Painted with my new cute toy a portable painters palette. The two water wells come off and the palette goes inside to seal it up when u are traveling.

You can also put it across your thigh when painting out in the field. As I said fun toy. Loaded with Charles Reid colors and quin gold.

Lamy pen in my stillman and birn.

Margaret whose off to the bank. Xoxoxo

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While I was in Atlanta I read about Suhita s saying she was going to draw 100 hands. She even has links to hand drawing resources.

I got to 8-9. Guess it’s time to draw some more hands. BUT the reason I post this is just drawing. Those few hands really helped with drawing the models hands over the last week or so.

Hmm maybe I only drew seven hands but as I said it helped. I drew Matt’s hands fairly effortlessly on Monday. Ditto Ilania on Saturday and Mona yesterday. A flurry of Peppers hands at Dr Sketchys. Mona’s hand.

So many hands to draw. And they require practice practice. Think I will do some Moh!

Ps most

Hands are painted with cad Ted light and cad yw light or French yellow ochre.

Margaret who might draw her feet tonite.

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When I heard that the incredible Mona Reeves was modeling I decided to go for the day. And I am glad that did. Much left to do on both of them.

Definitely getting a background. Leaning toward the main background color of either sap green or maybe a purple. And doing something like this Klimt but with African symbols. Or maybe they are Indonesian since what we think of as African fabric is made in Indonesian originally by those enterprising Dutch of the Dutch East India Trading Company.

I drew this one first but didn’t get nearly done with the painting.

But I had that Klimt stuck in my head all weekend so I drew just a 3/4 head too. Probably will use some Caran dache Neocolor ii on it also.

This was how the head looked when I left Atlanta. I studied it in the car off and on while driving home. Amazing what a glance or two can bring out errors.

The pencil lines show where I needed to add to her face and her neck. Why did I make her neck so thin. And I did it to both paintings.

Thank goodness corrections are easy on Fluid paper. When all else fails you can always add sloppy dots to a portrait. Always improves ones with problems.

Margaret who left at 6:30 am and got home at 6 pm so I am Tahred. Xoxoxo

Mona our goddess of a model today Three hours in and more to do. 16×22” fluid watercolor paper. #watercolor #art #painting #artist #painter #aquarelle #atlanta #atlantaartistcenter #lostedges #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #allaprima #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #travel #travelblogger #holbein #mgraham #danielsmithwatercolors #drawing #sketching #lifemodel

Chattanooga is famous for its choo as in the song. It’s almost famous for the great train race during the civil war from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Or was it Kennesaw? Just north of Atlanta.

A quick last sketch in Chattanooga standing in Niedloves parking lot. That little bubble above the sketch is the real choo Choo sign above the old station. I would have been closer to it when we ate at the station the day before but we had to get to lifemodeling.

The choo choo.

In the station. What great windows. To think they tore ours down in Augusta to build a boring block shaped post office. Sigh. And we wonder what’s wrong with Augusta?!

Margaret who made four dozen meringue cookies today. Zero calories become of using Swerve sweetener. Yum yum. Xoxoxox

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Finally a colored sketch!! Caran dache neocolor ii I’m super aquabee paper. Twenty minute sketch.

Here’s the pencil sketch.

I took another picture of the bride. Think she just pales in comparison. It was a ten minute sketch I think.

And I gave the umbrella sketch away without so much as a picture. Darn.

Best fun at Sketchys in a while.

Time to eat the quiche I made. Yum yum. Fresh steamed broccoli too.

Ttyl Margaret having a lazy Sunday xoxoxox maybe I should draw the quiche!? Pepper The almost bride Dr Sketchys at Chat Noir! More at https://margaretmccarthyhunt.com #drsketchys #augusta #pentelpen #watercolor #ink #chatnoir #burlesque #inkdrawing #art #sketching #lifemodel #nude #charlesreid #allaprima #dailydrawing

And were we happy to be there??! YES! We thought we would not be drawing again together ever again. But Fred offfered is a large empty room at his office and we all crammed in. Lucky we are fond of each other isn’t it?!! And we upgraded to a kitchen. 🤗👍🏻16×20 Ilania. I quit at first break because I was afraid I would mess it up. The light was not great. As Tom said all I could see was the tones not the colors.

Number 2 Caran d’arches Neocolor ii second break. Also 16×20″

Do not like the heavy dark lines on this one. I probably can lighten them up but not sure I want to bother. Just turn it over and draw on the other side.

Jeremy Sutherland’s large gorgeous head sketch. Incredible skills. Go buy it from him!!

Thomas Needham‘s lovely watercolor. Also soon to be die sale on his website.

Fred did a zany painting despite sciatica problems and hosting us.

Amy Lockhard-Ness’s lovely oil. About 18″ square.

A couple of the kids sketches. Sorry there weren’t more photos. So crowded it was hard to get a pic of anything.

So many people showed up Al didn’t have space to draw even though drew left early.

Hugs Margaret contemplating how to fix the second sketch and trying to resist a handful of chocolate chips left over from yesterday’s cookie baking for this morning. They gobbled them down.

Xoxoxox

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The thing about Sketchys is you never know what the model will dream up doing. Pepper told us a brides sad tale. A flash back from the trailer trash reality?! I dunno.

The bride. Ten minutes. Still haven’t brought the book upstairs for a better pic. All those rollers in her hair during her trailer trash phase made her hair lovely and curly.

The bride gets some news. I actually painted the background color first and then drew over it. An experiment.

The bride weeps. It’s OvER!! He’s dumped her.

Stuffing her feelings. She had wads of chocolate cake in her mouth and left hand.

Contest change her to make her funny. I think that was the contest. I changed the cake to a Big Mac and painted her hair orange. Wonder who she is?!!

Recovery this one actually got colored. Must never have taken a photo of it.

Pepper and her new best friend the otter because “He’s Otterly ridiculous”. Pepper is nuts about otters.

And oops I forgot to take a picture of the last one. I painted a great umbrella. Hmmm oh well. Sorry. How many sketches was that in two and a half hours??!

11 or so. No wonder we are Tahred when we leave.

Hugs. Back to the British baking show. Xoxoxox Margaret

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Obviously not done. I took my time on drawing his face and there was soooo much to paint. Skin is cad red and cad yellow pale though I think I should have used yellow ochre instead. I did on his hands and liked it better there. Cerulean burnt sienna shadows.

So this is NOT done. The plaid took forever and ever to paint. It was as if everything about painting Gord was complicated. Plaid is alizarin and cad red light ultramarine and cobalt with raw umber and cerulean shadows. Same for the vest.

Gord works as an extra on movies filming in the Atlanta area as well as a model. Evidently he’s posed several times at the Portrait Association of America when it meets in Atlanta.

This is actually not the final drawing. I redrew his eyes lower down. I think I moved his eyebrows down too.

Still lots to do like a background and hmmm. What to do about those jeans?! Wipe them off and just make a vest orrrr. Sigh. Sooner or later I will think of what to do. Right now long naps on the sofa before Dr Sketchys tonite.

Been staring at this between naps. Really like it a lot.

Ps book club was fun. Leftovers for lunch today. Yum yum. Go read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society. A great book!

Hugs Margaret xoxoxox

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