If you are doing laundry Tom is sure to show up seeming to materialize from thin air…how does he know there is fabric fun to be had?!! He will hide in the sheets or towels everytime and walks off in disgust if you dare to fold them up.

Watercolor in a Moleskine …dont buy one the paper has changed and is nasty now!

Zoe and Tom frequently jockey for position with mom….who said a Jack Russell hates cats??!

Tom sleeping on his favorite thing…a quilt!

Quick sketches of Tom as he rolled around on a nearby rug.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Margaret xxx

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The thing about dogs is they are always curled up nearby ready for you to draw…and another good thing about drawing them is that when they cross the rainbow bridge as sweet Bear did recently you have lots of great sketches that the owner can remember him with….

ink on cardstock

And when they sleep they dont move alot…they just rearrange and head back off into dream land.

Unlike kids and people who IF they are awake are GOING to move!!!

PS a little color on a black and white sketch goes a long way.

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Margaret xxx

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Indeed. Posting these so you can see that I too mess up sketches. Everybody does. 
This switch can be cropped so it looks ok. It was going fine tilHenry  decided to move yesterday morning. 

And I got his leg to small. I was so annoyed I didn’t try to finish or fix it. 

Zoe turned out a little better but have you ever tried to draw. Dog chewing on a rawhide. They don’t hold still. At least lot their head or their paws. What was I thinking. 

Then Henry sat up and leaned on his daddy’s legs doe two seconds. Just long enough to mess up another piece of paper. 

Then I thought gesture sketch of Drew  and Livia.  Not bad but I couldn’t see his feet. And Drew never holds still. 

Off to French conversation class. Parlez vous francaise?

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret xxx

After an energetic weekend with the grandkids age two and four adorable but oh so busy the dogs and I are taking it easy.  Well at least after loads of laundry sheets and towels from swimming in the pool a laps of dishes several trash bags out and toys picked up and floors moped and vacuumed plus walls scrubbed with Mr cleans we are taking the rest  of the day off. 

Honey hopeful as usual. Dogs are so much easier to draw then people. They hold a pose or return to it soon if you wait. 
That’s it for tonite. 

See ya Manana. 

Margaret xxxx

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Been working on this view of the Oconoluftee River. Once again the foliage was not cooperating. Nor was the river despite saving my whites. 

I tried adding more darks to the foliage and Thalo blue to the river. 

Did it help? What do you think??  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret who is having a busy day -splash pads, play grounds and swimming pools. 

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I sometimes if anyone is out in blog land on Friday nites. I almost didn’t make it here myself. Family visiting and I meant to do this post this am. Oops. 

I completely redid this one. Still not wild about the foliage but I like the rest of it better. I actually scratched the grass in with an old pair of fiskars scissors because I couldn’t find my xacto knife. 

I don’t know why I did the grass that way. All in one direction. I could have looked out the windows and found brush one the edge of the river to draw. Sigh. 

 The tree trunks  are much better. I left my whites. 

Here’s the first wash. 
And here’s the first go round. Tree trunks were terrible. 

Anyway Happy Weekend. 

Thanks for stopping by.  

Margaret xxx

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I do LOVE to draw chickens. I thought these were barred rocks but now I am not sure.

 Whatever they are they are definitely adorable plump birds. There were strutting around the farmstead at Oconaluftee hunting for bugs and worms. 

I hear they are a must for organic gardeners who use them instead of pesticides. 

Before I splattered the chickens. The background is painted with cerulean, quin gold and quin sienna. I used the same mix to splatter them. 

The birds are painted with – you guessed it!! Ted Nuttalls transparent palette and cerulean and indigo. 

Thanks for reading!! 

Margaret xxx

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I realized I still had a few Sketches from Gatlinburg unpainted so I started knocking them out today after I finished photographing a lot of paintings. 
Photographing art work is tedious at best and if it’s framed and under glass you have to take it out. Eekk.  
This was the painting before I lifted color off the roof behind the main cabin and off the chimney. I thought about getting out my white gel pen but using masking tape to tape off the places I wanted to lift with a Mr Clean eraser was easy. It will take it back almost to the white I should have left. 

Back to the water color. Most of it is painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent colors. The main stay in my pallette but I do find it impossible to paint without cerulean. 

Here it is before I splattered it and fixed the fence. 

Socks are done and off to Asheville via USPS to keep Dads toes toasty if we are lucky enough for a cold snap. 

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret xxx

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Zoe doing what she does best being a well behaved JackRussell  snoozing. I do find those ads with misbehaving JRTs annoying like the Angieslist ad. Never had one JRT tear stuff up and we have had 16 of them. 

Labs however – I called my last one jaws because of all the things the dear dog gobbled. 

Tom Cat hogging the dog bed. Just as well. Neither of them seem to like it. 

Both are drawn with my first Noodler a Creaper that looks like a cigar. Love that pen. Drawn in my super aqua bee tablet with Carbon Platinum Plus Black ink. 

Thanks for checking by. 

Margaret xxx

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