Three times is the charm they say! Wordpress keeps eating my post today. These were all drawn on site at the Key West Wildlife center. I counted at least 8-10 pages of ibis sketches.
Stay tuned tomorrow for painting details. Want to be sure WordPress behaves before I write one more long post.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
my sons English fox hound mix rescue is spending some time with his grandma.
All the drawings are app. 6×12. If you are interested in having me draw your dog email me at m c m h u nt @ me. Com
Wesley Noodler Creaper Ahab Platinum carbon Black ink.
All the drawings are app. 6×12. If you are interested in having me draw your dog email me at m c m h u nt @ me. Com
Every Monday I try to win the Goulet Pen giveaway. Every Tuesday I DONT!! Reminds me of when I buy a lottery ticket. Lol.
I suppose I did actually win because I like these sketches a lot. And I like to draw dogs a lot. Wesley was a very cooperative subject as he snoozed on the sofa chaise on top of a quilt.
One relaxed dog. Noodler Konrad with Lexington Grey Ink.
I usually start by drawing the spine and the top of the head a modified contour drawing. I also bear down on the pen like I did on his legs to make a variety of lines.
You have to love a Noodler Flex Nib pens ability to do that. All the lines on the first three pics were done with a Noodler Flex Nib. It works simalarly to a dip pen and usually not quite the mess.
The first two drawings were colored with the Noodler pens. I smudged the ink with my finger as I went.
Did I say he likes to sleep!? Noodler Konrad with Lexington Grey Ink. This one is just cross hatched. I left light areas to give an effect of the shine on his black fur.
Dogs can sleep for hours and just rearrange giving you new drawing opportunities. This one was the first one I drew. Done with a Pentel brush pen. His jaw was a little too wide so I started over again this time with a Noodler pen which allows me more control. Sometimes it takes a few sketches of a new dog to get him down pat just like it does when you draw a new model.
The sketches are posted in the reverse order that I drew them. Wesley’s head is the last one I drew of him.
Back to key West sketches tomorrow. I think I drew enough while I was there to post for the rest of the month. Lol. Hmm maybe I should save some of them for while I am in Paris?!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret ️xxx
As we sadly left the Keys we made a return trip to Buzzards Roost on Key Largo. I drew this as we waited for our order to arrive. As usual the service was not super though our waitress was an overworked sweetheart (too many tables) this time but the view was still gorgeous!!!
The view
Drawn with my Noodler Creaper loaded with Platinum Carbon Black ink.
The food was amazing this trip. We ate Mahi Mahi wraps. Oh my gosh it was sooo good. We both kept the second half of our sandwich for dinner. Sadly we ended up throwing it out since we never ate dinner that nite. Nobody wants tomaine poisoning on a four hundred mike drive.
I also sketched the marine at Garden cove. This was our view from our table minus the bank of flowers across the edge. 
Here it painted. The yellow in the palms and on the boats is Quin gold. I like the glow it gives to the shadows on the boats.
If a storm had not been blowing in I could sit here for hours drawing and enjoying the view. Garden Cove is just a gorgeous place. A piece of Heaven!!
A year and 25 days now of consecutive blogging.
Buzzards Roost on Key Largo. The restaurant has an amazing view of Garden Cove out to the Atlantic or is it the Florida Straits?! Eating out on the covered deck is hard to beat surrounded by beautiful, water boats and amazing flowers.
We actually ate there twice. The first time was coconut shrimp. Fried a little too long to suit my taste. I like my shrimp fried in three and a half minutes period. The second meal was much better. 
Otherwise they start to get tough. It was still good not great. The staggering view more than made up for the lack of superior food and so so wait staff.
Stay tuned tomorrow for more Buzzards Roost sketching and food
About the watercolor : all the water was painted wet on wet. Palm Trees were painted light yellow and allowed to dry. Touches of Quin gold were added. They were then painted w a variety of greens and Inathradone blue for the darks.
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Margaret ️xxx
Duval Street – $150 app 8×40″ Heavy Stonehenge paper
I actually drew this one after I drew the chickens. I was so hot I sat in the Starbucks on Duval drawing passersby.
I tried to give them a tropical feel. Crowds on Duval do not look like an Atlanta crowd or the denizens of my favorite cafe Inner Bean or customers running into Earthfare.
Tank tops tshirts short shorts sunglasses and flip flops are the order of the day. Chickens use the crosswalks and palms line the road.
I tried to use bright tropical colors to give a tropical feel to this long strip.
It was not the best vantage point to see people to sketch quickly. They went by TOO quickly. Mere seconds.
TIP: This was drawn with a Pentel brush pen. I actually have two brush pens because drawing these strips use up the ink. Hate to run out while drawing a strip.
I generally start with the shoulders and next the head.
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Margaret ️xxx
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