The SC State capitol with the crowds on Main Street in downtown Columbia nicknamed Cola which is why this every Saturday event is called Soda City.

Super fun event. All kinds of vendors. Requirement all things must be made in SC. Huge crowds. 7000 or so every week year round.

Who knew this went on. Wish it was here in Augusta.

I think this is an old Greyhound station. Will look great painted.

Going to have to go back with my camera and take better pics.

Margaret off to Earthfare with her tagalong Zoe

Drawing the stage capitol #urbansketching #ink #lamyjoy #stillmanandbirn #columbia #sc #southcatolina #mainst #drawing #sketching #streetfestival #downtown #Sketchbookskool #sodacity

A great restaurant I ate at on Gervais in Columbia. For a sketch that went down the tubes when I added one too many people it looks pretty good.

Amazing shrimp and grits plus an old fashioned. Super waitress. Yummm. Deliciousness.

Took some great pictures at a street festival on Main Street today. Drew three urban

sketches.

Drew this guy.

Maybe a future painting?!

Or this Boykin spaniel who would rather be playing than in the middle of Columbia.

Or maybe this great truck loaded with flowers?! I was looking for Mast General store to buy rocks for my grandkids.

What a face. Too cute. I ended my downtown tour buying five boxes of Girl Scout cookies. My mother was right. Soooo dangerous.

Margaret tucked in for the night. Xoxoxox

Drawing the stage capitol #urbansketching #ink #lamyjoy #stillmanandbirn #columbia #sc #southcatolina #mainst #drawing #sketching #streetfestival #downtown Sketchbookskool

Or is it west on McPherson?! 🤔Out the window at my sons house. Happy Friday! Do you see the cardinal now?!! He really was in that tree.

You know sometimes it looks better in pen to me.

Watercolor pencils

Lamy Joy

Noodlers Eelskin ink

Stillman and birn Alpha.

Glad to report that the Jay Jefferies picture is raising plenty of dinero for our groups charity. Hurrah. He already has it hung on his wall.

This is a note he sent this morning.

Thank you for letting me be a part of this great event.  I had a lot of fun and it’s all for a good cause.  My picture is already hanging up and i’m enjoying it very much.  If you need me in the future let me know and I will be there.  Thanks again,  Now i have to go and get opening bids for the next item for sale.

Margaret off to shower the pollen off. Do you have yellow pollen clouds like we do?! Xoxoxox

Up McPherson out the window. Will eventually paint this. #Lamyjoy #ink #outmywindow #watercolor #drawing #sketchbookskool #cardinals #naturalworld #eastatlanta #atlanta #mixedmedia #art #artist #stillmanandbirn #sketching #drawing

Just before I tossed them in the mailbox. Off they fly.

Seems as if I am drawing a lot of birds lately. This is a 300# cp kilamanjaro postcard. One of the freebies we get at Cheap Joes classes in Boone.

Based on a wren photo I took out Mikes back window when I was in Raleigh.

Number two. Actually like this one better. I did a terrible ink sketch first and kept correcting it. Not getting better but decided to see how the wc pencils would work to cover the ink. Now my fav. Funny how things change.

Gel pen and white inktense pencil. Thought about digging out gouache but being lazy.

Drawn and colored mostly with watercolor pencils.

Off to life modeling in Aiken dropping this in the mail on the way.

Margaret Xoxoxox worn out from running the roads.

The daily drawing #wren #nature #watercolor #animals #birds #drawing #sketchbookskool #cheapjoes #savannahriver #augusta #mixedmedia #art #artist #wildlife #kilimanjaro #sketching

How I left her at two hours. Still a lot to do like the drapery. Her eyes. A background of some kind.

A grisaille layer. Two hours not enough time but it is a start.

The sketch which I probably spent too long on.

Looking at her think I will shorten that left big toe. Looks HUGE. But will be easy to paint out.

Twenty minute pose. I actually like this one better but it could use a little more work.

Kate can hold a pose like a Champ and never move. They are always interesting.

six two minute gesture poses. they got better as u went along. they got better.

Charles Reid wc palette hp Fluid paper.

Margaret home from the races we call Atlanta Xoxoxox

The elegant Kate Marie 15×22” hot press fluid #fluid #atlantaartistcenter #watercolor #art #painting #artist #portrait #aquarelle #georgia #atlanta #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #drawing #sketching #lifemodel #nudesketch #portrait #portraitpainting #portraits #portraitart

Drawing the tulips on the kitchen island. I do love tulips. Also loving the way the stillman and birn is laying flat as a flitter. Hmm wonder what a flitter is. Guess I will google that.

Watercolor sooner or later in my coloring book.

Lamy Joy Eelskin Black Ink stillman and birn Zeta.

Margaret still in Atlanta who should get out and find something interesting to draw on this gorgeous day. Xoxoxox

More playing with my Lamy Joy. Watercolor sooner or later. #Lamyjoy #ink #outmywindow #watercolor #drawing #sketchbookskool #cardinals #naturalworld #eastatlanta #atlanta #mixedmedia #art #artist #stillmanandbirn #sketching #drawing

I wonder what i used to listen to before podcasts? I know audible.

Listened to some great ones from sketchbookskool called Art for All this is one. Sketchbookskool aka Danny Gregory and his Everydaymatters yahoo list is what started me trying to sketch everyday back in 2006.

Zoo Atlanta

This is another good one with Roz Stendhal. Her blog is always interesting. Roz likes a good project. So do I. Thinking about stealing a couple of hers. A month of painting birds Everyday😱.

That will be easy since I seem to draw birds a lot lately. and I seem to draw them wherever I go.

Another one is writing letters everyday. Hmm. Well maybe when I get home?!

The other project I am going to do is #OneWeek100People2019 but that’s not till April 8th. First I will have to remember it. Lol. It’s a yearly project like Inktober run by Suhita Shirodikar and Marc Tao Holmes. I did it two years ago and it didn’t take long to sketch up 100 people. I drew a few talking heads from tv and I say at Panera during lunch one day and got a lot of victims.

Do you have any projects coming up?!

Margaret off to a soccer game Xoxoxox

Sassy Key West rooster #urbansketching #chicken #rooster #ink #nature #watercolor #animals #birds #drawing #sketchbookskool #naturalworld #savannah #keywest #augusta #mixedmedia #art #artist #wildlife #stillmanandbirn #sketching #drawing