Seems to be a trend lately. And reading books.
Margaret who almost forgot to post. Off to hot lanna tomorrow. Xoxoxo
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Day 2089 Chelsea
15×22″ Spent two and a half hours chasing Chelsea as she would turn from full frontal to the right. As soon as she relaxed a little she would loose the pose because she was twisted in her seat.
First break. NO pencil. 😵😵😵Rough block in on Co fluid watercolor paper. 140#. The paper is really a bargain for great paper. Six full sheets for $24 on amazon. Always dries just about flat no matter how soppy wet I get it. 
Second break not making a lot of progress. Adding more darks and the blouse. Lack of progress I think that was due to the continually rotating head. No excuse for that left eye. But an easy fix on this hp. Most hot press would not let you move it at all. One shot and you are done. 
Last break. That left eye shoot me. But I brought it around. Add more darks to the hair which was ultramarine and burnt umber or van dyke brown. Also I didn’t want to get the shadows dark since that would age her. She has quite a very young face. Deep shadows age people in portraits especially babies. For now. I have a to do to her list. May or may not do them. BYTW her blouse was painted in two shots with my size 16 Cheap Joes sable. First was a glaze of very watery cerulean and burnt sienna. Then after it was dry lines of the black hair mix.
Colors used Quin gold French yellow ochre burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine cerulean vandyke brown. A hint ifocad red light
Margaret ready for a nap. Xoxoxox
Day 2088 Tahred from road running
One last sketch from Columbia. Wait who am I kidding two more I haven’t painted. Oopsey.
Snuff jars from the museum. Hmm I wonder if they sell them on eBay. One could hope. Like rows of tiny gems. Two inches tall at most.
Think I will go back and draw some more of them sometime. Just love these tiny guys. And each so intricately decorated.
Charles Reid palette colors. Twisbee pen now leaky twisbee Deartrementis document brown.
Margaret putting her feet up. Xoxoxo
Day 2075 Back at the Museum
I loved these slightly primitive statues. So old.
Sketch in Deartrementis Brown with my Twisbee. The inks almost gone so next I will be using a Noodler Brown recommenced by Brenda Swenson.
Hahnemuhle journal yellow ochre cerulean cad red light cobalt burnt sienna ultramarine and a dab of quin gold.
I used a 2B pencil to write the info from the museum all over the background of this page to add texture and lightly erased it before I painted it.
Margaret who is book club tonite. Xoxoxo
Day 2070 Problems Problems
Decided to add this lady to my sketchbook as a memory page. 
She meets me at the back sliding door and peers thru the glass this way and that as if to say are you there. Where’s my breakfast??? It’s very funny.
Hahnemuhle Journal twisbee pen Charles Reid palette colors and Vlads neutral tint which is dioxzine purple indigo and burnt sienna.
Advantage of using his neutral tint or making your own is that you can shift it to blue purple or brown maki g it a flexible grey that Vlad never paints without it on his palette.
Miss squirrel earlier added some ground under her feet with the neutral tint so the nice highlights on them would show. And splattered it a bit with the neutral tint.
wouldn’t let me upload these pics yesterday. 😵😵😵
Seems I have run out of storage on WordPress. I either have to Del a lot of old photos which is oh so difficult to do or pay $200 more a year for unlimited storage. Groan.
wouldn’t let me upload this one either so added it today.
So while I am deciding I Del a lot of my friends nudes and I bet the pages look like Swiss cheese. Sorry friends and dear readers. I still love you.
Here’s the final painting again. Do wish I had left the metal strip on the side.
That freed up a little space.
wondering why I didn’t do this one but I think I will maybe on the opposite page.
Oh. Went to see Anne Hathaway’s new movie The Hustle. Funny well only occasionally. Best part was the French Riviera scenery the French music and Anne’s fabulous clothes.
Skip it and go see Poms. Much funnier.
Margaret In p189 of Redemption. Only 200+ pages to go.
Ttyl. Xoxoxo
Day 2068 got carried away
Watching out takes from Game of Thrones on YouTube – Game of thrones – funny moments part 11. There are at least 14 of them and most are very funny. 
I think I fixed Zoe. More or less. Hahnemuhle art journal burnt sienna alizarin mixed neutral tint of dioxzine purple burnt sienna and ultramarine. 
A big of cerulean shadows on fur. 
on her comfy throne 
A few Zoe pics. She always wears eye liner.
Margaret who has one more episode of out takes and am ready for bed. Xoxoxox
Day 2054 Strancone, Italy done!!! Onward!!!
