Day 2017 Painting like Crazy

May 5, 2017May 6, 2017Leave a comment

As the class dwindles down. All I can say is if you have a chance to sign up for a Charles Reid class RUN and do it NOW! We are already plotting our next class with him. Always well worth the expense.

Charles is a very funny guy in an understated quiet way.

And his handler Judy his wife of 60 plus years and a retired kindergarten teacher is just adorable and funny too. Here she is regaling us with stories of how they met and fell in love. We also learned about how Charles became the artist he is today.

His painting from yesterday.

And a few photos of the process

How The Charles Reid legend began according to Judy Reid with a few additions from Charles. They are a great comedy team.

Student problems according to Charles Watch out!

And a few other odd notes and sketches from the day.

These will be painted soon!

Ttyl off to start the last day 😓😓😓

Margaret in beautiful Boone where it’s rainy and cold 46 but I still love Boone!

Xoxoxo

Day 2016 How many flowers

May 4, 2017Leave a comment

Was thinking I would NEVER paint another flower when I did this one yesterday. I guess til you get it right. Painting like crazy!!! This one was wrong … well at least the flowers. Had no clue how to paint yellow flowers.

This is what I was looking at!

So I moved things around and tried again. Charles pronounced this one a great success. Thinking it needs some more splatters and where’s the chickens eye. Great paint brush apple tubes and teapot. I can nail that fruit. Why did I think I wanted to paint that yellow bouquet.

Enough for tonite. Worn out so BED time.

Ttyl Margaret having too much fun in Boone. Xoxox

Day 1015 More flowers with Charles Reid

May 3, 20174 Comments

Charles’ painting today. Don’t address him as Mr Reid. He prefers Charles!

Painting
More Charles listening to his wife Judy who keeps the class wheels running.

Judy Reid! They have been married since the early 1960s. Just newly weds!

His set up

20 minute sketching then time for a break to smoke his pipe .

His paints!!

And we are done after several breaks for his pipe!! Love everything about this painting!

Painting number 2. I did four half sheet paintings in two days. Getting to be a teapot expert. Four teapots down and no more flowers. Hmm think I need to pint MORE flowers. Practice required!!!!

Color me happy but exhausted. I think I finally figured it out well sorta kinda mostly.

Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo off to the land of nod

Day 2014 I am HERE!!

May 2, 20175 Comments

In Boone NC at Cheap Joes. Hanging out with Charles Reid and his adorable wife Judy. And Joe Miller aka Cheap Joe is here too. Such great people. And my friend Mike and her husband Alan.

In the class of 18 we have had the first of May class with at least the same 7 or 8 people now for three years so we are all getting to be friends. Several of them were in my class in Charlotte too – a small world of watercolor painters.

So what did we paint today?! FLOWERS AND more FLOWERS.

This is Charles’ painting from today. He takes a break every 20 minutes. It took him maybe two hours to paint this. Down by 11:30. Sigh. One day.

This is what he was painting. Judy said they had large decoy collections at their house in Nova Scotia. No surprise there. He always paints his decoys.

His paint box. This box costs about $500. He finally bought it because he was going thru $80 Holbein palettes like mine every two years. This one will last him forever.

Ok so what did I paint today?! This is it. Well one of them. Half sheet of Fabriano 300# cold press. My almost Charles Reid!!

Ttyl. Time for bed. All this painting is exhausting. Margaret xoxoxo

Day 1013 – mixedmedia and Charles Reid time!!!

May 1, 2017May 1, 20173 Comments

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

Day 1012 more extreme journaling graffiti

April 30, 2017April 28, 2017Leave a comment

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

Day 1011 Life Modeling aka Its Saturday

April 29, 2017Leave a comment

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

Day 1011 Some Grafitti aka Extreme Journaling

April 28, 20177 Comments

Well let’s hope I don’t accidentally delete this post this time. ROUND TWO!!

This is the assignment for week five of the Juliana Coles The Book of the Night class. Based on the Persephone Demeter Greek Myth. As usual first we journaled. Then I painted it out.

And I painted collaged and stamped it.

I added some red paint wiping it off and some purple on the spring side.

Added the white lettering with caran dache neocolor ii and scribbled on it some of the neocolors.

I also used my new favorite toy a 6B lead that I bought at Cityart last Thursday for $1.29. They have a storefront and gallery in the Vista.

The lettering on the leaves was done with the lead. I also enhanced the skulls in Hades on the bottom right with the caran dache neocolor iis. They didn’t show enough

Then I added some more red to the wrap on the girl on the left. I was hoping it would add to the flames of hades. Not sure it did But it’s done for now.

Ttyl. packing one more day til I leave for Charles Reid class. Margaret xoxoxox

Day 1010 Bits and Bobs

April 27, 2017Leave a comment

I painted this a while back and never got around to posting him. An older gentleman enjoying his kindle or his iPad in the window of the Inner Bean. I have painted that light several times. It alway eludes me. MAybe tomorrow when I meet Marsha there forBrunch?!

Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.

That light. I coated it with Quin gold first. Then cerulean. Probably the color that got me into trouble. It’s opaque. I think the shadow is Daniel Smith piemonite with ultramarine blue. Love piemonite.

Two days til Boone!!! And Charles Reid. Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo

Day 1009 Those Bots

April 26, 2017Leave a comment

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.