Every month the Atlanta Artist Center in the heart of Buckhead has a new juried/judged show.

The front part of the old house now gallery / classroom is a wonderful gallery space.

A few blocks off both Peachtree and Piedmont it’s a great place to take a forgive modeling class or just work on your own artwork with a group of like minded people. Every week day morning there’s a different art group that meets so if you are in Atlanta call the Atlanta Artist Center and find out what’s going on.

Here are some of my favorites from this months show Power Lines.

Tigris one made me giggle. Zoe would never stay in a stroller. She would have to check out her surroundings.

I do have to say I LOVED the Bulldog. It reminded me of Zoe a terrier standing it’s ground. Feisty dog.

Tomorrow Charles Reid!! Yeah.

Hugs Margaret who had to load up the car now xoxoxox

Figure modeling at Atlanta Artist Center #atlanta #figuremode #atlantaartistcenter #watercolor #aquarelle #drawing #dailydrawing #cansonwaterboard #denise #mgraham #danielsmith #holbien

While I am in Savannah. she’s staying with my son and daughter in law while I am taking my last Charles Reid class in Savannah.

Moleskine TWISBI document brown ink

I also drew another sketch of Grant while he was lollying on the sofa yesterday.

Lamys, stillman and birn, Noodler eelskin ink

Time to load the car and head out soon.

Hugs Margaret off on an adventure. Xoxoxo

Zoe time #Twisbi document brown ink #instadogs #dogs #jrt #jackrussell #watercolor #aquarelle #terrier #art #painting #atlanta #chien #decatur #allaprima #ink #sbsadrawingaday #stillmanandbirn #stabilo #twisbi #watercolour #aquarelle #watercolor

Ruth and I stumbled upon these sketches when we stuck out noses in the members room at the Booth.

Everytime an artist has a show they ask them to contribute to the boards. They are about 3×4′.

I think they are neat and might make a good fund raiser.

Margaret off enjoying Atlanta. Xoxoxox

The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville is a great deal for $12. It’s huge. The grounds are full of wonderful huge bronze sculpture of cowboys and Indians.

Western art is not my thing but I loved the Modern Art Room at the Booth. I went a month ago with my oldest son but didn’t take pictures. I met my friend Ruth Pearl also an artist in Cartersville yesterday for lunch and we decided to take in the Booth. The Mesa 20′ or so.

A lot of the art is just enormous.

These pictures are also huge like the first two.

A watercolor glued and mounted on a canvas or a wooden cradle. Directions on how to do this are all over YouTube and Bob Burridge did a video on it too.

Andy Warhols!!Two huge portraits of Georgian Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp famous for the shoot out at the OK Coral.

Love the style these are painted in.

The Rough Riders is also colossal in scale. Love the brush strokes.

One interesting painting after the others. These rooms are just huge.

Love that this lady painted these on the back of her pick up truck with a palette in a couple of hours. Done in a couple of hours the Paint is as thick as icing on these.

Watercolor that’s about five feet long. And it’s incredible. The chaps look like leather.

Love this old truck and he assists take on a Van Gogh approach. Painted by a Navajo named Begay I think.

Lone Ranger and Tonti

Tomorrow out favorite painter ZzWei. If you didn’t see his show you missed it. It’s leaving Sunday.

Cartersville is a charming little town. Lots of opportunities for sketching. Good restaurants to linger over lunch talking with a friend you haven’t seen in a while. Good place for a day trip. There are several of their museums including the Tellus a science museum.

Hugs Margaret off to draw another model at Atlanta Artist Center. Well as soon as I can move my tired body. Xoxoxo

#boothwesternartmuseum #art #painting #warhol #modernart #museum #Cartersville #georgia #atlanta

The event takes place this weekend in the Olmsted Linear Parks on Ponce de Leon in Druid Hills Atlanta and in the Druid Hills Golf Club. I am sure I saw Miss Daisy drive by with Morgan Freeman.

Jill Steenhuis at St Phillips Cathedral on Peachtree.

Yesterday they were painting all over Atlanta in the rain.

Jill Steenhuis at the Swan House

Today was gorgeous. Mario A Robinson a famous water color painter painting at the farm at the Atlanta Historical Center aka the Swan House

I heard some of them were at the Goat Farm which is up in Alpharetta I think as well as some painted in the Linear Parks.

The pleine aire event lasts all week but most of the activities are tomorrow with all kinds of activities in addition to artists painting and art demos- music food trucks art displays. gAbout 120 or so artists are participating in the event this year.

