Been working on her.
Small changes. More darks around her face changing the eyes. Everything is slightly off.
Shadow under lip. Think the left eye is still to high. Sigh.
Here she is now. Better but… I also took about an inch or so off her right shoulder. Still too wide but better.
Margaret back to being enthralled with the corona virus news. 😳😳😳 Hang on tight and don’t go taking a plane trip. Xoxoxo
Our model once again was Azelia. 
The drawing
Second break?!
Once again I started with an allover layer of quin gold to give her a nice glow. Then I added burnt sienna alizarin Andrews turquoise mineral violet. You know the drill don’t you?!!
Laying in the hair and the yes with ultramarine and burnt umber. Eye shadows mineral violet and turquoise with a bit of burnt sienna. Lips alizarin mineral violet.
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Background still needs work. Eeek. And can’t decide quite what to do to her eyes. Maybe darker eyebrows might help. And then who knows.
Al Beyer oil
Al Beyer paints. Oil!!
Bill Daniels. Love his take on her. Maybe a candidate for the witch in wicked?!!
Fred doing his Mondigiliani thing. Acrylic on cardboard. He got a lot of ribbing for his cardboard. As if the driver of five different very nice cars including a Lexus and a fancy Cadillac 2 door can not afford some new Masonite.
Joya. Oil on canvas. Always interesting to see everyone’s take on the model. So different.
Last Drew Murphy.
Margaret staring at Alezia and making a fix list. Xoxoxo
The easy way. The bar behind her was lifted by tapping it off and lifting with a swipe of a Mr Clean. The blue grey background was perfect for leaving a steel colored bar.
Oh and I added a bit of ultramarine and burnt umber along the bottom edge of her foreword leg.
Tossing her in the done pile.
Before
Margaret wondering how fast the wind is blowing on this cold blustery day.
Edited with Waterlogue
Our model was late so Joya nimbly volunteered to model for our gesture sketch session. 
The one minute poses. We tried to get her to pole dance but she said NOPE!!
More 1 min poses. She really did some interesting poses.
Three minute poses. We all loved drawing someone with clothes on. Especially the folds and wrinkles in them.
Five minute. I gave my sheaf of drawings to our model Joya. She quipped if I had known you were going to do that I would have given you( aka me) real paper(aka not newsprint).
Charcoal pencil.
Another one dumped into Waterlogue. Such athleticism!! The best she could do in the pole dancing category. 🤗
Margaret giggling at Young Sheldon. Xoxoxo
will keep us from gathering at USC Aiken to paint. The weather predicted today was terrible (tornadoes and torrential rain) but we soldiered on.
First break. An all over wash of quin gold some burnt sienna alizarin a touch of mineral violet.
Coming along more of the same colors.
When I left Aiken
Now. I keep losing the edge across her arm and thigh where the drippy background meets the body but really liking the background. I can lift the burnt umber off the skin.
I also lifted her shoulder about 1/2″ to make her body more in proportion with her head which is a touch too big.
Added some more darks to her face especially around the eyes and the chin.
Really like the background which is a combo of all the colors used plus cobalt. Nice swirly look made mostly by splattering wet on wet.
Will post her again after I lift the spillover on her body. Have to let it dry first.
Highlights mostly lifted out now.
My favorite bit. Andrews turquoise and yellow ochre stripes. Or was it burnt sienna
Margaret watching the Super Tuesday returns. Xoxoxo
Did I say exhausting?
Nothing like a sixty mile drive to paint and hanging out with friends to make you Tahred. 🤣But I managed to nap after the tenth correction after I got home anyway.
I thought the pose would kill me drawing it. Arms and legs going every which way. And that hand and foreshortened arm on the right. Eeekk.
I drew that arm and hand over and over again til I finally figured out you can’t see her forearm duh.
But maybe this is how she looked when I left?! Her face was squinchy but like the body.
And what about that neck. Groan.
The things you don’t notice in an hour or so of painting.
So here she is now. As Mike pointed out her eyes were NOT right. Too close together. So I fixed that. I also lightened her chin and widened her weird neck that I had given her.
Added a few shadows and called it quits. Well till I decide more Ilaina torture after I stare at it for a while.
Margaret going back to her nap. Xoxoxox
And time to draw at Al’s salon!
Ilaina a work in progress and what a pain to draw accurately. 
Our poor girl was overly Tahred from working hard on a house she’s flipping so she has a good nap. As she fell asleep her head turned downward slowly. Oops.
Second break. The blanket is really grey but will probably go back and turn the background greyer since I rather like the blanket.
Coach Larry’s
Lots of foreshortened views today.
Eves
Drew Murphy’s
Catherine’s
Fred’s. Rather like this a lot. So abstract. Told him he needs to finish his and people would by them. My friend Alexis agrees with me.
Margaret who’s unreasonably tired.
xoxoxo
I posted.
Found these sweet clementines in my sons kitchen this am. Far too cute to eat attached to the leaves and each other.
If my bag of painted weren’t out in the car on a very rainy day in Atlanta I would paint these. Maybe tomorrow?!
I think I like it better with the lettering than without. What do you think ?!
Drawn with a uniball micropen in a handprint journal. High time I fill this book up and be on to the next one.
Margaret in rainy drippy squally Atlanta not looking forward to the drive home in the same weather. Also ruined all my plans for arts stores and other Atlanta fun. Time to replace my old ancient beloved London fog which is no longer waterprood.
Emily 15×22″ cold press Fluid paper 
Sketch
At forty minutes in
Second break
And when I quit today.
Used my Charles Reid palette colors.
Dr Bill who was too my right.
Dr Fred who was sitting in front of Dr Bill
Coach Larry who was behind me.
Drew who was to my left
Al Beyer who does a great back!
That’s a wrap. Off to another movie
Xoxoxox Margaret
Have three paintings I am finishing up to enter in the splash competition. If I don’t enter I won’t get in will I?!
Been working on Gypsy today.
Here she is now. Can u tell the difference?! Got to take a better picture on a sunny day when the colors are not so dark. Stupid smart phone thinks it knows best but it doesn’t.
Just little things like more detail on the beads. More sloppy dots as we call them.
Added some white gouache on highlights like around her glasses and in her earrings. 
Before. Also darkened her moth a little. Small drips and drabs.
About those dots. Try to never make two the same shape or in a line aka systematic. It’s so easy to just put the dots all in a line without even realizing it. And change colors. I don’t do that enough.
Onward to Henry and a commission.
Cold press Fluid watercolor paper. Fealing Lin palette colors
Margaret whose trying to decide if she wants watch season 3 of Anne with an E or not.
Ps listened to an interesting book for book club while I painted. A Well Behaved Woman about the Vanderbilts. Interesting. Xoxoxox
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