I took the pic I drew three years ago. Probably for an older friend whos nuts for a tractor. 
I really LOVR this ponying. I did it all by myself. Hurrah. 
The photo if you’d like to try.
the grey scale drawing. I realized in the art world this is called a grissaile layer. That’s French for grey layers. Commonly found in portrait painting.
Fluid hot press paper quarter sheet. Cad red quin gold ultramarine blue.
Dead tired from pointing for seven hours today. Note note xoxoxo
Does it matter?? Think someone broke the rear axle of this truck. Not me though right? 
The 1939 Ford Harvester truck photo. You can find copyright free photos on google. If you do a Google Image Search, under “Tools” there is a “Usage Rights” dropdown where you can choose “Creative Commons licences” to find royalty free images
First you draw it w a light grey tombow. Quarter sheet on hot press 140 # fluid paper. You can get it on Amazon. It loves ink.
Then you paint it-cad red, ultramarine, pthalo blue, burnt sienna, and yellow ochre. Next you shade it with more tombows and a permanent fine liner or two. A .3
Took an hour online class with Ian Fennelly today. Lots and f fun. He is a really great teacher. He’s teaching a longer one on a couple of weeks Feb. 18. The next workshop will be In a weeks time: https://www.urbansketchcourse.com/workshops/live-sketching-workshop-1940-harvester/
The last step is to detail the painting some more with the fine liners. Been thinking about the back tire. Think that can be fixed easily by changing the angle of the tire.
Margaret who got her second COVID shot. Hurrah. Sign up for yours here. 
Making me sleepy so back to my nap. Definitely better than having covid. Xoxoxo
Drawn with a tombow pen which is not waterproof. I really want to paint it but betting it will mess the birds up. What to do what to do.
Oh the bird channel was on YouTube called Birder King. Great big shots of birds so you can see them well. They hold still for a while to tease the cats! Lol.
Drawing with the tombow is fun though because you can smear the pen by adding a little water. I have ten diff shades of grey from a pale grey to an almost black.
Fun stuff. Really need to quit watching bird tv with the kitties.
Margaret whose having a really wild Friday with YouTube. Xoxox
I got a little heavy handed in a lot of ways with this little guy. Too much masking fluid and it was in lumps. No clue why it did that. Then I made his body too fat.
The photo which was twisted a bit to the right.
Doing the face. Colors used. Burnt umber, opera pink, grey, burnt sienna, quin gold, ultramarine. Lots of wet on wet.
Adding the body.
Done for now. I think he may need some more splatters. I may give it another go. But first a nap.
Hugs xoxoxox
Had to draw these camels. Probably will paint them but for now drawn with pentel pen .1 in my stillman and birn alpha. Three more pages left in it. Hurrah.
On YouTube will take you all over the world. A lot of them have historical notes on points of interest so it’s real walking tour of whatever town or city you have picked.
So far I have toured London Paris Rome Venice and a lot of Italy. I can scratch some places off my I want to go list like one of the Italian coast towns that I lost count of the stair flights climbed. Amalfi, I think. Gorgeous hut straight up and down.
I figured out I could take pics by pausing and then hitting the back arrow to get rid of the pause screen. Probably copyright issues but it’s fun to draw something besides the inside of my house.
One more week for dose two of the vaccine. Hurrah!!
Margaret xoxoxo
Which was mostly squirrels though an occasional bird. Who knew there was such a thing?! Fun to draw though. And my black cat Sooty was actually watching them while I drew him and them.
Stillman and birn uniball micro quin gold burnt sienna ultramarine blue
Margaret xoxoxox
Venice Nocturne Arches rough paper
Online class with Keiko Tanabe since Vlad isn’t doing his paintalongs lately.
The sketch
Painting the background. First laid down a layer of lemon yellow and quin gold. Then painted night colors over it. Thalo burnt umber alizarin dioxzine purple
Decided I did not like making darks with Thalo blue. They seem to go green instead of black.
