My granddaughter Livia loves to color.

I took a few minutes to draw her with a cretacolor Quattro pencil.

It has four different leads in it. Red blue yellow and green.

A fun pencil to use but sometimes you have to rotate it as you draw to get a dark or light color.

Margaret sneezing thru a fall allergy attack. Xoxoxo but on my way home shortly. #stillmanandbirn #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #lostedges #watercolor #painter #aquarelle #allaprima #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #travel #drawing #sketching #charlesreid

On a Sunday morning she’s usually ticked up next to me on the sofa while I watch CBS Sunday Mornings and Super Soul Sundays.

twisbee pen with dartrementis document brown ink stillman and birn alpha sketchbook. Caran dache neocolonial ii crayons.

But I am in Atlanta and Zoe is home so no warm snuggly puppy.

However I do have some warm snuggly grandchildren to hug on. Always a great option in my book.

The fearless one.

Hugs Margaret still waiting for Oprah who is our Hoprah to knock on my door. Xoxoxoxo

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Novas gestures from Thursday. They were so dramatic. Each one would have made a lovely painting.

They were one minute long. And these are 19×22″ pieces of paper so a lot of territory to cover.

Her head was usually with chin up her hands outspread.

The fetal position last one of the day. And actually my fav. Can’t wait to take these home and spray them or use a large brush to activate the 6b water soluble led. Should be fun.

The last sketch reminds me of this one my Friend Ruth Pearl did last summer of a zaftig model.

Strathmore Bristol smooth and one stray piece of hot press fluid 140#. Probably paint on the back of it.

Margaret baking cookies with her grandkids after a trip to the Puppetry Center for the Arts to see Sister Fox and Brother Coyote. Great show just opened done in Japanese style Puppetry.

Hugs time to cut those cookies out. Well in between our. Once watching Charley Brown shows on amazon. They LOVE Charley Brown but who doesn’t.

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Frank Head Rogue William Macy nails it.

Binging shameless while I am in Atlanta during the grandkids naps and after they go to bed because I am not paying for Showtime.

Drawing the Rogues gallery of Gallaghers as U watch so I don’t feel too guiltywhile I laugh at their antics. Hmm what’s with the neck of Carl aka rogue understudy?!!. Sweet Fiona mother to the world.

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Margaret xoxoxox off to find something to paint. Xoxoxox

Zaftig 140 lb HP Fluid 22×30″

Loved our model today. And am sad I didn’t get her name. She was fabulous. Just had a great glow of joy about her. I have never painted in 140 # hot press before so this was totally experimental.

Her gesture poses were phenomenal but that’s for tomorrow.

I tried doing a grisaille later but since it was the first time I wasn’t too sure of how to go about it on darker skin. I would use the same colors that I would end up painting her-peacock blue, burnt sienna, burnt umber, raw umber, cobalt and ultramarine.

The only other color I used was Holbein red orange.

Margaret soaked from the Atlanta monsoon cooking a large pig of chili and some corn bread for dinner. Yum yum Xoxoxox

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Everybody’s favorite place to eat in Aiken. A good spot to celebrate life’s occasions like winning a ribbon at state art Show. I dragged my friend Tom along after Saturday life modeling while we were in Aiken. Then I drew him while we waited for food. The food is always good and the service is top notch.

Colored with Caran d’ache Neocolor ii in my stillman and birn alpha. This is actually about 10x 20″

Margaret who has passed out candy to thousands in Decatur ga. Xoxoxo

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Grisaille means a first layer of the shadows.

Then you add the flesh tones last. Usually done with oils.

I like the effect it gave. That aid needs a dark background.

First layer was done with cerulean burnt sienna and darkest darks burnt umber and or ultramarine.

Skin tone cad red light and cad yellow light. Sometimes more cad red than anything else. Think I will try it on hot press next.

At the end. He didn’t like it but I think it’s very interesting and unique. And no doubt he got the drawing right which is really the thing we all aim for.

The iPhone didn’t do it justice turning the darks really dark and the flesh colors which were gorgeous also got muddy. They really weren’t like this but a really lovely soft peachy pink.

Amy Lochard Ness. Oil. Love it. Once again it went dark with the iPhone.

Bill Daniels. Wow what else can I say oil on panel.

Rich Klein oil!!

And that’s a wrap folks.

Margaret worn out from a busy day of baking. Xoxoxox

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Waiting. Hit Press Fabriano 300 lb.

Important stuff adding darks. I need to dig out the painting of this without all the darks I just added to her my daughter in love Lee Anne about four months pregnant with my delightful granddaughter Livie. I added darks all over.

Added some card red light and burnt sienna ultramarine cerulean mineral violet. Amazed at how the salt shaker looks almost photographic on this hot press. Just adding cerulean and mineral violet to the background around the salt. 😳

Added lots of darks to this one in the flowers. Though I will say it’s not as dark as this.

Really wasn’t happy with this one.

But now I am. The bouquet was too tight. I added make believe flowers. Now i like it alot!! added the red flowers and some white fluffy ones on the sides. A few leaves on top. Big difference now isnt it?!

Background tooo light.

Not any more. Added more purple and cobalt. Lotsa splatted.

Now you can see the sunflowers.

This one I fear will remain a tight mess.

Hmm maybe I should add some red flower to it too. Why not. Maybe I will like it better right. Worked on the other one.

Keep spreading the reds and the mineral Violet. I will say it Lois better in person. The reds look opaque in the photo and they aren’t. Oh well. Somebody tell me how to get accurate pics with the iPhone please. It used to be so great. Not anymore.

I will say the red flowers got tooo big. Ah well life as an artist. 🤣

And this one. Added the orange and burnt sienna to the yellow flowers which were just blobs of yellow. Aka boring. Oh and mineral violet and alizarin and ultramarine purples here and there.

And that’s it so far. Course the suns still up. More painting?! We shall see.

Hugs Margaret xoxoxo who should go walk my sweet puppy.

Our model was Jessie. 19×24″ Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper. Really like the way this one turned out. May or may not add background.

First break forty minutes. Started with a wash of quin gold.

Second break. Layers of burnt sienna, raw umber and hematite burnt scarlet. Darks of ultramarine and burnt sienna.

Added some cad yellow deep. And more of the other colors. I think she’s done. We will see.

Al Beyer’s small gorgeous oil. And he used red. Al never uses red.

Eve charcoal and white pastel on canson paper.

Jeremy Sutherland red Prisma pencil. One of the verithin brand

Tom Needham’s Watercolor still needs the burnt sienna and he’s going to try the hematite burnt scarlet I gave him a puddle of.

Coach knocked out two great charcoals.

Dawns going to use this as a grise layer and some burnt umber when she gets home. She didn’t bring any Browns. Oops.

Fred LOVE it.

Tyrone pencil

Bill Daniels oil on metal panel

And that’s a wrap. Hugs. Margaret off to watch Foyles War. Xoxoxox

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