Two more spreads colored with winsor Newton and Caran d’ache neocolor ii
Ttyl

Margaret could xoxox down 20 lb. 

But I have been busy learning to make kombucha and buying the stuff to make it. Then starting it. 

Anyway I sat in a class this afternoon when I should have been blogging. No sketchbook and all these people holding still begging for me to draw them as they quietly listened to Theresa telling us how to make kombucha. 
I drew on the back of my hand out. Oops. Amid my notes on how to make kombucha I drew the teacher and my classmates. 

Why kombucha?? Lots of probiotics and B vitamins and a long list of health benefits. Oh and tastes good. Fizzy sweetened w stevia of truvia so lo cal too. Maybe a substitute for coke??!

Oh that kombucha?? I got a 2 gallon jug to brew it in.  When I cooked the tea off enough to make the kombucha I had left the spigot open on the jug. A good deal of my cooled tea went down the drain before I realized what was happening. OOOPPSS. 

Guess I will start over tomorrow. Sigh. Oh but first I will post all the paintings from the studio today. 

For some reason I thought the sketches would be faster. Another OOOPPPPPsss. 

Ttyl 

Margaret xxx

Way behind coloring the journal. Bytw down 19 pounds now. 

You might ask why I keep track of the food.  The days I don’t I tend to overeat. Oops. 

So finally I sat down to paint a few of them. The title page was done with winsor Newton markers and Caran d’ache neocolor ii watercolor crayons. Gives a great zany look to this page that I really messed up. 

The other two are just the Winsor Newton markers. Trying to migrate to the From my Tombows because the colors are not fugitive.  I know I’m a few years when I open the journal the tombow pages will fade even closed in a book on a dark shelf. 

And I still have all these to color. 😳 Drawn with a Kuretake brush pen and carbon platinum black ink in a Strathmore mixed media 500 journal. 
Off to the gym. 

Margaret xoxox who is just hoping for rain from Hurricane Matthew. 

Yesterday’s post went to that other website that I really should delete when I figure out how. 

I drew this in the parking lot of the local goodwill store. 
Why you might ask?? BEcause I could sit and look in the vanity mirror. I know Wierd. But I did. 
Probably needs more flesh tones on the face. 
I lifted some of the hair color to make more strands. 

I probably should have stopped here. I was having fun adding dots of different colors. 

This is me with some dots added. And of course I was having too much fun so I didn’t stop here. 

Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette. Mostly Daniel Smith and winsor Newton colors. Drawn with a Konrad Noodler in carbon platinum black ink in a Strathmore 400 watercolor journal. Great paper for lifting colors. 
Ttyl 
Margaret who made it to the gym. Did weights and elliptical and NOW I am tahred. 😘 

11th and Broad 36×48″ acrylic 

My new albatross. Really ready to be done and start something else. A month is a long time for me to work on a painting even if it’s only twice a week. 

Last Wednesday I think. I really thought it was done at this point. 

Last Monday

Wednesday almost two weeks ago. 

Three weeks ago?! 

The beginning. 

Ttyl

Margaret xxx

11th and Broad 36×48″ acrylic 

My new albatross. Really ready to be done and start something else. A month is a long time for me to work on a painting even if it’s only twice a week. 

Last Wednesday I think. I really thought it was done at this point. 

Last Monday

Wednesday almost two weeks ago. 

Three weeks ago?! 

The beginning. 

Ttyl

Margaret xxx

Getting closer to the end now than the beginning. Lost another pound today. Bought some new clothes that fit for the moment. 

Drawn in a strathmore mixed media 500 journal with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum black ink. 

Oddly it’s much more permanent on the strathmore watercolor book. It occasionally smears a little on the mixed media. 

Colored with Winsor Newton watercolor markers and a few Tombows. 

Ttyl

Margaret xxx back to the painting trenches. 

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A Te Rex and ? 

But I couldn’t make it to life modeling. Hanging out with the grandkids which is always fun.  

White highlights drawn with a Caran d’ache Neocolor ii crayon. 

I drew this on the way home from school the other day. I don’t know what my fascination with trucks and earth lovers is BUT there it is. 

Ever since I drew those elephants and camels last week I have been obsessing over heavy equipment. Maybe it’s my grandsons influence. He loves them. Following that logic I guess I need to do a fire truck too. 

Once again I used Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean for the sky. Maybe next time I will try Pthalo blue.

The highlights were done by adding a cad yellow medium to the green. 

It was sketched with my Noodler Konrad loaded with carbon platinum black ink both from Goulet pens.  

The paper is a Strathmore 400 watercolor sketchbook. The book does take watercolor well so it’s growing on me. And the paper is nice and heavy. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Margaret xxx 

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