Category: Life drawing

Day 730 – Happy Birthday Blog!!! 

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Happy Birthday Blog!!! Caran d’ache neocolor II on Kilimanjaro 5×7″

Absolutely THRILLED to say  TWO years of posting daily. I started out just trying to post daily for 50 days. I think I made it!! 😊👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Start of an Abstract iii 26×40 Arches 280# elephant sheet 

Have a couple of watercolors ready to paint. I really need to get with it but …..

So what else is up???  Plotting a trip to somewhere -probably France or China. 

Travelzoo had some great deals. $1800 for 14 days in China including air fare may be hard to pass up.

But then there’s a seven day deal in France 4-5 days in Paris, museum passes hop on hop off bus, then off to the French country side around Dijon driving ourselves. Thinking that could be an adventure to remember. 

Raisin full sheet watercolor Fabriano Hot Press just started 
And thinking about  a repeat of the Paris – Normandy Viking Cruise. You say why?! So I can draw Paris, Vernon, Auvers, Normandy and Rouen without being hustled everywhere nonstop while being pampered on the ship. Not bad. 

Never touching a suitcase has its appeals. 

It’s running $1900 including airfare. The southern leg thru Provence is also dirt cheap now. 

So many possibilities. Which will it be. In the meantime heading to the mountains and Key West while we decide. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret dreaming of foreign lands instead of painting. Xxx

Day 727 – A Hmm 

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But off to opthamologist to see if I have a retinal tear so this is all you get today. Maybe I need some glasses because drawing this statue of James Brown on Broad Street was NOT my finest hour. 


Once again I used Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus Daniel smiths green apatite. Love that for trees. The tree tops were sponged with a sea sponge. 

The greys were mixed usually with Quin burnt orange and ultramarine blue. The more color you add the darker the grey is. 

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret off to the doctor. Xxx

Day 725 Saturday. 

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Marking her up as a WIP. Her profile definitely needs some work but I like the odd colors she’s painted especially the Thalo blue and the golden green gold. A bit of liquitex cad red light, liquitex flesh and titanium white. The background is golden nickel Azo gold and green gold over em white gesso. 

Al Beyers oil

Ilanias

Cathe Dennis charcoal 

Lee Ringler pigma micron  pen 

Ruth Oearls beautiful pastel  


Tom Needhams watercolor


Fred Bakers fun acrylic 

Day 724. Oops 

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Thought I had posted this but was too busy painting. Busy day. What can I say!?  

Snacks at Costco were good today. That Kirkland wine is pretty tasty!

Thanks for reading.  

Margaret xxx 

Day 719 – Saturday 

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Already again.  


Ilania 20×24 acrylic 

This only took about an hour to paint. Somehow the thinned nickel Azo gold prepainted background really helped getting her done. 


After the first forty minutes. 

Of course after I started looking at her on my phoneI thought maybe I should have painted the drape she was sitting on. Her left arm looks chopped off. It’s really behind the chair she sat on. And her right arm though it looks great is suspended in space. So hmm.  What do you think?!  
She was painted with Winsor violet, liquitex burnt umber and titanium white, and golden fluid pyrrole red and nickel Azo gold. 


Al Beyers lovely large oil. Anout 4 feet long. The hand is just amazing. Remember these were all painted in about an hour and a half. 

Drew Murphys acrylic. Some lovely skin tones. Cezanne looking today. Great effect. 


Cathe Dennis from Lansing, Michigan’s pastel. She even knows where Diamondale is. My daughter in laws family lives there. Love her scribbles. For some reason  it reminds me of Toulouse Lautrec. 

Ruth Pearls awesome large pastel. 

Tom Needhams El Greco he always does beautiful skin tones. 


Fred Baker with his always interesting sense of color. 

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret xxx

Day 714 – It was 

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A trick. Found some more that I have not posted. At least I don’t think I did. 

Our sweet new friend Lenore 


And Piper the service dog. One of my favorite dog sketches ever. I might have posted this one but its so great i can post it again. He’s actually a black standard poodle which is difficult to paint so black shadows are sufficing-artistic license and all that!!! 


Here’s the whole page together. No idea why I didn’t paint the while background the same color. Ah well. No do overs with watercolor like one can do with watercolor. 


Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette. 


And the class synopsis with all John Salimens key points. 

Warning. There still may be one more set of pages. Not sure. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret off to French classes xxx

Day 712 – It’s Saturday 

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 Been a while since I posted one of these. Been out of town I think for the last two months or sick so haven’t been going to life modeling. 

And did I say rusty?! What happens when you don’t paint regularly. She looked good when I painted her. Not so sure now. Oh well there’s always gesso!! 


Or maybe she needs a good crop?! That’s one good thing about painting on hardboard you can crop it with a table saw. 

Thought I would share some of the other paintings done today. All but the watercolor are at least 24×30. 

This is Drew Murphy’s acrylic, my favorite one today I think. Really like his colors. Drew recently won a blue ribbon for best Abstract at the Aiken Art Guild juried show. 


Al Beyers’ oil hard to top Al but I think Drew did today. Al is a professor at USC Aiken and currently part of a faculty show at Aiken Center for the Arts. 

Tom Needhams watercolor. Tom teaches watercolor at the Gertrude Herbeet Institute of Art in Augusta. 


Fred’s acrylic. His Mondigliani. Love the orange background. He was just to my left 4 feet. And what a difference that made in the view. 

Interesting how different Ilania looks from different angles. 
Thanks for reading. 
Margaret xxx

Day 712 – so it continues. 

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Not done yet. 


I drew Donna and Ann as they discussed Donnas abstracr. The conversation went on for quite a while giving me plenty of time to draw them. 


Another sketch of Dinna done during lectures. The shadow under her eye got a little dark. 

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 711  and then 

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There were more. 


Sweet Mary our backdoor neighbor and our new bff. 


Donna. She’s much prettier than this sketch of her. 

Once again these were painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. The notes were colored with Winsor Newton watercolor markers, a caran d’ache watercolor pencil and a Daniel Smith watercolor crayon

Thanks for checking by. 
Margaret xxx

Day 641 PCM and the t shirt

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  Really loving this sketch of PonceCity  Market Szechuan Restaurant. Love the dragon. Strathmore 500 watercolor paper carbon platinum black ink in carbon fine tip pen. 

  
   

Repainting the tshirt sketch as promised. Hope to deliver it Tuesday to Rhineharts. 
Letting the ink dry so no smears on it. Ink smears are so annoying and so unpredictable. A kin to letting paint dry!!! 
 I usually don’t use pencil but since it’s a redo of the original sketch which has a split page from the sketchbook it’s a necessity if the restaurant is to have it. 

The sketchbook. 
Thanks for reading. 
Margaret xxx