I know a lot of you are Reading them. Mike my cohort in crime. We are already signed up for Charles Reid’s class next May 2017!!  

LInda is a repeat offender too. She took Fealin Lins class lay May and is taking Charles Reids with us next May. She’s taken Ted’s class five times. 

The Inferno movie with Jamie Wyeth painting was awesome. Watch it. On Vimeo. Free like YouTube. 

Kevin and Harvie Anne from Moultrie or is it Albany. Somewhere in South Georgia. Harvie Anne looks just like her. Kevin not so much. So I had another go at him. 

Miss Mike again. What can I say she sat right in front of me to my right. Prime sketch territory. No Idea how that grey got on her cheek. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Keep coming. I wrote more than twenty pages I think. The sketch of the Doctor is spot on. I think the blonde lady’s  name was Nancy. I think. 

I only drew people on the front row or people standing in front of Teds paintings. A captive audience is easy to sketch because they hold still Listening!!! Try it next time u r in a meeting. 

And I had a lot of fun painting the notes. My grandson Henry painted with me. A painting of the cabin for his mom for Mother’s Day. 

I also used my Winsor Newton watercolor Markers on them. And then washed them out. There’s alot of pigment in those markers.  

Love the way he frames his art. He floats them on mat board. And then uses another mat to frame them.  I need some miracle muck – the glue he uses to hold the paintings on the mat. And he only uses light frames. No black no gold. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

My friend Karen from Savannah. Karen is a fabulous painter. She took Fealin Lins class with us last year. 

People travel far and near for the great classes at Cheap Joes. One lady came all the way from Hawaii. 

Another sketch of Karen. I like the sketches. I think they liven up the notes.

 Christine has taken three classes with Ted. I know why. 

I would love to take another with him. He’s just a super teacher giving everything he knows when he teaches. 
Notes. I really need to look up all these artists if I just quit painting long enough to do that!! 

Anne from Washington State. Also a long distance traveler. 
Thanks for Reading. 
Margaret xxx

Inscrutable wins again in the juried Aiken Art Guild show!! Hurrah. 

A blue ribbon in the Portraiture/Figurative category. YEAH!!! 

Thanks for reading 
Margaret xxx

Finally finished painting my notes. So will share them with you the next few days.  I tried to use every color I had and then I splattered the pages without sketches. And sometimes I splattered the sketches too. 

How to paint shadows. 

I kept working on Jan. For some reason I forgot to paint her upper arm the first go round. Duh.  And I think splattering improved everything. 

To splatter I just made a soupy color and slung it off my brush. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx who thinks she might be over the crud. I hope!! 

A sketch I did of him during class and painted later with sloppy dots of course. 

Some food for thought from Mr Nuttall. 

A few pages of my notes. 

I got a little carried away painting them with watercolors. 

His palette 

And yes drawing is critical. Something to practice daily. I usually do. 

Stay tuned for more Ted. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Joes rude have been driving me Crazy for the last two hours. 

This is how they started out. Looking two different directions. 

And then iris  were two different sizes.  Oops. Bad drawing on my part. Should have hacked my drawing first. Sigh. 

As al says don’t mess up to have to fix it. Start right. It’s a lot easier. 

So I lifted the iris and moved it only to realize that oops the ruse were two different shaped. Huh?!  

So now they are almost the same. Waiting for it to dry. 

I thought about doing what my grandmother famously did to this pastel she did. She messed the eye up. So she drew another, cut it out and glued it on over the mess. Nobody ever notices!! 

I didn’t eat dinner. Guess it’s time. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx 

pI hope you all had as nice a mothers Day as I did. I spent a lot of time yesterday working on my class notes from Ted Nuttalls class. I had fun painting my classmates.  Some old friends and 

And some new ones. I also had fun painting my notes with Teds transparent colors. LOVE Those. 

Hopefully they will be done soon. I almost filled up a Strayhmore 400 watercolor book with them. That’s a lot of notes. Now looking pretty and perky with watercolor highlights and at least ten sketches of my class mates. 

Thanks for looking. 

Margaret xxx

A day early!! I will be traveling on Motjers Day and didn’t want to forget to wish everyone a Happy Mothers Day. 
WIP – Barbara – #300 Arches Hot press watercolor paper 

Barbara was 92 when I took her picture. She was the sweetest lady. Her family misses her a lot. 

I really love all the soft colors under her chin. I think they are delicious. 

Thought you might like to see her evolve. 

This is after two very thin washes. And of course I used Ted Nuttalls Transparent colors.  

The first wash on Lucy June. I forgot to take a pic of Barbara at this stage. 
The thin washes are the key to a painting like this. You can always add more color but it’s hard to remove it. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx