Hurrah I am in Boone in class but in the meantime more mixed media fun. Assignment was to make a medusa. Suppose to write in her hair I mean snakes. Not done that yet but will update when I do. She is TOO much fun and I really don’t want to write in her hair. 

Super creepy. Black masking tape base with pages from an old book glued on it. I forgot to take a picture of the base. Sorry.  

She really is creepy to look at to long from a distance and I have to do that to adjust her. 

I added red and highlights to her eyes. And some colors on the snakes. 

I found out all that white was not supposed to be on her.  Did the base wrong. It was supposed to be all dark. OOPPS!!

Ttyl Margaret watching Charles Reid paint. Hurrah!! Xoxox

Update: A lot more white now. I actually colored it a lot with a white neocolor ii to get it this bright. I thought I might have to break out the gesso. So this is it for now.  

I ripped strips of tape off the face on the left when I was at USCA today. Still have to fix that one. 

Odd how it looks like an old peeling wall. 

Update!! The page til after I eat dinner.  
Hmmm this is a page to the ancestors. I used white because that’s the color the Chinese use for death and venerated ancestors which is part of what this page is about. 

 Not done yet.  Who knows where it will end.  It’s already changed since I took this picture. 

I added white paint and stamped some More.  Scribbled and scrapped some more. 

Funny things happen when you do these pages. Call it serendipitous ESP or who knows maybe it’s the ancestors doings?  

My friend Marsha and I were looking at this spread at breakfast this morning.  I was making a list of things to add to the book.  Into my pea brain popped eyes on the house where the three little boys are. Almost simultaneously out of Marshas mouth popped out an evil eye on the house. Strange but true. 

At this point to was just too busy. No focus. No place to rest the eye. I came home and started painting white acrylic on it which was pink.  Not easy to paint over caran dache which is water soluble. 

I also stamped some more.  Can’t get enough stamping.  And scribbled with the 6B lead and scratching layers off with scissors.  

Ttyl mArvaret on the way to Boone. Xoxo Charles Reid here I come. Xoxoxo 

Life model Andrea 2×3′ today #acrylic #acrylicpainting #allaprima #lifemodeling #portrait #aikensc #augustaga #notquitedone #nude

Forty minutes in. After a restart. Decided to whack her legs off. All the guys joked that I had her most important parts. 😳😕
Second break 80 minutes?

Marilyn Hartley’s lovely sketch. She didn’t get quite done.

 We short people have a problem seeing the model when Al lays her out on top of the plinths.  Like me Marilyn is short. We can barely see anything but a very narrow view. 

Kathe Dennis beautiful crayons sketch. 

Tom Needham’s watercolor

Rachel Millers lovely watercolor. 

Al Beyer A huge oil

Drew Murphys beautiful acrylic

Ilaina Van Pelt our usual models awesome oil. She’s really doing great. Look at Those feet!! Awesome job. 

Margaret madly packing. CHeap Joe’s and Charles Reid tomorrow. Hurrah. 

Xoxoxo

I am just in love with the bots this Clark Ellefson makes. The whole studio was just incredible. It’s like a house on one side and a garage workshop on the other. A junkers paradise of metal bits and bobs oozing off shelves. Evidently he also makes post modern furniture too. 

The Bots at Lewis and Clark just ooze charm. Part of the fun is identifying what they are made up of. Your old lunch box or the gas can everyone had and still does in your garage.  

Even the business card is adorable and so creative.  And he’s on instagram. MUST Folow him. 

This is his wine dispenser. Not sure I would

Ever drink wine out of an old lacquer can but George did and he’s still alive.  

The Altoid bots. $45-90 each. These are also magnetized so they hang around on metal. 

These were my favorite bots with the ET lunch box and light up bottom. I took a lot of pictures of them. This is the front. 

The back.  All those things below them are the paper lamp shades you can see lit on lamps in this photo. 

Did I say I want?!  You can also see the fun funky background of the studio. Aren’t the lamps greatmasses together?! And the lunch box display. So creative. See it up on the wall top left?! 
These are the girlbots like the one on the business  card. Sorry for the bad photo but hard to take one with all the back lighting. These run around $250 each. 

