Is where I have been for the last four days. Home now.
I don’t know which I like better – being in the beautiful Western North Carolina mountains OR Home!!
These are all done with acrylics used like watercolor on a base of crumpled white tissue paper glued down with polymer gel.
A lot of fun to play with. Let me know if one of them needs to come live at your house.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
A fun double page spread. I drew the figures almost under the table cloth at our meeting. I was just in a mood to draw.
Our President Susan Salisbury
Then I decided to add my nonwinning raffle tickets which I painted blue. Their original white color would have been boring. And I added a napkin with some washi tape. I do love washi tape. I only buy it when I get it on sale.
A sketch of our auctioneer Ken Elliot and his two helpers. I guess you can tell it was St Patricks Day. Should have posted this a while ago.
Augusta Area Newcomers Club is a great club for people who have just retired or are new to the area. Lots of group activities from Wine Night, Bunco, Bridge, Movie Club, Out to Lunch and a lot more. Something for everyone. Once a year we have a big silent auction at the Country Club that raises thousands of dollars for a charity.
Check it out!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Ranunculus 16×20 Acrylic FOR SALE Also finished Tuesday.
Recently bought some gorgeous white ranunculus at Costco and had to hurry up and paint them before they died. They started dropping and dripping petals the morning after I finished them.
Colors used artist grade Golden and Liquitex Cerulean,Titanium white, Dioxzine Purple, Cobalt, Cad Yellow light, alizarin.
TIP : Artist grade paints are important. Been reading a book about acrylic paints. Student grade can have styrene and other plastics than the polymer that is used in artist grade. What does that mean. The plastic can shatter!! 👀 Like an old plastic toy left in the yard it will shatter.
Artist grade paint does not.
Some interesting ranunculus trivia from Wikipedia. They are all toxic including the common buttercup. “When Ranunculus plants are handled, naturally occurring ranunculin is broken down to form protoanemonin, which is known to cause contact dermatitis in humans and care should therefore be exercised in extensive handling of the plants.[6] The toxins are degraded by drying, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe.”
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Rhineharts 10×15″ Watercolor on Crescent watercolor board
Done and ready for delivery. I think I gave a sigh of relief Repainting this successfully. You just never know with watercolor if you will mess it up or not. Thank goodness I didn’t.
I had to do it over because the original was in my sketchbook and it was drawn across two pages. Would I have cut that one out and sell it to Rhineharts?! Sure would but hard to frame it when it’s in two pieces.
So a redo was in order.
Here’s the ink sketch. I actually used pencil first and let it dry a while before I erased it. No ink smears on this one.
The Rhineharts Masters Week tshirt. A bit darker than the original!
While it dried I did some last minute shopping before Masters Madness descends full blown on this town.
I got home about five and it was painted in time to sit down and enjoy Grantchester on Masterpiece Mystery. Really enjoy that show.
The shirt on display at the restaurant
Back to the painting – it’s painted on crescent watercolor board. Heavy stuff.
Colors used – Sky cerulean, building Winsor yellow with grey made from cerulean and burnt sienna or yellow ochre. Roof has the same colors with Inathrodone for darks. Trim is marine blue with viridian. Blacks are Inathrodone and burnt sienna or burnt umber.
Trees are burnt umber and Inathrodone for trunks. Inathrodone, viridian, yellow ochre and green apatite. White gouache for lights.
Thanks for reading. Get your shirt at Rhineharts.
Margaret xxx
One of the things we love about Costco is the snacks. Of course we all know there are NO calories in the snacks if you eat them there. Lol. So after a walk thru of Costco with heavy snacks I decided to draw all the ones I ate.
This is what I had when I left. I sat at the snack bar tables and sketched it before I forgot some of this deliciousness.
Drawn on Strathmore 500 Mixed Media with Carbon Black ink. Noodler Konrad pen.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
WordPress continues to cause problems.
The Bottoms at Looking Glass Falls Mt Pisgah, Blue Ridge Parkway. For Sale.
Finished this full sheet (20″x30″) watercolor yesterday. It languished in the corner for about two years almost done. Really pleased with the way it turned out. 
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No idea what the colors are its been so long. 👀🙄
I did lift some whites around the people and on a few trees with the Mr Clean Eraser and my erasing shield. Scrub scrub scrub and there’s white. I also used a dab of white gouache just to be sure.
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Margaret who hopes WordPress posts this because it didn’t yesterday. 🙄
Really loving this sketch of PonceCity Market Szechuan Restaurant. Love the dragon. Strathmore 500 watercolor paper carbon platinum black ink in carbon fine tip pen.
Repainting the tshirt sketch as promised. Hope to deliver it Tuesday to Rhineharts.
Letting the ink dry so no smears on it. Ink smears are so annoying and so unpredictable. A kin to letting paint dry!!!
I usually don’t use pencil but since it’s a redo of the original sketch which has a split page from the sketchbook it’s a necessity if the restaurant is to have it.
The sketchbook.
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Margaret xxx
So once again I posted this on the wrong blog. I really have to delete the other one. Sigh. Hurrah!! It’s deleted. No more posting on it accidentally.
😃When I am home that means I have been sketching and painting at the life modeling session that Prof Al Beyer had at USC Aiken. Pleased with my sketch today.
Ilenia 20×30″. Acrylic
I will probably add some more purple to her left side. I had more but painted it out. In the rush of an hour and a half of drawing and painting sometimes u just run out of time.
Probably change the red on her cheeks. I think it’s a bit much. But better than the purple I had on her cheeks to start with. I left it in Aiken so I would get a fresh look at it Monday and not be able to torture her all weekend painting her at home.
The background could use some work too. It’s just some ultramarine blue that I scrubbed on with a paper towel when it spilled in my paint box. I finally just let it dry instead of cleaning it up. What a mess that was.
Colors used titanium white, nickel Azo gold, pyrrole red and dioxzine purple. Burnt umber for hair. Cad yellow yellow ochre and a bit of Green gold in the drapery.
Thanks for reading!
Margaret
Waiting at the Waffle House. 36×36″ Acrylic
These paintings are off to the Anderson Arts Center Show hopefully to be juried in to participate.
The Major aka Dad 30×40″
The show has many cash prizes with first prize being $2000. Wouldn’t that be a nice down payment on a trip to France?! There’s a long list of prizes. The show is a big deal. I will let you know dear reader what I think after I go April 16. Wish me luck!!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Sold a painting to Rhineharts that will be on their Masters Week shirt. How exciting is that. I know stacks will be sold that week.
The shirt pocket
I sat out front of Rhineharts waiting for my high school friends Peggy and Karen. We are all excited to be on the shirt!!
Yesterday I got in Charles Reid’s class at Cheap Joes. It fills the instant its released. My friend Mike and I got one of the 16 places. Now to contain our excitement til May 2017!!!😳😃
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
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