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
Sarah 24×30″ Acrylic alla prima.
Her last modeling session before she moves to Los Angelos this week. We will miss her. She had such a sweet pensive look today. Maybe she was thinking about her big move. LA is a long way from Augusta Ga.
The painting. Was done in an hour or so. I liked it when I left. Now I am not so sure but that’s life isn’t it?! Took a while and several restarts to decide how to paint her but after that it was easy. I turned the panel one way and then the other. Finally painted her vertically.
She was in such a nice position with her legs extend I wished I had a big square to paint her on but oh well only a rectangle.
Colors used titanium white pyrrole red and nickel azo gold for skin. Highlights are primary yellow mixed with the skin color. Shadows are Winsor purple added to the same mix.
I used some thalo blue and that’s all the colors.
Here she is at first break. Forty minutes. 
Last session I drew this large ink drawing of Sarah on a piece of mat board. It’s Sarah’s goodby present. Took about 15 minutes.
Oops I forgot her hand and left leg. Oh well.
Drawn with my Pentel brush pen and I bled the ink with a wet Winsor Newton flat fake mongoose brush for shading.
It was a big crowd today. 
People were even sitting on the floor. Oh it’s good to be young. They were rewarded with Happy buttons for their floor positions. 
Al Beyer’s beautiful very large oil 3×4′. A great expression. 
Jeremy’s beautiful conte crayon sketch. 
Kathe’s wispy sketch. Love the wispiness of it. Conte crayon.
Here it is before the background.
Tom Needham’s beautiful watercolor. Background is Daniel Smith Quin coral. 
Marilyn Hartley’s lovely pencil charcoal and ink sketch. Wispy was in today. She really did a great face on this one. Looks just like Sarah.
Another of Kathe Dennis’ lovely sketches charcoal this time.
AC Daniels great oil though for some reason he later wiped out her leg.
Coachs charcoal. Always a great job. And interesting.
Rachel’s branching out. Pastel on arches.
Fred still in his Mondigliani mood. 
Dawns sweet face of Sarah.
Last but not least our lovely Iliana’s painting. Great colors. Wonderful face.
And that’s it for today. There were More that got away without a photo.
Ttyl
Margaret ready for a longggg nap. Xoxoxo who sold TEN paintings last nite. Hurrah!!! And the show has a month to go!!!
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
Went sketching downtown with my sweet friend AC Daniel. We ended up at the Soy Noodle house eating. Gotta keep your strength up. So far this is my fav sketch done that day. It looks terrible after I painted it but turned it into a journal page with the lettering.
Stillman and Birn Zeta Pentel Brush Pen and Lamy EF. My whisky painter travel palette and waterbrushes.
Wish I had taken a photo of it before the lettering. The brown was just dullllll.
Pleased to announce Augusta is having its first Urban Sketchers meeting. Hopefully Sunday February 12 at Earthfare Meeting Room at 1 pm. Click on the link to join our facebook page, to keep up to date, and to see our art!!! Lots of sketching will be going on.
Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo who had to work on her sketchbookskool homework.
I drew this during art history lecture last Wednesday. Not meant to look like him exactly just the essence and to take notes on the lecture about how to compose a painting and be sure you get all the parts in perspective. When people are added the heads have to line up on your sight line or they will appear to float. 
Check out John Salimen, another great art teacher. He’s a master at composing from photos with many national and international art awards. His new coffee table book is just gorgeous.
His DVD on urban landscapes explains how to compose a picture from several photos.
Painted with my tiny whiskey painter palette loaded with Windsor newton travel Paullette colors. Refilled with Daniel Smith using the same colors plus DS quin coral.
A bientot Happy Mondayoff to class I go.
Margaret xoxox
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
A gesture sketch is done looking at a person usually but I got annoyed with the way mine are going and decided to draw the dogs with gestures.
I think I drew these Tuesday and they were great practice for Dr Sketchys. Here are the rest of them. I really want to draw dancers this way. 
Esmeralda is the top left. Quasimodo, Frollo, and Esmeralda bottom right and left.
These were all drawn while I was watching Notre Dame de Paris on YouTube. A lot of dramatic gestures good for drawing.
So how do you draw a gesture sketch!? I used a brush pen on these. No drag! It lets you draw quickly. Gesture sketches are quick – a few lines to capture the gesture. 
Why practice gesture sketches so you can mail sketches at Dr Sketchys or when you are out and about drawing people on the go. It really does help. 
Here’s a pile of them.
The first one I did. Eekkk.
Dancers well NO. But they were suppose to be.
More dancers. Not the greatest but better.
And a few more dancers. I like these better today than when I drew them. The feet kept disappearing when I froze tyhe video to draw the dancers or they zipped off into artistic shadows. Visually great to look at but makes drawing HARD!!
Go try it. A lot of fun.
Margaret already in her flannel jammies for this cold winter weather. Well cold by Georgia standards. 52!! 😱
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
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