And done. Seems a lame post but here it is. The class only lasted about an hour and a half. Was supposed to be at least two hours. I do wish she had told us to use our escoda perlas. I used my sables which are not as stiff and noticed right at the end she was using the perlas.
Basically I don’t think I learned a thing except I don’t need to pay to learn from Keiko. I think I could have done this on my own.
Doubt I will take another class from her. She’s sweet but Vlad is the far superior teacher. He Stays as long as it takes to get the job done and answer every question.
Margaret xoxoxo
High Street, Henley, UK
Hot press fluid 140# watercolor paper
I did this on a shopkeeparty.com paint along g w Ian Fennelly that I posted in my YouTube list of his classes yesterday. Lots of fun. Love hitting the Pause button.
I started painting this a little after 9 last nite. But it was fun.
The drawing and the shading. This is mostly tombow pen with some Pitt pen for details. The Pitt pens are permanent.
Watercolor layer done. I only used a few colors. Quin sienna, ultramarine, alizarin, burnt umber a dab of cerulean, and yellow ochre. Next time I will use more transparent color.
the finish. I really enjoyed doing the details in ink with Pitt pens like the column cap, the bricks, the sidewalk, tv antennas and a plethora of other details. Shading with cross hatching so much fun. It’s somehow soothing. I used a .03 Pitt pen for that. The Pitt pens have India ink in them.
Now I need to do some of Augusta or Atlanta. Really enjoy doing these. Been a pen nut since first grade and probably a painting nut even longer.
Margaret watching an ink seminar on crowdcast. My there are some positives about covid like zoom and crowdcast activities.
Xoxoxo
Done added more details today with a variety of tombows, Pitt pens and a uniball micron pen.
Can you tell what I did to it?!
Spent the morning watching Ian Fennelly on YouTube. There are several worth at watch that are actually paint alongs. Some are free.
Here are a few of them: Color and Shapes:Breaking them down
Drawing Piccadilly Circus
Arty Class sketching the Charles Bridge Prague
Arty Class Sketch Your High Street
Sketching Venice with Brush Pens
The Urban Sketch website with a free class in Feb drawing a 1938 Ford Truck
Ian also offers a wide range of online classes for reasonable prices. Really tempted by a couple of them. The Drawing Cornwall is calling my name. I love Doc Martin which takes place in Port St Isaac in Cornwall. He even drew one of the sketches from Doc Martin’s house. 😳
Starting another one. Will post if I get far enough to bother.
Hugs
Margaret xoxoxox
Took an online live class with Ian Fenelly. I have long wanted to take a class with him but never been where he was teaching. I have to say with ten years of public school teaching under his belt he’s an excellent organized teacher.
There are some pluses to the pandemic. If you haven’t tried one or two you should. shopkeeparty.com offers something for everyone. 
The photo Winsor Castle.
Starting the sketch with light grey tomboy pens on hot press fluid paper. A half sheet size.
Since Tombows are water soluble it is a great idea to use permanent markers on it to show details. The idea is to make an exaggerated perspective using some lines that are square but most not.
Watercolor layer done. Quin gold, Thalo blue, burnt sienna and andrews turquoise.
The markers and some of the paint brushes.
Adding details with the grey tombows. It was getting a lot of fun to do at this point. The fact that it did not all have to be exactly in perspective was freeing. Who cares if a line wobbles here and there. That’s part of the fun.
I added a lot of cross hatching per Ians direction. Done for now. Now it’s time to look at it for a while.
The bit of sky was added because I had some grey mess of Tombow that I couldn’t cover up any other way.
I recommend a class on Shopkeeparty.com. Thursday Keiko Tanabe is teaching. Will be scratching her off my bucket list come Friday. And next week Liz Chaderton is doing a very fun otter class. Once a week they offer a free one hour demo paint along on Tuesdays. I meant to do the otter with Liz today but got up too late. No sleep last nite. Might try it tomorrow when it’s on YouTube.
Margaret ready to put Her feet up and stare at her painting for a while. Xoxoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 