Flocking to the feeders.

I decided to challenge myself and use the water brush on the watercolor pencil.

It worked MUCH better this way than it did with the pan Watercolors.

You really can get a lot of juicy color out of the watercolor pencils when you wet them. These are

Faber castell durer, derwent, and inktense watercolor pencils

Margaret off for a walk on this cold day. Bad me ordered a Lamy not on amazon. I hear they are divine. We shall see.

I am loving my Lamy al-Star F for quite a while now. Draws and writes so smoothly.

Xoxoxoxo

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How she looks. Is. Has played. Ed to work on it more til I got the big drip.

First forty min. TOOOO small. Didn’t fill the half sheet up.

I spent the day getting red orange all over everything when I opened the palette to see if I needed more paint. I didn’t but that red orange lept out. Allover my top my purse my shoe. Dropped thru a hole in the shoe onto my foot. Even on one of the kitchen chairs.

Second forty min. Did I say I started over?!

And to make Matters perfect after struggling over the foreshortened drawing for the first two sessions I finally had it right only to get an red orange blob in her black hair. Then I got a hideous drip. The wrong way when I turned the painting to fix her hair.

Groan. Maybe I will finish her maybe NOT. Leaning toward the NOT.

Tom Needham Watercolor

Bill Daniels oil on arches oil paper

Coach’s charcoals.

Jermey Sutherland

Al Beyer oil

DrewMurphy acrylic. He was so funny. He said it looked like he had gotten out his crayons and used them. Oopsey.

Margaret xoxoxo annoyed with herself. I guess you can’t catch all the drips.

A twenty minute sketch. 10×14. A lot of drawing for that short period of time.

Pentel brush pen

10×14″ superaquabee sketchbook Charles Reid palette

been busy baking instead of painting today and postings. Oopsey. And enjoying the new sofa with a long nap.

Drawing the back porch squirrels. Might need some more words.

And maybe I liked it better as a sketch?! Especially like the squirrel on the top left. Like the fact that he’s just a few lines drawn quickly but you know he’s a squirrel.

I painted it with this FanFare paint set my friend Mike sent me. The colors are nice and intense with a regular brush. They also moisten easily.

I did try once again to use the water brush but rather stick with a sable or a black velvet.

Just can’t get the hang of squeezing enough water to soften edges w a waterbrush.

I do think this is a handy compact gadget to have in your purse or car to paint with on the spur of the moment. Has everything. 43 juicy rich colors a mixing palette a sponge and the brush.

I will use it again. Thanks Mike!

Margaret off for a walk before it rains Xoxoxox

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So what did I do today on this landmark day I watched some landmark testimony on CBS.

Drawing the talking heads

Update: Tweaked his head tonite. Think he’s finally there. Maybe. I can always mess w a sketch.

Michael Cohen. I kept several views going so I could flip between them

As he turns his head. Got a little blue on the lower face. Oh well. There’s more powe.

Ruth and I thought it would be a piece of cake to draw him. We decided that was a big NOPE.

So hard to draw.

I used 9 watercolor pencils. And mostly I used the Venetian Red a dark fleshy tan color.

Superaquabee sketchbook

OOOOOO the new sofa and chair are here. They are just PERFECT!’ ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍾🍾🍾

Margaret excited to be off to Dr Sketchys. Finally starting back up tonite. Already packed.

What do you bet more drawings tomorrow??

Drawing the Cohen hearings #Cohen #dnc #ink #sketching #dailydrawing #uscongress #politics #judiciary

Got around to painting the last sketch this morning. Now I am off to life modeling in Aiken. Wish Scotty could beam me to Aiken. I would save about ten hours some weeks driving.

The sketch w a Lamy EF in a Stillman and Birn Zeta aka heavier paper.

I used my Charles Reid palette for the sketch. A white uniball gel pen.

Margaret Xoxoxoxo who actually wasn’t woken up by the neighbors dog barking at 4 am today. Hurrah. Xoxoxox

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Andrea done I think. Hot press fluid 140#

She wiggles so much she’s hard to draw and paint so I finally just threw paint on her.

Spent the first hour drawing her. I NEVER do that. I turned her around. I drew all of her. I erased her. Drew an awful face. Eeekk

Finally something decent. The 4h pencil was cutting grooves in the hot press paper. Sigh.

Second break. Cad red light and cad yellow light cerulean burnt sienna hair burnt sienna indanthrene and burnt sienna.

End of session yesterday.

A few minor corrections to be made to her eyebrows. They got lost in the shuffle though I drew them right

Background cobalt teal mineral violet. A big two inch Golden Fleece flat brush.

Margaret off to buy a new den rug. Xoxoxox

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spent far too long coloring her with my watercolor pencils today. I view it as practice to hopefully finish my painting from Mario A Robinson’s class.

the first layer of watercolor pencils. No water yet. Burnt sienna yellow ochre inadanthree blue

the washed out first layer of watercolor pencil.

another layer of colored pencils without washing it out with water

another layer of watercolor pencils. Alizarin on lips.

Burnt sienna and burnt umber ultramarine indanthrene blue yellow ochre and an odd ball blue background.

she really is much darker than this sketch. But once you go too dark you loose the painting.

The finished one at least for now

Here’s the whole page.

Margaret off to dinner with friends.

Xoxoxox

Quick ink sketch of our model Barbette #MarioARobinson Watercolor pencil @marioarobinson @aliapainter #watercolor #art #painting #artist #portrait #aquarelle #northcarolina #raleigh #marioarobinson #watercolor #painter #aquarelle #drawing #sketching nudesketch #portraits