Happy Fourth of July holidays!!
Looking for something to draw the other day to complete a spread of cars and I thought Henry has lots of them. Could I find any so I could choose them.
Nope just two. The woody was much more interesting to draw than the yellow one but Henry loved that I drew them and wrote a story about his cars.
Ttyl Margaret off to Sapphire Valley in The North Carolina mountains for the holidays. Xoxoxo
My kids pit bull Briard mix Lucy Dog. Just the sweetest dog but a pain to paint. She’s a tawny brindle. So how do you paint that.
I think I tried every color I have I. The. Brown range burnt umber, Quin Sienna and Quin gold and piemonite. None worked well. Too dark to red too gold. All worked for small areas. I finally used quin Sienna w a bit of burnt umber. Ultramarine for the darks with the burnt umber.
Cerulean for greys mixed with Quin Sienna and Andrews turquoise with some Quin Sienna for the throw.
Mr Clean erasers were my friend to lift highlights lost.
The sketch done with a 6B pencil.
Ttyl. Thanks for stopping by. Margaret xoxoxo
Sweet Emily! 18×24″ What happens when you use a two inch flat brush on Bristol!!
Charles reid watercolor hand held palette which put my hand to sleep. #allaprima #nude #lifemodel #watercolor #aquarelle #aquarellepainting #pencil #pencildrawing #lostedges #emily
1″&2″ Cheap Joes Golden Fleece Flat brush and #10 Da Vinci and that’s it.
Tip: curling thinner paper. To get it to lie flat, paint it w water on the back and it will flatten out.
First break 40 min.
Painted on strathmore Bristol 100# which is like hot press paper but cheaper.
Wash of DS Quin coral and yellow ochre w some cerulean and burnt sienna. Background, hair, drapes burnt umber ultramarine
Drapes Aurelion, Winsor Yellow, Quin Gold w burnt umber ultramarine darks
4B and 6B pencils
The crowd was thin today. So not many paintings. A lot of people on vacation but I do love to paint Emily!!
Drew Murphys acrylic. The quips were flying between us. One of the things we paint for. I told him his was a little grey this time. Usually they are bright and vivid.
Fred the dentist. Oops he left early. 
Als lovely huge oil. Amazing what he gets done in two hours. This is four by 3 FEET!
Rachel who’s only been painting anyear or so but she draws at every meeting. Drawing practice gets the job done! You WILL improve. Like anything else you want to do well you have to practice. ALOT!!!
Margaret who has a dog and a mill to paint. Oh and a couple of cars and some rubber duckies. Thanks for stopping by. Xoxoxoxo
The first car drawing. You know some lights last forever. And if they don’t last long enough you can add a car at the next light. Like people another car identical to the last one will show up.
When the fun of drawing wonky cars was discovered.
Now I am wondering exactly what that water Delaware graphite 6B pencil would do to these. Could be FUN!
Off to look at houses. Thanks for stopping by.
Margaret xoxoxoxo in Atlanta
Excited the Farrier was excepted In the Georgia Watercolor Society show. YEAH!! #farrier #gws #watercolor #aquarelle #horses
Off to spread the joy and order a frame.
Margaret thanks for stopping by. Xoxoxox
Painting those wonky cars!! Oddly the 6B pencils repel watercolor. A strange effect.
Not that it will keep me from drawing with them. 
The sketches before painting.
Back to the grandkids. Thanks for stopping by!
Margaret xoxoxox
Went to a great book talk at AB Browns today by Mary Alice Monroe for her newest book in her Beach House series the quintessential summer beach book based on Isle of Palms near Charleston.
Though I have read some of the books with the turtles in them has no idea they are really to educate us about her latest passion. I tend to read the story for the story not to find hidden meanings.
That said I always enjoy them.
The latest book is about pelican rescue her latest passion. The raptor center even named a pelican that she rescued after her Mary Ann so I decided to draw Mary Ann to fill up the page.
The notes are just things that she said about her passions pelicans shorebirds.
She’s also an excellent palmetto bug stomper. One was running around the room the talk was held in. It’s a skill u acquire when you got to SC Low country beaches. I won’t tell you how I know.
The lunch was excellent. HEirloom tomato soup. 
Shrimp and grits and a peach cheese cake for desert.
Ttyl. Off to Atlanta! Thanks for stopping by!! Margaret xoxoxoxo
Livia my sons pit bull. Not my best sketch of her. I have drawn her five or six times.
The eyes were too low and close together oops. I darkened the right eye made both of them larger and added a dab of white gel pen.
Before I decided to add the Quin Sienna to her coat. Like the Quin Sienna one much better.
Guess I better fix those eyes at least make her look not cross eyed. Eeekk.
Some older ones of Livie.
The languid lounger.
My favorite
She has penetrating stare.
Thanks for looking. Margaret xoxoxo
It actually poured on us before we left so not a bright sunny day BUT who wants a swimming hole with no sun?!
One thing about painting you can make it sunny or overcast.
Pine Lake is the smallest town in Georgia with a population of less than 800 and used to be a weekend escape place for Buckhead elite when all the roads were dirt.
The lake is the center of the town with charming cottages and small houses built on the surrounding small hills.
Painted with my Ted Nuttall transparent palette plus green apatite in the trees and grasses.
Happy Sunday!
Margaret xoxoxox
Andrea was our model today. This is largish 18×24 largely painted alla prima which means first strike. I came prepared to draw and paint in a smaller sketchbook a 10×18 Superaquabee.
I liked the pose so much decided to go bigger. So first break I ran around getting larger paper together. George Dawnay gave me a piece of 90# Bristol paper to start over on. Thank goodness.
All I had were my waterbrushes which would NOT begin to cover that big piece of paper. Robert kindly loaned me his wonderful winsor Newton Series 7 brushes. They are now on my I need list!!
It was like painting on a thinner piece of hot press paper.
Al actually said it looked like a watercolor should. Be still my heart.
This was after the second break. I only painted on this about an hour. It needs more work on the background or not. We shall see.
The pencil sketch went much faster the second time around.
I washed her with cad yellow and cad red mixed. Then I used mostly Quin magenta and inathrodone blue on her for the shadows. A bit of Quin coral for cheeks. Hair Quin sienna Quin burnt sienna and inathrodone blue.
This was the smaller version I did in my 10×18 Superaquabee which loves watercolor. I never quite finished this one.
George Delaunays exquisite pastel. LOVE the feet. He’s a very energetic sketcher. Stepping back and forth to and from the easel as he works.
Drew Murphys large acrylic. He’s also energetic but in his use of brush sticks. Always like his work.
Al Beyer. A huge painting. Love the fabric drape. Always lovely paintings.
Iliana’s lovely oil. Rather Gauginish I think.
Tom Needham’s elegant watercolor done in washes.
Fred still emulating Mondigliani!!
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
