Looking Down -second place professional- Works on canvas- a ribbon and a NICE check.

This painting is 3×4′ acrylic and based on a picture I took from the second floor looking down at the first floor at Ponce City market in Atlanta.

Exciting that it won. There were 624 entries and only about 30 winners.

The minimum prize Certificate of Merit got a $200 check.

Prize money for the art at the fair was almost $25000 in total. Wow.

More than a half million people will come to the State fair to see the art, the exhibits, the huge sandcastles, watch the dogs herd sheep, the pig races, ride the camel,and of course to eat corn dogs and maybe ride a ride. Got to have some fair food!!

A few more random paintings. Will take better pics of the winners when I go back in a few weeks and have more time.

Always like drippy weird paintings.

Off I go Margaret xoxoxo who needs a nap today before heading to the Aiken art guild meeting tonight

Another Winner “Looking Down” at the SC State Fair Art Show. LOTS of prize money and huge crowds. #southcarolina #cityart #acrylic #lechat #poncecitymarket #dancing #augusta #columbia #atlanta #scws #allaprima #impasto #scstatefair #fairs #statefairs

Best of Show

Got my SCWS signature status Which evidently is a big deal and my painting was in the top ten plus a check at the SC watermedia Show At City Art in Columbia.

SCWS doesn’t rank paintings except for Best of Show and first or was it second which are included in the top ten. Strange but I will take it.

At worst mine was tenth. ☺️

Now to drive back manana for the state fair awards and see what I won and which one won. Eeek. What a weekend. a Few random pics of the show. It was huge. Sixty two paintings juried into the show. 185 entries from all over the country. More tomorrow from the 41st Annual National SCWS show in Columbia.

Bon Nuit xoxoxox Margaret.

I won at the state fair. Just got notice🤗👍🏻 so Saturday an award at the Sc watercolor show and one Sunday at the fair. That ones $200. Hurrah.

Winner possibility #1 Thinking this is the winner BUT ya never know.

No idea what I won at the SC Watermedia Show tomorrow. Or which painting won at the SC state fair art show which is a big deal. That awards reception is Sunday.

Option number 2!

Don’t ask me why but it is. Thousands of paintings and photographs are entered into two categories

Professional and amateur. I entered professional.

So now I have to go to Columbia on sat and sun to find out what I won which one won and to collect my prize $$$$. Lol.

Driving back to Augusta at night so I can sleep in my own bed. 😴😴😴

Margaret the yo yo who always drives back to Augusta. Xoxoxoxo.

THE WINNER – is?!! No Idea!! #southcarolina #cityart #acrylic #lechat #lechatnoir #dancing #burlesque #augusta #columbia #atlanta #scws #allaprima #impasto #scstatefair #scwatermedia #acrylic #painting #winner #poncecity #Atlanta #georgia

Reading excerpts from The War Of Art. We are our own worst enemies aren’t we?!

Also looking forward to a sketching trip in Key West next month. Found this strip accordion fold watercolor of Higgs Beach in KW when I was cleaning up books yesterday. It’s probably forty inches long.

I also have one of the KW Post office chickens somewhere around here.

I just sit in a spot and draw people when they drift by.

Adding the palm tree and the sea in the background.

Sometimes the people turn out great.

Sometimes they are a train wreck like the guy on the right. But they are always great fun to do.

Long and short of these is that they are great people drawing practice. People love them because so colorful.

Did I say I have a few more ready to go?! Think I will stick one in my purse and give a couple to friends. The grey ones are full sheets of canson mi-teintes paper.

Drawn on 40″ Stonehenge print paper ripped into long strips and accordion folded. Stonehenge paper is lovely thick paper that loves watercolor. It’s only fault is cracking along the folds. Makes great sketchbooks too. Thanks

Added a bit of mineral violet and cobalt the background of this painting.

Margaret off to Costco for six itty bitty book lights for Saturday drawing. If you get in the wrong corner during lifemodeling there is NO light at all.

Xoxoxo

Key West fun-drawing Higgs Beach #keywest #higgsbeach #florida #keys #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #watercolor #evans #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #travelblogger #sketching #charlesreid

Spent way too long on this sketch of Ilania. Partly NOT my fault since her cushion moved around and I had to redraw ALOT after break because she would shift and I wouldn’t have finished the whole appendage aka like a hand or a foot. Eeek. So I would redraw and redraw. Never got around to painting.

Drew Murphy who started off painting.

Marilyn Hartley’s great charcoal.

Bill Daniels oil on panel.

Dawn whose really growing as a portrait painter.

And my friend sweet wise Alexis did an awesome job on her charcoal pastel. Did she do a Lautrec or a Degas worthy sketch today. Go Alexis.

Margaret still worn out from her flying trip to Sautee Nacochee yesterday.

Ilainia @ilainavanpelt details @ http://www.margaretmccarthyhunt.com #strathmore #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #lostedges #allaprima #aiken #augusta #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #Sketching #charlesreid #nude #aiken

Three minute gesture drawings. I painted the watercolor ones when I was listening to the Kavanaugh hearings. some Are Good some Are not. Kate is so slim that it’s easy to make her too long and thin. W

drawn with my 2B Derwent sketch pencil in my superaquabee.

Old Sautee Store

Today I had to drive to Sautee Nacoochee to drop off a painting for the Georgia Watercolor show.

Inside the old store.

The pretty little Presbyterian Church across the street.

An old barn. I had been going to spend the afternoon there and then drive home again. There was little else to see in the crossroads escort the Sautee Nacochee Center and the Folk Pottery Museum.

I did find the pottery exhibit interesting because I have one of Lanier Meaders facejugs.

Probably the only thing I own that the kids will fight over when I am gone.

Mine looks a lot like this one. We dress him up with sunglasses and baseball hats.

When commercial pottery started making a dent in their pottery business the potters of north Georgia started producing more facejugs.

A few more of them. The different potters of course make different styles of facejugs. They did it all from digging and processing the clay to building the kilns the pots were fired in.

Margaret who is putting her feet up after driving for six hours today. Xoxoxoxo

Kate Marie Cofsky awesome model @katemariecofsky. #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #atlantaartistcenter #lostedges #allaprima #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #travel #lifemodel #charlesreid

Worked on this for a while today. Added more background. More darks in the bouquet and on the pears. Time to eat the pears. More work required on the slay and pepper or maybe cobalt blue in the background to make them show up?!

Added the mineral purple and cobalt blue to the background of this sketch of Emily. Trying to decide if her feet are too small. Maybe legs too long. Sigh. Sooner or later I will decide. Or maybe turn em into mulch.

Also finishing this sock up.

Nap time. Margaret xoxoxo

Emily 19″x24″ Strathmore Bristol need to soften the edge of her hair.

The sketch

Second break a little leggy

Drew Murphy second break. He can cover a lot of territory fast. 2×3 FEET

Amy Lockhart Ness Watercolor

Eva’s charcoal she’s an electrician!!

Bill Daniels oil

zany Fred’s large acrylic.

Al Beyer’s small oil

Tom Needhams lovely small watercolor

Margaret putting her feet up and grabbing a remote control. Xoxoxox

Emily #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #southcarolina #aiken #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #holbein #drawing #sketching #lifemodel