I need one.  😳🤗

Glass robot and a funky lite. 

Robot sketches already framed in what I think are bridge card boxes.  Who woulda thought?! 

More robot sketches.  

Such fun.  

That gas can.  

A side view of my two favorites.  
A fun assortment.  Guess we need to start saving those spice cans.  

Et robot again. 

And again.  I did say I liked it. Right?! 

More bots. 

Details of those above. 

I really want one of these. Maybe I should start a kick starter. Don’t you want to buy one for me. Lol.  

Margaret off to tune her car up. On Charles Reid class at Boone count down.  Four more days. Xoxoxo and dr Sketchys tonite.  YEAHHHHH

The home studio of my favorite Columbia artist Laura Spong. Amazing woman still painting at 91! 

Click on this link to see more of her art. She does fabulous abstracts. Supported herself since the 60s with it. A major coupe in Columbia. 

Heidi Darr Hope I think. Fantastic shrine. Also at the Vista Studio 

Kirkland Smith. He was on these street electrical boxes. 

These were in the Vista Studio. Just made from assorted cheap plastic junk but collages into a picture. 

Up close it looks like junk but from a distance like Marilyn it has quite the impact. 

A few Robot teasers from Lewis and Clark Studio. On Huger. 

This was my absolute fav place. 
I really need one.  Somebody buy one for me please.  

Ttyl book club night.  More robots tomorrow. LOTS More. M in a hurry. Xoxo 

Been a while since I have been on Saturday and I got off to a rocky start. This is not quite finished. Because I started over after the first forty minutes I ran out of time. 

And now that I look at this one she’s too far to the left. I may just gesso over her. We shall see. 

I still have to finish her hands. I don’t know why I didn’t. 

Maybe I was just having too much fun slathering on paint. There s a heavy impasto on this Emily. And lots of what Al calls goobers lumps of acrylic. 

Earlier. 

After first break. She was still damp so I just wiped her out and started over. 

Colors used Indian yellow, thalo blue, titanium white, liquitex flesh, burnt umber, burnt sienna. 

Al Beyer. Gorgeous small oil for him. 2×3′

Coach’s nice charcoal

Kathe’s scratchy conte and pastel. Love these. 
Another Kathe. 

Tom Needham had a good day with his watercolor. 

Like me Drew had troubles today.

And Rachel’s sweet charcoal. 

And that’s it.  Ttyl

Margaret off to the polo matches tomorrow. 

For some reason this sits in my scheduled posts so clearing it out  by publishing it. Only took not quite three years to get here  I have posted from the Sunshine Parkeay in Florida on the way to Key West, on the Seine River on a Viking boat- hither and yon.  It’s been a journey. Still haven’t decided if it will go on. And on.  And on.  

A few of my Paris sketches 

A few more Charlotte sketches. 

More peeps from Peggy Habets class. 

Brenda and Rebecca with who I have had had classes at Cheap Joes. Sorry girls I got you too dark. 

Good sketchbof them. Sad I got it too dark. 

One of the Pee Dee ladies.

 Actually white headed. I forgot what color her hair was til after I painted her.  Oops.  

Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo

I suppose I should have a drawing or something but I am out of town hanging out with the grandkids and one sons dogs aka dog sitting so kinda busy! 

Working on four spreads in my Book of the Night. Somehow this one seems almost prescient after this mornings news about more bombs and a possible preemptive strike in N Korea. 

Think the upper left still needs something. And of course I left my blue prismartstick at home on the art table. Sigh.  

This one started out with a large journal piece about all the news. That Cat may have to go. Or maybe be knocked back. He’s too bright for a moonlit nite. 

Then this one. Still in the collage and stamp stage after a week.  Eeekkkk

And two pages ready for some art work. This ones is the yellowish masking tape base w cheap black craft paint over it and wiped with wet ones a bit. 

And this one.  The back of the triple hand spread from last week. 

My favorite so far. 

Ttyl off to the art stores.  

Margaret xoxoxo