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Day 927  Inner Bean again 

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But I was drawing lunch not drawing the restaurant. First piece of cake from Inner Bean in months. I used to eat cake there a lot. Not since I have lost 30 lb. 

Worst thing about drawing your food is that you can’t eat it til you draw it. I got

The delicious strawberry cake first. Before the salad. And I was hungry. I resisted. Did I say Inner Bean is famous for its cake?   They won Best Cake in Augusta recently. The cake is Just THE  best.

Ttyl

Margaret with a busy week. Getting ready for My solo show next week. Xoxox

Day 926 – Ponce City Market-Day 3

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Working little is Looking Down

This is day three working on this huge acrylic. Well huge for a very short person. Lol. It’s 3’x4′. 

Sorry the picture is not better. 

Bytw the photo I am using to paint from  was taken from the second floor of Ponce City Market looking down on the restaurant tables below. The ceilings are very high so it’s like it was take from the third story. 

The day I took photos the man on the right was everywhere. Always in the background cleaning. Always working silently in the background. 

This is what it looked like yesterday when I worked on it. Still a lot to do. I don’t have the picture of the sketch because I started painting it as I was sketching it. 

The sketch lines were becoming jumbled and confused so I started blocking in the colors so I could see what I was drawing. What was right and what was wrong. 

Colors used. The undercoating is Nickel Azo gold. Other colors pyrrole red, Winsor purple, thalo blue, black, burnt umber, titanium white. Also

Using up lots of tail ends of tubes before they dry out like yellow ochre. 

Ttyl gym time. 

Margaret tearing herself away from the tv. Xoxoxox

#poncecitymarket

Day 922 You Knew It 

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Part 2 Dr Sketchys. I did more than a dozen sketches Wednesday nite. And met friends for a delicious dinner at Bees Knees before. Avocado chop chop. Who knew a baked avocado could be  So delicious. Loaded with crab. I really must draw one. And the rainbow trout perfection. All the while we sat in a store display window eating all this deliciousness. 


Going to have to go back and snap some pics when the bar is full. Love this shot it just needs people. 

More jujitau sketches. This one was five minutes I think. 


Hmm his head is too small I think. Hard to tell now with no reference pic. 


We were suppose to add a monkey to this contest sketch but darn I forgot. Too busy drawing and painting. 


Not bad but head is off. Ilaina really is a gorgeous woman inside and out. Doesn’t do her justice. 


The best of three attempts. Body is good but face too cute. 

Chin too long. Legs too short. As I told Rachel I peaked too early. Lol. 

And oh my – legs ridiculously short. Actually head doesn’t look bad. The vagaries of fast sketching.  


Another contest sketch. I will actually be selling this one at Wet Paint an auction for Greater Augusta Arts Council Feb 18. Funny while sketching it I realized that I had no idea what an ak 47 or a kolishnikof looks like. I don’t even know how to spell the later. lol. 

Busy day. Ttyl 

Margaret who needs to shed Her cat and dog blanket and get dressed. Xoxoxo

Day 914 – Your Own Coloring Book

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Today’s assignment was draw a coloring book page with a marker and color it. Done!! Don’t forget you can copy  your coloring book page and color it in lots of different ways. 

 Still trying to use the wild fauvist colors. Drawn with my black tombow pen in my Stillman and Birn Zeta. 

Ps don’t know why I didn’t think about this but copying the coloring book page before you color r it you could also share it with your favorite short people like my grandson and niece who are four and five and LOVE to color. What better than their own coloring sheet made by their favorite artist?

Ttyl 

Margaret xoxoxo

Day 905 – the Bean

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Everybody’s favorite place to eat lunch in Augusta or for a coffee or even better some of their amazing cake. They give you a slab of home made cake for $4 or $4.50. Today I had their Tuscan Bean Soup which was delicious. A big bowl and some delicious ice tea $5. A good deal. 

I don’t think I have ever eaten anything that was not delicious at the bean as we call it. Their coffee is from that other fabulous cafe that I drew a couple of weeks ago The Dancing Goats in Decatur. 

Painted in my new STillman and Birn Zeta.  Drawn with a Lamy Ef loaded with Lexington Grey and painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. 

Sketchbookskool Homework. 

Draw some textured objects. I might have gotten carried away but have had these on my art table for a while to draw. I can check them off my list now right?! 

Pens used Staedler .01, carbon Platinum pen w carbon platinum black ink and a Pitt calligraphy pen which I soon abandoned because it was too dark to me. 

Stillman and Birn mixed Zeta journal. 

Ttyl 

Margaret off to bed early after two hours at the gym and walking a couple of miles. Color me tahred. Xoxoxo

Day 902 Mahjong Ladies and a guy 

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Trying to fill up the last few pages of my Stillman and Birn zeta sketchbook. Drawn with my Lamy Safari filled with Lexington Grey ink. 
Stopped by Higher Grounds cafe to look for a book and found multiple tables of Mahjong filling the cafe. 

Irresistible. I sat down to draw them. I don’t think any of them ever noticed me sitting a few feet away sketching them. They were very involved in their games. 

Oddly enough they had been there the day before when I played bridge there with my friends. I am now wondering if they are there everyday. Will have to drop by and see. 

This old man was also irresistible. He was sitting there reading something and enjoying his coffee. Clemson orange shirt. A lot of that lately.  Championship game tomorrow nite. 

