Day 998 Oh My Two More Days Painting PCM

April 15, 20177 Comments

Spent yesterday hitting the art stores and taking photographs for possible future paintings at Ponce City Market.

It’s a HUGE rehabbed old Sears building on Ponce de Leon near the Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Whoever designed it kept much of the funkiness of the old building keeping the floors and the huge support columns and the ibeams in the floors.

The two panoramas give a 360 degree view of the space which is jammed packed with the smells of the 20 plus upscale chef run restaurants that allow you and your friends many delicious choices of food which you eat in the open areas.

Outside eating area is a huge interesting place called the Shed which is an enormous concrete beam structure surrounded by restaurants ok one side and stores on the other. I think it’s new construction but not sure. I really need to sit down and draw it becAuse it’s wonderful to look at.

The store side of the Shed.

Sunday there is an art market in the shed. Going to check that out tomorrow but since it’s Easter thinking it’s not open.

Keep taking photos of a few places that just appeal to my eye. This Caribbean food place El Super Pan is just delightfully funky with its purple lit metal overhang. Someplace I have an unpainted sketch of this place.

And my favorite golden dragon Chinese restaurant. I have painted this twice. Love that dragon.

This couple sat down inches from me at the same table Aron f one of the columns between me and the object of my attention. The golden dragon column. Yes there were other tables to sit at but no they had to block my view. Irritated with the self involved duo I snapped their photo and immortalized the French Fry couple.

Here’s the sketch I had been doing.

I love going upstairs and taking photos of the first floor over the railing.

That’s how I snapped the photo for this painting called Looking Down which was recently juried into the Anderson Center for the Arts Show which is considered a coup in South Carolina.

One of the appeals of Ponce city Market besides the delicious food are the masses of people and the odd interesting architectural elements like the large yellow and black arrow in the upper right.

I think you could find a life time of paintings on the environs of PCM aka Ponce City Market. Something about this one. The two guys one big one little trudging off across the light from the doors.
Sooner or later I will get a food pic of this bar. Maybe on my big camera not my phone. I have two hundred or so photos there.

A trip to PCM is not complete without drooling over the delicious candy shop

And my personal favorite the St Germain a PArisian themed patisserie loaded with all things Parisian – macaroons, breads, small crispy meringues, real marshmallows and cases of decadent gorgeous goodies.

Trying to resist the lure of PCM today a Sketchers paradise but there are eggs to dye and Easter prep to be done.

Ttyl

Margaret loving Atlanta even when it took me an hour and 15 min to drive 4 miles from Trader Joe’s to the house. Xoxoxo

Day 997 Denizens 2

April 14, 2017Leave a comment

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

Day 997 Four more days till 1000

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017Leave a comment

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

Day 996 the denizens

April 13, 2017Leave a comment

Of the Peggy Habets class.

Donna from Maryland. She got a little dark. One thing about strathmore mixedNMedia books. They live watercolor but it’s hard to lift it.

Day 995 – Will I make 1000?!

April 13, 2017Leave a comment

Raisin and Oshow her Friesian Horse 11×16.

You never know. I almost forgot today. Too busy painting and then hanging out with friends. Painted all day on this.

The sketch in 300# Kilimanjaro Last nite. Off to the races.

Raisin done. Well mostly.

Will just post the pictures in order so you can see the progress yourself.
As of five today. Going to live with it and see if it says it’s done.

Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo

Day 994 – Peggy Habet’s class

April 11, 2017April 12, 2017Leave a comment

I drew Peggy several times during class. This was the last time and looks the most like her. Fourth time the charm. She was hard to draw with a long thin nose and a tiny face.

The nose kept overpowering her tiny face when I drew her. This was the first try. And then I painted her too dark so I scrubbed her a little to lighten her up. I did have fun stamping her name and embellishing the page with a watercolor pencil.

Go round three. Nose still too big. Eeekkk. The hair is a combo of thalo and sepia.

Number four. TOO Dark!!!’ What the heck.

Better. But the face was too wide and not oval enough. I could make it narrower by adding hair.

I painted on my class sketches most of the day. Guess it’s time to do those color studies.

Margaret xoxoxo whose having a painting day.

Day 993 How many more days till 1000?!!!

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017Leave a comment

SeVeN. HURRAH!!

I might cut back to three four times a week. What do you think I should do?!

Worked on this page this morning.

This is what it looked like this am.

What the whole three page spread looks line now.

I colored the hand green with a Prismacolor art stick. The scar letter on the right was done in a page ripped from an old Bartletts quotations.

I flipped this huge thick book open randomly to Lewis Carrol which I thought quite odd since I had a couple of quotes from Alice on the middle page. Decided to save it , read it and maybe cut up the poems on it later.

Flipped the book again without looking. Louisa May Alcott was on that page. I have read every book she wrote at least once and read Little Women multiple times. It’s also the only book I own multiple copies of.

I scribbled the letter with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum black. I ripped the letter by laying my hand on it to give it a hand shape but leave the X-ray part and glued it down.

The milagro heart was also a piece of the same Louisa May Alcott page. The shreds of the ripped up letter cut out like a heart and glued and colored. After all sometimes our hearts need a miracle.

Why a heart?! The reason for the X-ray. Some scars are hidden!! And you know your heart is one such place.

Then I colored it with Prismacolor paint sticks and tombow markers. The Tombows did really well on the black masking tape. Who knew?!

Margaret xoxoxo

Day 992 Peggi Habets Class

April 9, 2017April 9, 2017Leave a comment

At Nancy Couick’s Art Studio in Charlotte was just great. A very cerebral thought provoking class. Peggi imparts ALOT of knowledge in a jam packed four days.

A tiny little woman with a lot of knowledge and a definite joy in sharing what she knows.

Her next painting. She’s working on a series of ballet dancers for a show with three other artists. They start with a photo session.

After she decides on the photo she then makes 3 small 5×7 ” black and white pencil studies.

More black and white studies.

She also uses the Pythagorean theorem to design her pictures as well as 2-3 color studies for her paintings. Colors combos might be complimentary colors analogous colors and tertiary colors.

Something I definitely need to work on. Hers are immaculate. Mine not so much.

My color studies. It’s also a good place to work out design problems. I have another one of these but not painted it yet.

She also gets you to form a story for the painting. This is a large future color study for a full sheet watercolor of Raisin who loves Frisian horses and owns several.

3×4′ acrylic

This is the same photograph painted as a large acrylic. I never quite finished it because it does not have a story. So now I can go back and fix this one. Yeah.

One of Raisins freisians

Margaret xoxox

Day 991 Livie done and a Class Review

April 8, 2017April 9, 2017Leave a comment

Trying to decide if she’s done. Not sure I like the dark blue side. Maybe too strong?!

Peggy Habets an awesome painter and loaded with knowledge that she shares. Such a willing and gracious teacher.

Would I take her class again?! Yes. I have yet to meet a more diligent thoughtful teacher who wants everyone to be their own painter in their own style and NOT just paint like her. And she helps you figure out what that is. She also gives the best bound handout I have ever gotten in a class. Hmm the only hand out I have ever gotten

Peggi only uses M Graham paints which stay moist forever. A good thing when you are laying in a LOT of colors.

Raisin and I went to Cheap Joes to get several more tubes of it to augment our palette and a new palette just for the M Graham paint. M Graham is made with blackberry honey as the binder and doesn’t dry on your palette whilst you are using it.

One of the girls at Cheap Joes said not a good thing when you do Plein Air. The bees love it and swarm to your palette. Eeekk