Somebody moved the chair or maybe it’s the morning light on the house next door but it makes an intriguing difficult to draw geometric.
Are the proportions right. Not quite but I think close enough. What do you think?
I even think it might make an interesting abstract painting.
Lamy Ef Noodlers brown Ink hahnemuhle journal which is already falling apart after a month of use. Annoying. Back to stillman and birn after this.
Margaret in Atlanta heading home soon. Xoxoxo
The picture doesn’t do this bird justice. She just glowed on her white paper in the sunlight on the dash of my car as she rode off to the mailbox. 
That’s the sword brush from Rosemary’s Brushes at the top of the photo.
There is no way you can make a tight painting with a sword brush but it does some great line work that is slightly out of control. The feet show some of the line work it can do.
The lines in her hair and her straps were done with the sword brush too. It’s fun to draw with because you can’t control it well.
Cheap Joes Kilimanjaro watercolor paper in a 4×6″ pad. Colors used chrome green opera pink cerulean burnt sienna ultramarine. Think that’s it. And mud from my palette for splatters.
Margaret xoxoxo
Wasn’t going to do this today. I have a friend who needs cheering up so this postcard is flying off to the friend tomorrow. 
And of course it’s drawn from my favorite photo I took last week.
Cheap Joes Kilimanjaro cp 140# derwent inktense pencils and Charles Reid palette colors. The strawberry is dotted with gouache mixed with cad yellow light. Strawberry is cad red light burnt sienna and a mixed neutral tint.
Wren mostly yellow ochre burnt sienna and burnt umber with dabs of mixed neutral tint on the eye and legs.
Margaret who is going to eat a salad for dinner. Xoxoxox
Ponce City these need W O R K lol
The old DeKalb County court house. A guy walking by on Ponce said it was beautiful. He didn’t notice my egregious error. Or that darn fly lol. 
That’s better.
These are all 9×12″. Stillman and birn Alpha. Lamy Joy and Lamy Vista. My Ef was out of ink. I was actually going to paint today. I seem to have left my whisky painter box at home. Darn. I lugged some water brushes all over town. No paint. 😵😵😵
Watercolor to come.
Margaret off to a family dinner and an awards nite for Henry. Xoxoxo
I have been doing inktober aka 31 ink sketches. Question is do you make it to the finish line of one ink drawing a day?!!!
I threw one of those strips in my purse before I went to Costco. 
Sat down at the restaurant area and put my satchel purse up on the table to hide behind. Parking yourself somewhere with a good site line to streams of people is always a good idea when doing these. 
Started drawing with my Namiki Fude pen-love it’s thick thin lines. I tried to finish it at Lowe’s today BUT huge trucks thought they needed to be close to the door and blocked my view. 🤨
Pretty soon I had a whole strip done. I ended up at the Walmart grocery store because they always have a good flow of people going in and out.
Be brave and go to Costco or sams and draw the herds of people that walk by. Lotsa fun.
Margaret xoxoxox hanging out with a friend who is heading back to Charleston tomorrow.
Summer Snow – Fluid 140# cp paper 15×22″
Sorry for the late post. Been working on this when I wasn’t busy walking 🚶♀️ 🚶 🤗!! My feet are tired.
What I started off drawing.
I drew it with a 2 B Derwent sketching pencil. Very soft. Before I started painting I erased it to lighten the pencil marks.
Here we go. Decided the background was too light. 
Kind of wish I had left it. 
But I thought the background was too close in tone to the flowers. No idea why I thought that but I did. 
So I darkened it. Hmmm. Well those flowers really show now. And they look cut out. Not a good thing in a paintjng. Oopsey.
Lots left to paint on this half sheet.
Heading toward THE END! I was getting tired and probably should have stopped.
But I kept on. Now you might notice the flowers don’t look so cut out now. That’s because my friend Mike suggested I use a Mr Clean eraser on the flower edges to soften them. THANKS Ms. Mike!! That helped.
Now the question of the hour is more splatter or not on the flowers especially the ones on the right side. I think I will sleep on it. Have to work fast because those crepe myrtles don’t last long.
Charles Reid Holbein colors plus quin gold.
Margaret putting her feet up with the tv clicker in her hand. Xoxoxo
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hard to believe it’s already Dr Sketchys time.
Started off great. A five minute gesture sketch done with a pentel brush pen and watercolor.
Stephanie was our model. Such a hoot. She’s the mistress of the Augusta’s Chat Noir Burlesque troupe- also very funny. The burlesque ladies have a show coming up July 21 22nd. Hope to make it.
Stephanie is as Frida Kahlo. Then it went downhill for a while. I am blaming painting all afternoon. I was tired!
Stephanie the vamp.
Thirty minute final pose. Quite pleased with it!!
Finally I tossed my pentel brush pen and drew with a stadler B pencil and voila got one I liked.
Here’s the sketch before I painted it.
I used my Holbein Metal Palette with Charles Reid colors. Ordered a new one from amazon because this one is getting rusty and crusty. I lust for a Craig Young Palette at $480 🤪. When I am rich and famous right?!!
Drawn in my super aquabee tablet. 11×14″
Margaret xoxoxoxo off to run errands before I head to The western North Carolina mountains for the weekend of the fourth.
12×16″
Tonite Feb 24 at Sacred Heart. My sketch as well as 70 other pieces of art will be up at silent auction for adoption to decorate your walls with some fabulous art. 
There will be some wild fun entertainment engineered by Vintage Oolie. Always interesting. All money raised goes to the Augusta Arts Council.
I was trying to keep the sketch light and loose. I meant to take a photo of the ink drawing which was not exact just close. Loosening up as Bob Burridge would say. I was also trying to keep it transparent.
I really loathe painting trees with watercolor and it always seems to show. I had to work on them a lot to get them right. Multiple Layers.
SKY – blotted the washes as I laid them down to get cloud. Used cerulean blue and some verditer blue.
Building – quin coral quin gold with dioxzine purple and cobalt blue with some cerulean and quin burnt orange for the greys.
Trees – quin gold, Daniel Smith gold green, cobalt, ultramarine blue, dioxzine purple and mineral violet.
Come on out. Always a fun event.
Margaret xoxoxox
Pretty exciting news to me. I would like to thank and welcome all my new followers. Did I did I do that already!? Probably but hey thanks again!!
And did I say 
Happy New Year!!!
So time to post some art. This is Peachtree about the 1400 block right near the Center for the Puppetry Arts. Not yet painted. I was on my easy from Aam Flaxs to Dick Block/Utrecht store.
What color there is was done with a tea bag. Had no idea it would color it so much just painting. If it gets too soupy it will run thru the binding in my Stillman and Birn but then so will watercolor. 
Another blank page colored with my teabag. Kinda fun. Try it.
Margaret whose getting three free hours and a babysitter so I gotta run.
Happy New Years and thanks again for all the follows. Hugs xoxoxo
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Think I will get some of that fabriano hot press I have been wanting while I am at it.
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Margaret xoxoxo
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