I might love Yer Za Vue all the way from Portland. I went to her demo today in the park. She kept us laughing as she talked and painted during her oil painting demo today. I wish I hadnt scribbled notes all over these sketches.OH well. Maybe I won’t today. I wrote down a lot of what she said. Of course you know I will watercolor these sooner or later.

Here she is with the notes so took while she talked.

Here she is as I drew her. She was very animated. She drew Pocahontas Milan and LILO and Stitch when she worked for Disney in Florida. Now she teaches at Portland Art Institute guiding her lucky students to the kind of art they want to do.

She thought they would have a set up for her. A flower or a model. NOPE. So she decided to paint this tree.the start. One little line. She thought Georgia was too green. She likes greys better. I guess that’s why she lives in Portland.

She only had about forty minutes to paint this and hadn’t used regular oils in years because the smell of the thinner made her sick. She’s allergic to everything like me. I told you I liked her a lot. She found a cleaner that was cheap. She gets it at Home Depot by the gallon and now she can tolerate oil again. Something called Clean strip which is odorless.

Done.

Her set up

She also uses Gamblin Alkyd to make her paint thick and luscious.

She said the painting should glow from across the room and though it’s hard to tell in photos but it did.

I may have to go to Home Depot and get out my oil paints and use that odorless cleaner. I do like smearing paint on like butter.

Bedtime. Starting early tomorrow. Xoxoxo Margaret

#Olmstedlinearpark #atlanta #pleinair #oilpainting #painting #artists #paint #urbansketching #ink #watercolor #stillmanandbirn #yerzevue #lamy #druidhills

#Olmstedinvitationalpleinair #jillsteinhuis ##marioarobinson

What a gem. It alone could make me move to Atlanta. Model drawing three days a week. And three hours to draw the model.👀 Why don’t we have one in Augusta?!

Update. My friend Karen said to add some quin gold to her. I also decided to add a bit of alizarin to her cheeks. Looking at her last night I decided the green background was destroying her and added peacock blue to the background. I think it’s really a brand name for manganese. Now I think she’s done. I think it really perked her up.

Jamila about an hour or so. Not too sure I didn’t make a hash out of pretty YOUNG Jamila. Too many under eye shadows I think. And her skin isn’t dark enough. Love how I painted her braids. I scratched them w my brush handle as they dried. Also love her clothes and the background.

The rest of them. Maybe it’s the green background?! Makes the burnt sienna wash out?!! I dunno. Maybe I should add some Managanese to it tomorrow.

Canson waterboard 4b pencil Burnt sienna cobalt blue for skin w alizarin on cheeks and lips. Burnt number and ultramarine for hair. Alizarin jacket imperial purple on blouse. Background is Charles Reids favorite green chrome green that he uses on all his flower leaves.

8 1/2 x11″ practice sketch in superaquabee paper. Same colors.

I gave it to Jamila and she lit up like a Christmas tree. She was so sweet.

I started this one in the last hour. Funny even though I had here hours I paced myself for our usual two hour sessions in Aiken. I have to say three hours of painting was exhausting.

One more sketch forty minutes or so. Also on Canson waterboard. This is my favorite. But oops her eyes are two sizes, not quite the same shape and tooooo far apart. That dark under her lip is too dark. Oh well. It was fun. Here’s Miss Jamila. I didn’t do her justice. Maybe I will have another go sometime.

Isn’t she adorable. It was nice to get to draw a young girl for once.

After I left I went to Chic Fil A and got my secret weapon a large tea light ice and ordered GRILLED chicken nuggets. I was on my way to the yarn store when I discovered they were fried. Yum yum. Manana from heaven. 🤗👍🏻❤️

A trip to Traders Joes for flowers. Peonies soooo gorgeous. And then Tuesday Morning for an apron which I left at home.

I threw my paintbrush on my favorite turquoise T-shirt today. Not easy to do. 👀🤪

Ttyl Margaret having fun in a Atlanta. Xoxoxo

Jamila x3. #model #lead #pencil #sketching #watercolor #allaprima #aquarelle #canson #board #danielsmith #holbein #mgraham #albeyer #aiken #atlanta

Another day another Grant. Twisbi pen with Deartrementis document brown.

Maybe I should have left him like this?!!

I never know when to quit. A common problem. Now thinking about adding some blue to the sofa. Hmmm.

Margaret who’s heading to the gym than to urban sketch I HOPE. Xoxoxo. Stepping away from the insane sock knitting. I hope.

Grant 3 ! Twisbi document brown ink #instadogs #dogs #pittie #pitbull #watercolor #aquarelle #terrier #art #painting #atlanta #chien #decatur #allaprima #ink #sbsadrawingaday #stillmanandbirn #stabilo #twisbi #watercolour #aquarelle #watercolor #superaquabee