Been working on this bird for a few days. Maybe a week off and on.









Margaret ready for bed xoxoxox
Been working on this bird for a few days. Maybe a week off and on.
Margaret ready for bed xoxoxox
Margaret xoxoxox who is now tahred.
From watercolorlive2023
I actually had the same one. Thanks dad. It was my fathers old one. I tend to the triangular springy small ones that look like cake knifes. Anyway I tried my old springy one to do the poles but didnβt work to well. Dug out dads during the break between classes. So much easier. Then I made a lot of lines w it. Did walkways gang ways porches. Over the top as usual.
Night night. Though I had. A nice long nap I need another one to get rid of this cold. Oh yes u have had quite the cold thru this whole crazy long days of painting. Xoxoxox @
Hahnemuhle 140# half sheet
Anyway hereβs the photo.
Margaret done for the day. xoxoxox hoping she will get this one painted and then finish the Atlanta one. π€π»π€π»π€π»
I actually like this so far. The morning will tell. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
Yellow ochre cobalt and alizarin This layer will eventually disappear or appear to be white.
Margaret ready for a nap after four hours of madly chasing after Vlad today. Eeek.
Xoxoxoxo
That boat in the middle. Thought I would never get it drawn. Right now itβs done but who knows when i look on the am?!
If the drawings not right you canβt start painting.
Hugs Margaret xoxoxo looking at a busy day tomorrow.
On the whole I like it but feel itβs a little light. I will sleep on it and decide. Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
Margaret all in for tonite. Michaelβs tomorrow for some fixative I hope. Otherwise waiting til I go to Blick this weekend.
Xoxoxo
Winter in St Petersburg makes me glad we don’t live in a cold cold clime like that. Half sheet Kilimanjaro 20×15″
These are some famous buildings in St Petersburg. Took an online class from Tatiana Assimova (she’s on IG) where you spoke Russian to us and Vlad translated simultaneously. How crazy we live in a day and age you can take a class live all the way from St Petersburg while it’s being translated in Sarasota FL on zoom?!
The sketch and my paper sopping wet. We wet both sides and let it sink into the paper. I used a big hake brush to do it.
Mine was so wet it was still dripping on the back side FOUR hours later. I kept trying to paint the people and my trees in the foreground and they just kept running.
The trees are painted with a half worn out chip brush. The cheap house painting brushes you can buy for $1 each. Or by the bagful at Michael’s.
Finally used a hair dryer on it. BOTH a front and back sides. C R A Z Y. Nothing was drying. Maybe because I had the windows open?! Usually everything dries quickly running the AC or heat.
sky wash of Daniel Smith neutral tint over a yellow ochre layer. All very wet. It does make great skies though.
Onto the buildings. Yellow ochre and neutral tint. I did not get the 911 at first that you had to use straight color to keep it from running a lot. Oops. I did by the time I got to the building on the left.
Colors neutral tint yellow ochre and a dab of burnt sienna.
More trees and buildings. My details kept mushing into the backgrounds. Oops. Too wet.
And now everything else was running together or running away. Sigh. I kept waiting for the trees to dry but no no no they weren’t. I scrubbed off the lilac grey in the foreground.
Hair dryer time.
Here it is now. A fun experiment.
Electric lines done w a liner neutral tint the gouache. The snow spattered w white gouache on a toothbrush. Lots of paint slinging. You should see the tv on my painting Table. Oops.
I removed the icky grey cerulean yellow ochre stripe on the bottom of the boat on the right. Looks so much better now so I signed it calling it DONE!! Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev.
Here’s the boat with the icky stripe still. I taped it off and swiped it with a Mr Clean eraser. Softened the bottom edge. Looked at it awhile and pronounced it D O N E.
Margaret taking it easy tonite. Online class with Don Andrew‘s tomorrow. Wanted to take a class with him for a long time. LOVING Zoom classes. Xoxo