Her way to cheer someone up. I started her with watercolor pencils but shifted to regular watercolor. Pen is sepia Pitt pen on 140 Fluid cold press paper.
Colors used yellow ochre Burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine.
Margaret ready to put on her jammies and warm up at her house. Xoxoxo
Watercolor and inktense pencil after I wet it.
Wet day. A good day to binge steaming tv and knit. Have I NO. I decided it would be a good day to go shopping. Isn’t that when you like to shop?!🤣. I did beat the monsoon home but the humidity was 81% til the rain. We were dripping.
Been reading a fun book called Living Out Loud today by Kari Smith and decided to do some journal pages aka make a record of all my sock knitting mania in January and continuing in February before my hand falls off from the knitting nuttiness.
Watercolor and inktense pencil. This one was before I wet the pencil. It gets much more intense when you wet it. I used a spray bottle on this one just to see what happened. Worked well except turquoise which tried to run.
Drawn with a S Pitt sepia pen and a Lamy Ef w brown Noodlers ink in it.
Margaret ready to knit abit. Xoxoxo
First break
Drew this view first but I really am not fond of a small figure in the middle of a large page. The figure turned out nicely but it’s almost as if a microscope is needed to see the figure in this drawing. So I moved to another more interesting angle that would fill up the page better. 
This is what I ended up with. I only had an hour when I started so not bad for an hour. I should finish but probably won’t.
Her torso is a bit too long and what is with the left foot?!
Mostly painted with card red and yellow for flesh tones. Alizarin for darks or cobalt violet or a bit of Cheap Joes Andrews turquoise. Darkest darks cobalt and burnt sienna.
Black drape cobalt and burnt sienna. Yellow ochre and cobalt ok the lighter one.
Second break.
Drew Murphy who was to my right.
Al Beyer who was even further to my right.
And Fred’s. Gotta love this wild painting.
Henry
Gypsy
Then I was off to the framer to get Kristin to put these into frames I already had. Gypsy is off to a show in McCormick.
I also entered her in the National Transparent Watercolor Show. Wonder if she will get in. 🤔🤔🤔
Henry is going on a wall at my house unless my kids say pretty please for the painting.
A purple finch to be exact. I think they are the cutest birds. This time of the year they fluff up their feathers looking even cuter.
I watched one fat happy and fluffy in a pile of bird seed on the back porch. It was in bird heaven. It settled down for a long winters snack. I noticed my cat creeping up. Had to chase me fat and happy off his like of seed.
Spent most of the day cleaning out the last of Christmas and looking for a painting of my nephew which I need to get framed and enter in splash.
Of course it was the last place I looked. Why is that?? To make it worse it was under another wc painting I had hung from a binders clip. 
She was hiding him. Got to get them both to the framers soon. Before Kristin shoots me for saying I needed it yesterday. Oh and better bake her that long owed batch of choc chip cookies. Ops.
Socks are done. House is cleaner so not a total loss. Next up a pair of magenta socks with polka dots. Seriously I need to get some painting done.
Margaret ready for her four o’clock nap. Xoxoxox
Not a sketch of the cabin but a random house on the road into Brevard from Sapphire. Scene Looks pretty in the morning sun so I pulled into a loggers driveway across the road and drew it.
Drawn on some random loose paper in the car with a black ultra fine uniball pen.
Almost a week with no wifi no cable. We twitch our noses at it will start up fro a second or two two bars of u are lucky. Then without even moving the signal is gone. 😵🤔 So didn’t even bother with blog posts.
Time to get back in the swing of things. Hmm why didn’t I draw my croissant. Sooo good at Bracken Mountain Bakery in Brevard.
Headed into Brevard to meet a freeing from USC Aiken to do an art gallery walk in Brevard. Hard to do when you have young grandkids along. We tend to hit the toy store and the ice cream shop which are also a lot of fun.
The wild flower field in front of the cabin. Now brown but it’s so gorgeous when it’s full of purple Dutch iris and lupine. Later Joe Pye weed fills the field. 
And the mighty Thompson Rover from the front porch of the cabin. Best wild fly fishing river publicly accessible in the WNC aka western North Carolina. My son is lucky enough to own that stretch. The rest is in the Nantahala National Forest.
Rich Klein listening to Joe Kameen talk at USC Aiken. I am sure one day I will look back thru my sketchbooks and say I remember him. He’s the guy who started buying Lamy pens!! Aka he fell down the rabbit hole with the rest of us. Prof Rich can frequently be seen leaning on his chin while he listens intently or hmm maybe he day dreams. You can follow him at richkleinvisions on instagram. Inside his head might be quite interesting if his art work is any indication.
Lamy EF Noodlers Eelskin Ink handprint journal.
And yes he will get painted if I ever quit knitting. 
Christmas stocking half done. Did I post this?! For youngest grandson. Down to the heel now so on the downhill run.
Margaret whose glad the icy cold rain has stopped. Xoxoxox
I like to illustrate my class notes with sketches of people in the class so that I remember them later. 
This sweet couple from Indiana Mary and Jerry were so much fun. Jerry loved to tell jokes and Mary well she was terrific. They had only been married five years so we called them our newly weds.
Lamy Ef Noodlers eelskin Black Ink handprint Art journal
I finished that hat despite the bum finger. Usually more done shaped but this time just glad I got it done.
Margaret busy with her Christmas shopping. Xoxoxo
Remember to try to post when one can. At Bees Knees in augusta full of their delicious avocado chop chop heading to the Nutcracker in a few minutes. Let the holidays commence.
A sketch I did of Jerry Nadler during the hearings. I would have posted yesterday but I tried to cut my finger off with my new Costco extra sharp knives. The guys at Costco said I need a steel glove. They could be right. First two times were knicks. 
This one could have taken my left index finger off.
Today I did zero but try not to hit my finger while I knitted a hat for my newest grandson. Not easy to knit when one index finger is out of commission.
Back to Jerry N. I couldn’t listen to the next guy. Made me ill so I left. Maybe I will draw more of them later?! I did think the Constitutional lawyers were quite interesting but some of those congressmen- well I couldn’t care less if I ever saw some of them again anywhere.
Margaret nursing her finger. Xoxox
In Graniteville SC. On a beautiful fall day after lifemodeling I discovered a miniature English gothic village when I turned down a street I had never been down curious to see what was there. The road parallels the main drag to Aiken thru Graniteville and you can’t see this church or all the charming cottages that surround it.
I liked it better as a drawing in Noodlers Brown ink. Oh well. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. Liking the pen sketches better. 
This is the only pic i have of the drawing sadly. Oh well, right.
Inktense and watercolor pencils handprint journal Lamy EF now dried up and needing a refill.
Margaret who couldn’t stand to listen to the hearings today and only drew one head. Gave me a headache. Xoxoxo
Oddly the gorgeous leaves disappeared almost over night after I drew this. A storm blew thru Decatur and then a stiff breeze. The leaves flew like snow in the air. Temps dropped rapidly.
We went from a gorgeous fall day to freezing cold 30s in less than 24 hours.
It was snowing in Chattanooga!!
Handprint journal watercolor pencils and a blue univalve pen because I didn’t want to get black ink on my daughter in laws new off white pottery barn sectional. 🤪🤪🤪
Margaret home again missing her grandkids. Xoxoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 