A summation of my diet. What I learned.
I should have added that people don’t recognize me anymore if they hadn’t seen me in a month or two or they think is that Margaret?!
High school friends have no problem recognizing me thug cb they haven’t seen me in years.
Tells you something.
Then there are friends who ar ESP funny bitting their tongue when they say you looks so much younger. Better still I feel younger.
Winsor Newton magenta wc marker and cad yellow light with a touch of card red med.
A journal page from last week. All are drawn now. Still have about five left in my coloring book to color.
Cad red WN WC marker, fan I’ve, cad yellow light, sap green, cad orange and yellow Ochre . A murky green tombow and a very light blue one.
Off to Columbia. Enjoy this beautiful fall weather.
Margaret xoxox in her size 8 skinny jeans. Who knew they are like spanks if they are tight enough. Lol.
I still have four or five of these to color. I colored this with a bright orange tombow and wet it. It was so bright I blotted it off to lighten it up some.
A fun page. Colored with only Tombows.
This is a page that I drew and ever got around to coloring. Only a few of these left. I still have the last few pages to draw from last week so bear with me while I clean up.
I love the way this page turned out. Wished I had stopped while I was ahead with the dark blue and just stuck with the turquoise letters.
Super lettering on this one I think.
But no I had to improve. NOT. It got too dark so I tried blotting it off with a damp Kleenex. Better but not as good as it was.
This is before I started the blotting. You be the judge.
Drawn w a kuretake brush pen in a strathmore mixed media journal. Colored with Tombows. Why are they NOT archival. Nothings perfect I guess.
Off to the y. Yoga time.
Ttyl Margaret feeling lots thinner.
Busy day today. Lost another two pounds. Got to try the Y scale. Anyway. The big painting. It’s like one foot forward and two backwards or even sidewards.
I also got an admonition to create chaos and order and quit loosing my sketch lines at critique like this Matisse. Eek what does that mean.
That’s said I gotta loose those icky shadows on the people and paint some flesh colors back in. Really don’t like the guys legs or the shadows on the mom and the baby now. It’s only paint. If I had time I would hop in the car drive to Aiken and fix it. NAsty!!
Too many hard edges. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. 
Where is my nickel asp gold and pyrrole red. With white I love those colors for flesh. And the shadows too. Like in this one.
I do like sidewalk shadows better now. It’s a big canvas-36×48 and there’s lots to do.
Here’s the sketch from Wednesday two weeks ago.
Still have several more diet journal pages that I have yet to post. So far I have lost 26 lb since the end of August. Now in size 8 jeans. Hurrah. But the scale still says I have more to loose though most people think my scale is wrong. Maybe I will try the scale at the Y Thursday when I go. In the meantime after a couple of days of vacation dieting i.e. eating things I should not be eating it’s time to diet again.
Tombow markers.
Thanks for checking by.
Margaret who really wishes she was hanging out with her grandkids tonite but is home again.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
