Sunday. I don’t seem to quit running. Emily acrylic 24×30 painted in about an hour and a half. 

Think her forehead is a tad too narrow which is an easy fix. Where I painted it was the black hole of Calcutta. No light because of Matthew pouring outside.

Drew Murphy. Amazing he painted this in about a half an hour. It’s 24×30. Acrylic. 
Drews first painting. He didn’t like t so he started over.  

Ruth Pearls beautiful conte crayon sketch. 

Al Beyers huge oil. About 3’x4′. Amazing to paint this in an hour and a half. 

Ruth’s second sketch. 
Done by Coach.  I need to learn his name. Large charcoal. 

FRed Bakers 24×30 acrylic. Another of his mad women. 

Tom Needhams lovely watercolor. Quarter sheet. 
And our newbee who amazes me. A little off but what talent in someone sketching for only a year. 

Mine in progress. 

Second break. Maybe I should have stopped here?
After forty minutes. 

True Margaret off to Asheville be back tonite. Xoxox napping now.  Lol. 

Decided to draw today instead of paint. Partially because I only had a rectangular canvas and the pose was a reclining one. All six of these were drawn in about an hour and a half. 

My first sketch. Kuretake brush pen with carbon platinum black ink. 

I never finished this one. No shadow on her face. Paper is Stonehenge print paper which does great with ink and markers. 

Most of them were done with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum plus ink and colored with Tombow markers. The red one is done with red watercolor pencil. 10×14 Canson Pastel Paper

All Tombows on canson pastel paper. 10×14

Just the brush pen on canson pastel paper.10×14 Took about 20 minutes. 

Kuretake brush pen again on canson pastel paper. 10×14 This took about ten minutes. 
And the rest of them……

Cathe Dennis acrylic 24×30 love this. So ephemeral but still solid. And sketchy yet not. The fabric is so rich. 

All Beyer’s huge oil. 3×4? 

Our model the lovely Ilania checking out Als work to give you an idea of how big it is. 

Coachs incipient charcoal. He does a great job. He zipped out the door before I could take a pic of the final product. 

Thomas Needham’s beautiful small watercolor. 

Sketching for only a year, Rachel Millers 10×14 watercolor. To think this is one of her very first watercolors. The woman is so talented. She continues to amaze me. 

Marilyn Hartleys awesome charcoal and I think conte crayon. She said it wasn’t very artistic. I was thought what???

Here it is earlier. Such a great sketch. 

Mary Donnans pastel. Love the colors. 

Fred’s odalisque Acrylic 24×36. 

The rest got away before I had a chance to snap a pic. 
Have a great day. 
Ttyl 
Margaret xxx

Sons coming home with his new wife for the first time so I have been scrubbing the house from top to bottom making it glow. 

But here’s a journal page. Last photo. Only 13 days left. Enjoying the most delicious black bean soup that’s been in the slow cooker all day. Yum yum. 

I kept scribbling on it and taking photos. This is what it looked it looked like at first. This is just watercolor. Daniel Smith and Winsor Newton. 

I decide it was boring so started scribbling  on it with my neocolor ii watercolor crayons. 

Here’s even more scribble. It was scribble take a pic scribble some more. 

Did I go to far?! Oh well on to the next page. 

Ttyl

 Margaret putting her feet up xooxoxo

It’s been one of those days. If it could go wrong it did. 

Funmaliya Ngozi 8×10″ watercolor and Tom bow markers. Kuretake brush pen

Went sketching with my friend Ruth at Best of Augusta where we drew the singers. We actually gave our sketches to the artists which means when my new iPhone 7 was updated at Verizon I lost a few days of photos including those of my sketches. It was backed up with the October 3 backup.  

So I got a semi brilliant idea if you can be brilliant on four hours sleep to take photos of the photos on my old phone.

It actually worked fairly well. 

Here’s one I took with my new phone. We love to hear Bill sing but he had his Frank Sinatra on Last nite and wasn’t holding still. They were also the first sketches that I did which can be a problem. 

I never quite finished this one. After last weeks sketches at Dr Sketchys I got spoiled and didn’t like these. Not so bad when I look at them now. 

Thanks for checking by. More Best of Augusta tomorrow. 

Margaret off to buy a new router.  Yes it died. The pool pump died. Flood insurance is due and oh yeah the plumber is coming to fix the whole house water filter which seems to be jammed. Sigh. Pray for me. 🙄😬😏

11th and Broad Street on a Summer First Friday – Acrylic 36×48 

Glad to be finally done with this monster. NOw to chose the next painting. Starting it tomorrow. It’s going to be one of the following photos. 

Leaning toward the street scene with all the people.  

But who doesn’t like a bright fall day. 

Or the girls lunching on a nice fall day. 

Or then there’s the  guy I surprised yesterday at the Inner Bean. 

Hmm which will it be. Have to decide today because tomorrow I start another!

Sketching tonite at Best of Augusta. Always love some live sketching!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret xoxoxox

Two more spreads colored with winsor Newton and Caran d’ache neocolor ii
Ttyl

Margaret could xoxox down 20 lb. 

But I have been busy learning to make kombucha and buying the stuff to make it. Then starting it. 

Anyway I sat in a class this afternoon when I should have been blogging. No sketchbook and all these people holding still begging for me to draw them as they quietly listened to Theresa telling us how to make kombucha. 
I drew on the back of my hand out. Oops. Amid my notes on how to make kombucha I drew the teacher and my classmates. 

Why kombucha?? Lots of probiotics and B vitamins and a long list of health benefits. Oh and tastes good. Fizzy sweetened w stevia of truvia so lo cal too. Maybe a substitute for coke??!

Oh that kombucha?? I got a 2 gallon jug to brew it in.  When I cooked the tea off enough to make the kombucha I had left the spigot open on the jug. A good deal of my cooled tea went down the drain before I realized what was happening. OOOPPSS. 

Guess I will start over tomorrow. Sigh. Oh but first I will post all the paintings from the studio today. 

For some reason I thought the sketches would be faster. Another OOOPPPPPsss. 

Ttyl 

Margaret xxx

Way behind coloring the journal. Bytw down 19 pounds now. 

You might ask why I keep track of the food.  The days I don’t I tend to overeat. Oops. 

So finally I sat down to paint a few of them. The title page was done with winsor Newton markers and Caran d’ache neocolor ii watercolor crayons. Gives a great zany look to this page that I really messed up. 

The other two are just the Winsor Newton markers. Trying to migrate to the From my Tombows because the colors are not fugitive.  I know I’m a few years when I open the journal the tombow pages will fade even closed in a book on a dark shelf. 

And I still have all these to color. 😳 Drawn with a Kuretake brush pen and carbon platinum black ink in a Strathmore mixed media 500 journal. 
Off to the gym. 

Margaret xoxox who is just hoping for rain from Hurricane Matthew. 

Yesterday’s post went to that other website that I really should delete when I figure out how. 

I drew this in the parking lot of the local goodwill store. 
Why you might ask?? BEcause I could sit and look in the vanity mirror. I know Wierd. But I did. 
Probably needs more flesh tones on the face. 
I lifted some of the hair color to make more strands. 

I probably should have stopped here. I was having fun adding dots of different colors. 

This is me with some dots added. And of course I was having too much fun so I didn’t stop here. 

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette. Mostly Daniel Smith and winsor Newton colors. Drawn with a Konrad Noodler in carbon platinum black ink in a Strathmore 400 watercolor journal. Great paper for lifting colors. 
Ttyl 
Margaret who made it to the gym. Did weights and elliptical and NOW I am tahred. 😘