Day 462 more Best of Augusta

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I forgot to mention that I was sketching with my friend Ruth Pearl again like at arts in the hearts. Always a lot of fun drawing with her.  

  PHillip Lee and a friend. I can’t remember his name but when they aren’t singing at clubs you will find them singing at Wesley United Methodist Church on Sundays. 

This is actually the last sketch I did of Phillip. Done with a Noodler Konrad  with carbon Pltinum black ink. Better but not great.  Usually I love my Noodler pens but NOT last nite.  
Another sketch of Phillip with the Konrad.   
This was the one that made me put up the a Noodler Creaper. Oops what was I thinking? A warm up right?! 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 461 -Best of Augusta

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And a  good excuse to add to the Inktober sketches. Best of Augusta is the restaurants and musicians who were voted best in the Augusta  Magazine and is held annually in Sacred Heart- the old Catholic Church I drew about a month ago. 

I drew at least a dozen sketches last nite. These are two of the audience members.  

A lady in the audience enjoying the music. I loved her Hair and the hat. Done with my Pentel brush pen. 

The shading was smeared because using just the black ink would be too dark. Think she would be fun to paint but I am getting way behind on the painting. 😳  
 

This man was in the queue to get beer. Then he sat down right behind me. 😜 I drew him with my new Noodler Creaper ahab but was having problems. So after a few sketches I switched to the Pentel brush pen and my drawings were much better. 

   
Sacred Heart 

 
Inside Sacred Heart

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 458 – Zoe

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Zoe Pentel brush pen in Superaquabee tablet 

It’s not easy to draw an all white FLUFFY Jack Russel with black ink. Her fur is very wispy with a Mohawk down her back and bushy eyebrows. Impossible to draw those bushy white eyebrows with black ink. Zoe is a broken coat which means she has long hair AND short hair.  An extra challenge. 

Then there is her muzzle with black nose and lips and white hair with dots and a greyish cast. 😜 another inky challenge!! 
So I started shading which was done by smearing ink with my fingers before it dried completely. The ink is permanent so if you wait to long it won’t move on most paper. 

A redraw with my other non waterproof Pentel brush pens could be fun but we are off to the Magnolia cemetery ghost walk one of the most haunted spots in Augusta GA and the Hispanic festival. Hoping for lots of opportunities for sketching and photos for paintings!! And NO rain. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 457 – My Diebenkorn

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Erica WIP 20×30 painted this morning at life modeling session at USC Aiken. She still needs a lot of work I think. Like fixing her saggy right Tata. I am also not enamoured of the greyish flesh color. And twitch her mouth to the left a bit. 
  
Richard Diebenkorn in his studio from an old Horizons magazine. 

 We have been studying Richard Diebenkorn who was an abstract expressionist and a Bay Area painters an influential west coast group starting in the 50s. 
A Beginners guide to Diebenkorn at 

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/richard-diebenkorn-beginner-guide from his recent retrospective at the British Royal Academy.  

 Coffee by Diebenkorn. 

  
Diebenkorn. Don’t know the title. It is  more similar to my painting I color. 

  
 
Diebenkorn Don’t know the title. 

  Bay Area painter Nathan Oliviera love the way it seems to fly. 

I would love to try Oliviera’s style but I don’t know where you would start. More about Oliviera http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/november/nathan-oliveira-obit-111710.html

Other Bay Area painters are Elmer Bischoff, Thiebaud, David Parks and Thiopolis Brown. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 456 -Inktober continues

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Sometimes you need a do over. I actually drew this street cafe in Aiken twice. This is number two. I started drawing the horse first with my Lamy vista fine point but it would not draw.  Which is why it looks so scratchy. The ink would not flow. I threw in the towel and used the Noodler Konrad loaded with Platinum Carbon black ink. 

  It was going well till I smeared the eyes of the lady on the right.  Oops.  I used a white gel pen to try to fix them. I also could have used gouache and painted the scene but have not had time. It might help if I stayed home.  

 

  
Actually the first drawing.  So why else did I redraw?! Terrible eyes. And things in the wrong places.   I ran out of room for the horse.  Ooops!! 

  

  
Here is the photo the sketch is based on. That’s it for today from the river where the water is still muddy but behaving staying in its banks.  Something to be thankful for in the state or South Carolina- a river that does not flood.  

Thanks for reading. 
Margaret xxx

Day 454 – inky month

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Really like this sketch with one blot in my copy book. The guys head. Oooopsss.  

 I actually rearranged the people at the inner bean to fill up my sketch. I started with the girl on the left and then the guy. The other two ladies were actually sitting behind him. Decided to move them. My guy needed company. 

 
This was drawn Monday in class while I waited for the teacher. I like her though I think both of these will look better when I paint them. 

   

 Spent the day hiking all over Aiken looking for pictures to paint.  I cajoled Adrian into modeling on the bench downtown.  She’s a pretty girl. 

And what’s not to love about a pile of hats?!! 

  
And fr the postman NOT to look at the camera and act like he was working. 

  
The parish hall at St Thaddeus where I stood in an ant hill taking photos.  

   I mean you look UP not down dont u?!

  Itch itch itch. 

  
Something about the guy and his truck. Maybe the shadows?! Or all that red yellow and orange?! 

 Thanks for reading. 

Margaret who is ready for a nap xxxx

Day 453 -That Poweful Portrait 

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All done but the signing.

Professor Al said it was PoWeRfUL?!! 😋👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻   Did I say hurrah?! That’s a major statement coming from Al Beyer. Maybe I should do more self portraits.  After all we are out cheapest model!!  

 The start – like a contour drawing. No exactness. 
 Have to say it really doesn’t look a lot like me but I wasn’t striving for a likeness. I was actually pushing it to the dark side. My hair was wild which usually it’s a lot calmer. I fluffed it up for the photo. Beethoven has nothing on me. 

  Underway using complimentary colors. 

My nose is nowhere near that long but the slash of white was fun. As was darkening the smile lines and the bags under the eyes. 

 Time for the background

 Also great fun adding zings of red and green here and there.  A lot of the red was done with the end of my paint brush dipped in the cad red light. All the purple was made with alizarin and phtalo blue. You can’t get a nice purple with phtalo blue and cad red. You get more of a brown. Not what I had in mind. 

  Oops lost the hair on the right. 

One more note. This was painted with large hog bristle brushes-flats 10&12 and slashes with a 6. 

Next up a 32×48″ painting of ta da.  Drum roll please!!  

 
I made my sister pose for me when she was baking Friday. Should be interesting. Largest thing I have painted in years. 

And darn. I left my Inktober sketchbook in the car yesterday. Duh!! 

  
Report from the Savannah.  

 The river is up from all the rain in the upstate but the rain is gone and the sun is out!!  All is good in the CSRA!

Up tomorrow – catching up on Inktober. Actually two sketches in the car. Color me too lazy to run down stairs and get them when I am leaving anyway in a bit. My house is on stilts like a beach house so LOTS of stairs. Three stories of them. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret glad to have survived the eminent doom of a catastrophic flood!! Nope Noah never showed up!!

XXX M on the Savannah River