Painting. Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. Been adding slot of purple to the quin sienna in the backgrounds. And my painting with my Richeson #12 mop. Keeps me from getting too picky. 

I resisted the urge to splatter. Think the guy could use some don’t you?! 

Have a great Sunday. Stay warm. 

Margaret xoxoxo who thinks it’s time to shed her flannel jammies don’t you?! 

Day 900 Augusta Ga 

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Home of James Brown. Yesterday I had wanted to draw a musician live and thought where the heck will I find one of those?! 

Met a friend downtown at New Moon Cafe and as I was leaving guess what happened. A saxophone player started playing OUTSIDE!! Hurrah!! 

So I sat out on this cold rainy day with Calvin and drew him. He was thrilled when he saw it. I also gave him a nice tip. 

I asked him why he was out in 47 degree weather in the rain playing. He said he had gotten the notion that he needed to play “Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head” downtown today. So he did. 

Here’s Calvin before I added the scratchy lines with my noodler Konrad. I think the thin lines really added to the energy of this sketch. He tended to stand still when he played so not much action to draw. 

I used my Pentel Brush pen and Noodler Konrad. Tried to use a thick sharpie but it bled thru the heavy pages of the mixed media S&B zeta. So I did not keep using it. 

I may paint this. I haven’t decided.  

The quote on the top right is a quip from my friend Marsha over our breakfast at New Moon Cafe this am. Yummy but FaTTeNinNG!!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret in rainy Georgialina xoxoxox

Day 899 – Some More Urban Sketching

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I pass this cute diner every day twice a day on the way to class at USC Aiken or on Saturdays when I go to life modeling. I am always on a mission to get to Aiken on time or to get home and let the dogs out so I never have stopped to eat there. I hear the pies are great. They decorate it up for fall. Lots of pumpkins corn stalks and roosters. There’s even an old ford truck that gets strung with garlands of fall leaves. I didn’t draw it. I ran out of space. 

Here are the brushes I use. The bottom is my fav a sable Da Vinci 10 but the  tree and the sky were painted with a Richeson mop. A 12 that I bought at cheap joes two years ago. Very difficult to get any detail with it which is good in tree foliage. The tree branches and trunk were painted by a big goats hair dagger brush that I got at Sam Flaxs a couple of weeks ago. Very long and loopy  designed for sign painters. So far I can only get it to paint lines – Straight and curved ones. Practice right?

 

And I love this sassy rooster sculpture out on the highway in front of the cafe. I need to draw him with a brush pen on a sunny day. School starts Monday so will passing the charming fellow again several times a week. Maybe one day on the way home again soon. 

Stillman and birn Mixed media Zeta with a pilot Carbon pen. Really fine point. 

Colors used. Quin gold. Cerulean, ultramarine, burnt umber, Quin burnt orange, pyrrole red, cad orange, hematite green, peacock for the sky.  And a bit of American Journey Andrews blue a turquoise that I added to my pallet  lately. 

Homework done. Done. Had to make myself do this one and I love doing calligraphy just not fond of the word hate. Used my pentel brush pen -heavy lines- a Noodler Konrad – fine black lines – and a red tombow for hate. Oh a light Gray tombow for shading in love. 
That’s all folks. Got to do my homework for sketchbookskool. Did I say I am behind because I went sketching Mahjong ladies at a local cafe after yoga today when I should have been doing my homework. 

A bientot Margaret xoxox

Day 898 The Best Burgers 

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Are at Farmburgers in Decatur. Locally grown food to table restaurant on Ponce de Leon. I drew this with my Lamy Safari during g the end of rush hour.

 The guy in the foreground who was maybe a foot from me was so involved in his conversation that he never noticed me drawing him. 

The waitress did though. She loved it. 

Of course all the people were not where they are at the same time. I dropped in the foreground people adding the background and the people in line with menus after the foreground. 

Sometimes I mess up and do it the other way. That NEVER works out well. Oops. 

Remember FOREGROUND first then background. Ok?! 

Colors used same as yesterday. 


Today’s sketchbookskool installment. Draw an electric cord with a brush pen. I used my pentel brush pen. 

Not as easy as you would think. Really didn’t like it til I added the grey tombow shadows. 

Used a light grey tombow for the cord shadows. 

And splattered it with a bit of black watercolor paint. 

Both sketches are in Stillman and Birn zetas. 

Ttyl playing bridge today. NOT played inmore years than I care to think. Twenty maybe? 

Pray for me. 

Margaret who better get dressed.  xoxox

Day 897 More Urban Sketching or the Best Coffee in Georgia

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I drew this the other day when I met Nellie Brannan for coffee at the Dancing Goats in Decatur. It’s Decatur’s favorite coffee shop. Their coffee is sold in Augusta at Augusta’s favorite coffee shop the Inner Bean.  

I drew the brave people sitting out on the sidewalk in front of the dancing Goats as they walked thru the scene.  There was alot of coming and going. 

Colors used cerulean quin gold cad orange cad red hookers green ultramarine blue quin coral and marine blue.  Stillman and Birn zeta Lamy Safari Lexington Grey 

Sketchbookskool homework. Draw a still life with thick and thin lines. I used a tombow instead of a fine and a thick sharpie. 

I really didn’t like the line drawing so I got out a watercolor brush and some water and let the tombow bleed. Then I added some water to the shadows and picked up the grey to splatter it. Like it a lot better now. 

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret xoxox