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Emily. Thought she was a disaster but that changed.

18×24″ For Sale!! Email me If she needs to come stay at your house.

Saturday mornings when I am in town aka Augusta a bunch of us get together at USCAiken and draw a model. Today was sweet quieter Emily.

First break

I had new paper Blicks Bristol. It was NOT kind to the paint(or the painter!!😱) at first. It wicked up the watercolor. IMPOSSIBLE to soften an edge. Like the worst nightmare of using hot press paper which is notorious for making a mess of a your best attempts at a painting. I would put on some paint and it looked horrendous. Look at the painting at the first break. Eeekkk. Was all that I could think.

I thought about starting over AGAIN on some Canson Mi Teinte paper but after consulting with Miss Katie I started slathering on paint. Attacking with a 2″ flat – Cheap Joes Golden Fleece. The painting was looking up.

first sketch maybe 25 minutes.

I kept adding pure color with little water because it would not budge once you put it on. Sometimes I added a lot of water on the palette. Not how I usually paint.

Usually putting on a lot of paint and washing it out on the paper a la Charles Reid.

At the end I added smears is white gouache I borrowed from Tom and went over it again with my 6b lead.

Al said it was one of my best. I think he might be right.

Brushes used #10 Da Vinci sable #16 Joes Legend. 1 and 2″ 2″ flat – Cheap Joes Golden Fleece

Colors Used Quin Gold, quin Rust, quin Magenta, quin red, inanthrodone blue, Chrome green, veridian Green, cerulean and Sienna, Burnt Sienna

Chunk of 6B lead and a 6B pencil

Now for the rest. Not many today. <<
eet Katie Padgett's lovely charcoal. She has really grown as an artist this past year knocking out some killer art!!

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ew Murphy's wonderful large acrylic 2'x3' she just glows

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s wonderful large nude. Oil 3×4'

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ed's large acrylic Mondrian. Even Fred couldn't make sweet Emily look too angry.

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ach Larry's charcoal. he was sitting on the floor below Emily.

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chel Millers lovely quiet nude

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m Needhams small quiet WIP. Abe's going to finish this so you will have to go to his website to see it finished. Www.thomas Needham.com

And that's it. Jeremy and Alex ran out the door along with Dawn and Molly and her husband. Wonder if I am missing a party somewhere?! A parade maybe?!

That's a wrap for this Saturday xoxoxo

Margaret who has to get busy playing Santa but might take a nap first.

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Finally got painted. Henry my grandson LOVED this. He promptly dragged out another for me to draw.

Colors used: Pyrrole red, quin gold cerulean, burnt sienna. Some white gel pen highlights.

The original sketch done with my Lamy Ef, Noodler Eelskin ink, stillman and birn sketchbook.

Thanks for looking. New tires and a few very late Christmas cards today. Maybe I can draw the mechanics at Costco while I get my tires?! Margaret xoxoxo

Henry’s Japanese monsters. #sketching #decatur #ink #atlanta #georgia #stillmanandbirn #lamyef #sketchbookskool #crosshatching #line #inkdrawing #japan #monsters

Finally a kid that holds still. Clara my niece doesn’t move a muscle in front of a favorite tv show and why should she relaxing on the oh so comfy Lazyboy at the cabin.

Piles of teabags drying.

Better get busy painting on this stack. All shapes and sizes. Helps to put something heavy on them after they are dry to flatten them.

Colors used: washed background is either quin gold or yellow ochre, cad yellow w a dab of pyrrole red for letters. Pyrrole red letter outline. Pyrrole red and yellow ochre for skin. Hair sienna and burnt umber. Sofa green apatite and quin gold w ultramarine shadows. Clothing marine blue and ultramarine blue. And that’s it folks.

Off to a Christmas luncheon so I better get dressed. Wanted to lie in my comfy bed all day. I have missed it when I was in Atlanta

Margaret xoxoxo

Everybody’s Eating Ice Cream Harmony Plaza Oakhurst

Hard to believe that only a week ago everyone in Atlanta and Decatur was running around in SHORTS. A week later it was up to 11 inches of SNOW and freezing temps.

Last week Harmony Plaza was loaded with kids gobbling ice cream from Oakhurst Market and climbing in the sculpture playing ball. Yesterday nobody was there. NOT ONE person. Too cold.

One thing about the weather it got me painting my sketches which were building up. Couldn’t go anywhere with the snow the ice and the cold cold temps not letting it melt off like it usually does here in a day or even as fast as it comes down.

And a panorama or two out the back window of the endless snow Friday. But today I am off to sketch somewhere in Atlanta since the High is closed today. Maybe early tomorrow before I head home?!

Colors used pyrrole red cerulean ultramarine blue burnt umber sienna green apatite or is it green hematite?! Yellow ochre quin gold marine blue sky!!

Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo

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Thanks to all the new followers I have been at this daily posting for over 1100 consecutive days now.

Plenty of time to drink hot tea when you are snowbound.

How to empty a teabag.

Clip them on the back w scissors and rinse them out. Lay flat to dry. Some like Lipton’s and Paul Newman will open up flat. You can dry them in a low oven if u are in a hurry. My ice scraper. Who knew Chacos made good ice scrapers? Finally scraped the inches of snow and ice off my windshield last nite before a quick trip to chic fil a.

Just thankful my car started up fine. I am sure it’s in shock since it normally would be in its cozy garage not sitting out in the weather in the icy cold.

Then I was back painting my dried out tea bags. Used watercolor pentel brush pen pitt pen white gouache.

Off to see the grandkids as soon as the roads thaw!

Margaret getting cabin fever xoxoxo

I assume it’s the old Brunson Place because a short road named Brunson runs up to the front yard.

I wonder why paintings go better when they are vertical. Sometimes I CANT paint at all when they are flat on the table. Think gravity helps with watercolor making the wet on wet colors mingle.

I guess it was boring in black and white.

Colors used quin gold and sienna. Pyrrole red cerulean ultramarine burnt umber sepia marine blue sky green apatite cad red I think though I don’t use the cads much.

Stillman and birn alpha Da Vinci 10 sable Lamy EF w eelskin ink and I splattered it with sienna and ultramarine/sepia