With cerulean
There’s an Augusta Trolley car too. AC and I had to check them both out. Very fun. Love be the bright yellow trolley. Going to have to go back when I can stay longer.
The 70s exhibit
An old water pumper. I drew it but still have to paint it. Maybe today?!
My sketchbookskool homework a Day in the Life. Should have done a two page spread because I ran out of room. Oh well it’s done.
If you want to try this make a list of your days activities OR just make blocks and fill them in.
Pitt pens pyrrole red Quin gold cerulean hematite green. Stillman and Birn mixed media Zeta.
Ttyl yoga time soon.
Margaret xoxoxo
The Panera on Robert C Daniel Parkway was jam packed last week. It was much multiracial than the Evans Panera is.
This is the first sketch I did there. Not perfect but hey it gets you out of the house.
This one was better. I just dropped people in as they wandered by. Lettering could be a little darker.
Ted Nuttalls transparent watercolor palette. Lamy Safari Stillman and Birn Zeta.
Time to go do some urban sketching.
Xoxoxo Margaret
The back porch squirrels and their antics are always fun to sketch. A ready model. Cheap. Will work for bird seed anywhere anytime anyplace. And of course I like to imagine what they are thinking as they gobble. Really need to name them Oreck and Dyson or Hoover. Miele?!
Drawn with a Lamy Safari in a Stillman and Birn Zeta mixed media.
Colors. Background Quinn gold squirrels cerulean Piemonte ultramarine. Splattered with Quin sienna or burnt orange.
Have a go at the squirrels. The back porch birds are fun to draw too. Use some gestures. It doesn’t have to look just like a particular squirrel it just had to look like a squirrel – the way they hold their food and hunch up over thier paws or spread their tails. Fun stuff.
Ttyl
Margaret off to look downtown and see what there is to sketch in this 72 degree day of sunshine. Xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
