Of ink sketches. No ideas why the pic is not brighter since I took it in bright sunlight. Marilyn Hartley watching the professor paint. The one on the right looks just like her. Forget the left one.
Lamy EF. Noodlers Eelskin Ink hahnemuhle journal.
Margaret Xoxoxox
You would be surprised to see what you can get drawn in line at a chic fil a. The line during lunch moves so slowly though they try their best to make it move quickly. Sooner or later I bet there will be a wreck between impatient customers waiting in those lines.
I was stopped in line when I drew the cars in roughly. And the stop sign the trees girl in the stand. That line took quite a while. As I was heading to home aka getting my food I was done.
Noodler brown Ink Lamy Ef hahnemuhle journal which is almost full.
Margaret Xoxoxoxo
Somebody moved the chair or maybe it’s the morning light on the house next door but it makes an intriguing difficult to draw geometric.
Are the proportions right. Not quite but I think close enough. What do you think?
I even think it might make an interesting abstract painting.
Lamy Ef Noodlers brown Ink hahnemuhle journal which is already falling apart after a month of use. Annoying. Back to stillman and birn after this.
Margaret in Atlanta heading home soon. Xoxoxo
When the family dogs visit my house they love to stare out the front windows lusting after squirrels, other dogs, maybe a quick chomp on a passing neighbors leg as they stroll down the street?! Who knows what they are thinking. But the dogs hold still and just stare making them perfect subjects for a sketch.
This is my nieces dog Scooch a lab chow mix whose recently went over the rainbow bridge. It’s nice to have sketches of him to remember this great dog that traveled the world with their family and watched over the kids as they grew up.
Superaquabee sketchbook Noodlers pen with Deartrementis document brown ink. Tomboy pens.
Margaret off to Atlanta to see the new grandbaby. Xoxoxoxo
Spent this afternoon wiping out several blog posts to free up some room on my website so I can finally post again.
Chelsea. HP 140 lb fluid. 15×22″
Yesterday’s portrait. May or may not work on the background some more. 
A start. First break NO pencil. Shriek.
Burnt sienna and yellow ochre for skin with opera pink. Darks cerulean. Black burnt sienna and ultramarine.
Second break. Big things are off. Added some cad red light to the mix. 
Third break. I had to paint a background In to thin her face down. If you notice I actually moved her mouth to the left about half an inch.
Fourth break – I also lowered her forehead – it was too high. Added some darks on the left side of her cheek and on her left temple with dioxzine purple. That side was mostly in shade. A dab of turquoise above her left collarbone just because I felt like it.
Background is Cheap Joes Andrews Turquoise painted with one of his 1″ Golden Fleece flats. Got to get a new tube when I go to Asheville next month or Boone in September. I splattered it with burnt sienna. The grey is a burnt sienna and the Andrews turq.
Margaret off to book club. If you haven’t read Educated read it. Fascinating book about a family that’s a train wreck similar to Glass Castle.
Xoxoxoxo
Key west parking lot rooster
He posed for me in front of the Lowes or was it Home Depot where he seemed to live in the parking lot. One gorgeous bird.
Fun to draw lines with it. Think next I will try a bird with my Escoda perlas to paint the bird and finish it with the sword brush.
First pass with the brush. No feet. They faded away somehow. And oh my he needs an eye. I left the eye and the beak off because they would have run into the red.
OH POO running out of room again. Guess I will have to delete some more pics sigh. What a pain.
Second stab at him. Get it it’s a sword brush. Wish I had not added yellow along the top of his head below the comb. I might go back and put some red over the yellow.
Loving the lines but those feet refuse to appear.
Added some more ground and. Ever can resist splatters. Also added beak and eye.
Here he is done. Except maybe add red under his comb?! Soon he will be flying off to a new home after I fix that yellow under his comb.
Charles Reid palette w Vlads Neutral tint. Strathmore watercolor paper 140#. Nice paper. Didn’t buckle at all.
Margaret back to watching Good Omens. Great show on amazon with David Tennant and Francis Dormand as God.
Xoxoxox
The male cardinal has made his appearance. Fun stuff slopping paint on with the sword brush. same colors as yesterday.
Loving the abstract quality of these.
Margaret whose off to bed as soon as Zoe comes in. Xoxoxox
The picture doesn’t do this bird justice. She just glowed on her white paper in the sunlight on the dash of my car as she rode off to the mailbox. 
That’s the sword brush from Rosemary’s Brushes at the top of the photo.
There is no way you can make a tight painting with a sword brush but it does some great line work that is slightly out of control. The feet show some of the line work it can do.
The lines in her hair and her straps were done with the sword brush too. It’s fun to draw with because you can’t control it well.
Cheap Joes Kilimanjaro watercolor paper in a 4×6″ pad. Colors used chrome green opera pink cerulean burnt sienna ultramarine. Think that’s it. And mud from my palette for splatters.
Margaret xoxoxo
Monday is portrait class over in Aiken. Can’t remember our models name. She has. A few issues. Forehead too high. The dent to the left of her eye is too deep but maybe her cheeks too fat. And the right shoulder needs some definition.
First break. She looks like a ghost. NO PENCIL sketch. Eeek. Always makes me nervous. But it can be done. Onward and upward.
Second break. That ghost is still there. I do t seem to make much progress drawing the beginning with paint. And it definitely stresses me out that I can’t erase it.
Third break. I get tired of poking about and slap the paint on.
I lifted bits of white to the left of her left eye but think it may be a bit too much. So I will stare at her a while and decide.
Colors used. Charles Reid palette. Used a lot of opera pink since she had a rosey glow with a mix of cad red light and cad yw light for flesh. Cerulean cobalt peacock blue burnt sienna on the face
Hair is a wash of cad yellow light first. Then yellow ochre burnt sienna cerulean mixed with burnt umber and finally cobalt mixed w Burnt umber. Her hair like a lot of blondes has a lot of greys in it cerulean makes a great grey.
Oh and that black dot on her right cheek is NOT a mole but where I touched it w my dirty pinky knuckle. Sigh.
Top is yellow ochre burnt umber alizarin and cad yellow light.
Margaret who has a headache from stressing over the painting. What we do for fun. But the sinister grunge seems to be gone. Hurrah. Xoxoxox
Or is it just stopped up sinuses. Either way. Yucky. My bird drawing craze goes back at least six years or more. Some early ones. 
Parking lot seagulls probably in a Strathmore mixed media. 
I draw better birds now. All these were drawn while watching the birds.
Chicken chasing 
Parrot rescue in Pigeon Forge 
Drawing pelicans before we eat at Key Largo – Buzzards Roost. May be there soon hurrah.
Key west ibis from the Key West Wildlife Rescue. Love
These guys. They magically show up in droves when Lloyd the bicycle tour leader comes because they know he has snacks for them.
Love the ibis hmm and the chickens and the parrots and hmm I love drawing birds. Parking lot seagulls were lots of fun too.
Margaret year Xoxoxoxo time for Endeavour.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 