Lucy June aged 90 Painting done Thursday. I really like her knitted scarf. 
The palette. Most of the colors are Winsor Newton or Holbein though I substituted Daniel Smith Quin gold. 

Ted chose these colors because they are transparent watercolor. And NO not all watercolor is transparent. Cerulean isn’t. Both he and Jean Dobie limit their palettes to those colors that are transparent which allows their watercolors to have a great depth of color done with multiple layers. If they were not transparent the colors would turn to mud. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

I have always doodled while sitting in meetings. Yesterday I took it to a new level drawing anyone who was sitting at an angle to me. Of course I started with the teacher. 

Then I drew a class member Jan. And interspersed her sketch with more notes. 

Next up Anne Peck a sweet lady from Washington state. And yes there was one lady from Hawaii. Mari won the prize for the longest trip. 

Karen 

I never quite finished painting this sketch. I was using the leftovers on my palette from the days painting.  I never quite got

The brown streaks in her hair. 

This is the colors we are using.  Really love using just straight transparent watercolor. 

Christine. Her fourth Ted class!! 

Really enjoyed flipping thru my notes looking at the sketches of my classmates. I think it will be a great memory. 

Another sketch of Karen. Sorry Karen I made you too fat.

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

One of the Hemingway Papas ready to fight the bulls Key West style. 

WIP

Off to dinner. More about these later. 

A 93 year old retired teacher. 

And Cheap Joes. Always a treat to be at Cheap Joes. Spring is still in full blossom here and I can’t say enough about how wonderful the people are Cheap Joes are. We even had a visit from the head sweety himself Joe just the nicest guy. 
Treat yourself to one of their fabulous classes. You can not go wrong. 

Our teacher 

Drawn during lecture and painted with leftover watercolor paint. 

And it’s Ted Nuttall time. This is his sketch. 

Beginning the painting. 

Rainbow girl

Mr Nuttallstarting the features 

Teds Palette. He only uses transparent watercolor NO Opaque colors like cerulean. 

Scary stuff but I started. 

Really getting on my nerves that I think I am Posting on this site and somehow it keeps ending up on that other Wierd site that I never used til recently. And that was a total accident. So I am posting this again. Sigh. 


Since I have been sick I have sat in the living room a lot more. My dog honey is much more visible there so she’s getting drawn. She hangs out in the window or sprawls on the rug. 

When we sit in the Den shes usually in her big comfy bed behind the sofa. 
These were drawn with my Boodler Creaper ahab, carbon platinum black ink In a superaquabee tablet. 

I stated this page with the middle dog. And it did not go well as you can see. So I thought papers messed up keep drawing and got the really good head on the right. The one on the left is good too except for The mess in the middle. 
I am Posting this to show even if you can draw things just go wrong sometimes.  
Keep sketching.
Thanks for reading 
Margaret xxx

Emily. 24×30 acrylic  B

About a hour and a half painting.  The background still needs work but I like the figure. Was good to be back with the Saturday morning painters. More than a month between being out of town and sick. 

Beginnings 

The background is a hardboard I had been smearing leftover palette paint on for a couple of months. Tough to draw a figure on because the colors kept on changing across the background. 

What was I thinking?! And of course it still needs some taming because it competes with the figure. 

Colors Nicole Azo gold, pyrrole red, titanium white, green gold, violet and ultramarine blue. That’s it. You don’t have to own every tube in the paint store. I seem to use the same 6-8 colors. 

Emily at second break. 80 min 
Emily at the first forty minute break. A lot of painting in that short period. 

The start. 

I thought using this wild background was going to be hopeless but I kept at it. 

I kept having to change the color of the line I was using to draw her. 

Not something you want to do when you haven’t done life modeling in a month and still feeling off.  

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx who’s trying to make believe she’s well but was told she looked a little green still. 

I posted these twice last nite only to see them eaten. Sigh. All the colors how I painted it. So ma

Stopping here. No idea where it evaporated too. Night!! 

Sketching at the local Toyota dealership today while the Prius is tuned up. The guy said it would take an hour to an hour and a half. When I got out I told him to be sure to fumigate after he took my car back. The sinus rage on. My car was done in half An hour!! And I was actually enjoying sketching there. Lots of sketch fodder. Dare I go back and just sketch? 

Before I forget.  I discovered this website Tuesday and been reading it a lot. Interview with modern American painters. Discussions on color which should not be missed. http://paintingperceptions.com/ken-kewley-writings-on-color/ an excellent seven pages on color and painting and abstraction. Very eye opening. 

Loved sketching this salesman as he did his sales dance. I think he could make a great strip. 

This guy walked off.  I thought I had been discovered but I found out why he left later. It’s funny how much you learn about other people when you sit and observe and draw them. 

This aGI was five feet from me at most. He never noticed me drawing him because he was so engrossed in his phone. And he crossed his legs. Decided I like that look better than the first legs down sketch so I changed them. 

Found the reader In spot of sunshine charging his device. There was a chair in front of him so I could not see his feet or second leg. 

I smudged his eye.  Needs a touch of white gel pen.

The GI stopped slouching so I drew him again. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx whose trying to pretend to be well but thinks it’s nap time. 

From whence the crud came. I will get this painted sooner or later. If I get it done soon I will post it. In the meantime I have a class with Ted Nuttall at Cheap Joes starting Monday. Get the gone crud!

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxxx

But it seems to have disappeared. 

 My cat and Jack Russell seem to think I am a pillow. I wonder why. 

The virus drags on though I think I am a bit better. Maybe I thought I posted yesterday and coughed it somewhere else? 

Noodler Konrad Dartrementis brown and Noodler creaper with platinum carbon black ink. 

I did mean to add a bit of color to these.   Other than black pen I didn’t. Soon I hope. This monochromatic world grows tiresome. 

I did spend a while on air Bnb plotting a return to Paris soon. Found some wonderful places. One with a view of the Eiffel Tower from the bed. What a sight to fall asleep to!  Several ground floor and all quite reasonable. Waiting for my brain to clear before I jump in but fall in Paris is looking good. 

And you know I will be drawing and painting while I am there!! Excitement. 

Au revoir! 

Merci beaucoup! 

Margaret xxx whose starting French as soon as the crud is gone!