My friend, and fellow studio 1482er, Veronica Lawlor and I went to draw at the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon blow up last night. Â It was buzzing, as usual. Â The kids love it. Â They scream out every name of every balloon as they go by. Â Katy Tur from NBC News interviewed us while we […]
View post →The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be coming up in a few days. Â I thought it would be fun to post a page of drawings I made a few years ago on the eve of the parade. Â I tried to draw Spider Man from as many different angles as I could. Â It’s fun to […]
View post →Another watercolour version of a Joshua Tree. I think maybe this one feels the most like upraised arms in the middle of the desert . Margaret
View post →For Maureen: Friend classmate fearless bright strong spirit Always reaching for the sky Always in our hearts We miss you We love you. Margaret
View post →Another watercolor from the Joshua Tree National Park in California. Â This one is vertical! The Mormons named the joshua tree after Joshua in the bible who raised his hands to the sky in prayer. It is also known as izote de desierto. Margaret Hurst
View post →Another in the series of drawings/watercolors from Joshua Tree National Park in California. Margaret Hurst
View post →Another watercolor/drawing of the joshua trees at the Joshua Tree National Park, definitely one of my favorite places to go to and draw and watercolor and photograph and just be with nature. Margaret
View post →“I believe that in the indeterminacy of drawing, the contingent way that images arrive in the work, lies some kind of model of how we live our lives. Â The activity of drawing is a way of trying to understand who we are and how we operate in the world.” –William Kentridge identity Thinking with hands […]
View post →Carousel painting/drawing. Margaret Hurst
View post →I drew the cpdsa skaters again in Central Park. Â This time I drew them with two hands. Â I’m thinking that that is a more logical and artistic approach to the roller skaters movements and actions. Â It felt more comfortable to me than drawing them with one hand; I could accomplish more with two handed drawing […]
View post →SUPERMAN? Yes, Superman…he came flying around the cpdsa skate circle like a bat outta hell, faster than a speeding bullet… Â Draw, I said to myself, draw! Â I drew. Â Wow, that was cool! Â Superman just came around the circle laying on his side and balancing on one leg! Â Only Superman can do that I thought. Â I […]
View post →These two roller skaters are at the CPDSA circle every time I’ve been there. Â They dance alone or with other skaters, but when they dance with each other it is truly beautiful. Â They glide in and out of each other; blending and parting, parting and blending. Â Her knee will go up and out as he […]
View post →This is one of many  watercolor/caran d’ache/pen and ink drawings I’ve made at the CPDSA circle in Central Park.  I was sitting on the ground getting an ant’s eye view of the skaters, so I decided to make the drawing about the skates and legs of the skaters.  A little pen and ink, a little […]
View post →July 4 on St. John in the US Virgin Islands, is Carnival Parade Day! Â I was down there for my class reunion and we were all watching the parade when the Mocko Jumbies appeared! Â I felt like I was back in grade school watching the St. Thomas Carnival Parade under the arches across from the […]
View post →A somewhat odd situation: Â an unhappy, angry woman encountering a self-satisfied, smug individual at the Italian Pavilion in Epcot. Â There were no words exchanged, just an overwhelming, radiating air of hostility and entitlement growing and undulating between the two. By the end of it I wasn’t sure who was the hostile one and who was […]
View post →No one, absolutely NO ONE, has seen this drawing, or this series of drawings before today. Â My very talented friend and associate, Veronica Lawlor, is out in Portland, Oregon, today teaching at an Urban Sketchers drawathon. Â She had a conversation with Frank, a fellow urban sketcher who loves drawing, and so I wanted to send […]
View post →Tea Cups at Disney. Â This is a ride you don’t want to take on a full stomach! Â I thought I could handle it, but I was zig zaging around the park after that fateful ride. Â I don’t know what makes me think I can keep getting on these rides that turn me upside down and […]
View post →Lady Kika strikes again…this time she’s a Cretan seductress! Totally different feeling in this outfit…sensuous  and all curves. Delightful! Margaret
View post →This is a drawing of Wonder Woman, aka KIKA! Â What a lovely, spirited and imaginative model to draw! Â I was trying out a new medium, some various shaped “tools” with different shaped rubber endings that you smoosh around in whatever color you want, sort of like putting on eye shadow or or a little color […]
View post →This is a drawing/watercolor I made when I took a trip out to Joshua Tree National Park in California, one of the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen. Â What a challenge to draw…huge slabs of rock, and in this particular scene, a few sparse pieces of vegetation. Â It is so monumental that I said […]
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