At least for the monenbt. You never know. It’s subject to change right?! Until it’s framed.
Thinking tomorrow or Thursday will try the beach scene we did the sepia sketch of. Lost my focal point but I can fix it in the final one. Should have been in the middle.
Like this one. Sigh.
Think I will draw the scene while I listen to tv. Lol. Can’t watch and draw right.
Spent half the day looking for paint. How can I be out of cobalt van dyke brown AND dioxzine purple. This method of painting uses shovel loads of paint. Need to buy the BIG tubes not the 16″5 oz. shoulda added to my Blick order. Sigh.
I ordered these during class Sunday and here they are already.
I did get a set of Escoda perla brushes from amazon because I could NOT get my black velvets to dry brush. They split. 
If the perlas are good enough for Vlad, Iain Stewart and Joseph Zbukiv they are good enough for me. Suppose to make great calligraphic marks as well as do sweeping dry brush effects. Not a bad deal $30 for and 8 10 and a 12 travel brush Escoda perla Joseph Zbukiv Brand.
Homework from class. I couldn’t stand the tension of watching the battle this week in Game of Thrones. Eyes on paper. Eeekkk. Glad that episode is over. 
More homework from class. Supposedly if u draw two dots keep your pencil on left for eye on right dot you should get straight lines. Thinking not something to do during game of thrones or after four cups of high caffeine tea. Lol.
Margaret who has to make her clean bed first before she draws the scene so I can practice trees with my new brushes. Bet they will work on rocks too. Xoxoxo
Day 1893 BrEaKfaST
At New Moon. I know. Not my usual page but it’s fun. And I like it. That’s what counts right? It’s actually a journal page. My friend Tom and I blundered into the 10th Annual Hoofbeat Parade in downtown Aiken.
Only Aiken would have a horse parade with costumes.
I drew my late lunch at New Moon. Yummm. Their Downton mess Aiken style is sooo good. Pimento cheese which I always hated as a kid and grits and ham. Yummmy.
Anyway not what I intended to post. Been a crazy day. 
Bought a new sofa at laZy boy to go with my chair. This sofa is one I actually thought about buying when I bought my current den sofa. Oopsey. Should have saved the $$$ and bought it.
I was going to draw at lazy boy but no wait time. Oh well. Lots of interesting things to draw in that place.
And old furniture listed on Facebook and Craigslist so hopefully gone soon. Fielding inquiries. It’s priced to move it out ASAP.
Margaret Xoxoxoxo putting her feet up and coloring in her book.
Day 1742 Inktober
I have been doing inktober aka 31 ink sketches. Question is do you make it to the finish line of one ink drawing a day?!!!
I threw one of those strips in my purse before I went to Costco. 
Sat down at the restaurant area and put my satchel purse up on the table to hide behind. Parking yourself somewhere with a good site line to streams of people is always a good idea when doing these. 
Started drawing with my Namiki Fude pen-love it’s thick thin lines. I tried to finish it at Lowe’s today BUT huge trucks thought they needed to be close to the door and blocked my view. 🤨
Pretty soon I had a whole strip done. I ended up at the Walmart grocery store because they always have a good flow of people going in and out.
Be brave and go to Costco or sams and draw the herds of people that walk by. Lotsa fun.
Margaret xoxoxox hanging out with a friend who is heading back to Charleston tomorrow.
Day 1296 Magic Time Finally
This post was stuck in my scheduled posts box. I don’t know if I posted but it’s such a great post can’t hurt posting again.
Watching Charles Reid paint a person is like watching someone make magic. He twitches his brush here and here. 
Stating at the nose suddenly there’s a fabulous painting of a person.
John was our model today. He did a wonderful job.
Charles painting. 
The Master Charles Reid the most talented watercolorist in America today.
My sketch.
Painting
More painting.
Charles said time to quit so I did and I started another of John. Let ok’ing at him he needs more shadow on his cheek to define his cheek bone. Maybe a highlight lifted also on the cheek and more shadow in his brow.
John and his Jack Russell Jedi.
We all adored Jedi 
Especially me. Missing my Zoe. 
One more of Jedi and his dad John.
My second drawing. I had about forty five minutes left to paint him.
Progress.
Times up. Hmm think he needs more hair but I like this one best of the two paintings.
Up to the rooftop the rain had ended.
A tugboat heading up river.
Night on the river
A paddle boat passing by while I waited for my car.
Look who decided to jump in bed with me tonite. My friend Karen’s collie Carly. What a sweetheart.
Tomorrows model Carver whose mom looks like Madonna.
Nite nite. Margaret xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 