Wish we had some views like this in Augusta. Sigh.
Every time I go to Trader Joe’s on Monroe I always stare at it for a few minutes.
It’s looking over the Grady High football field toward Piedmont Park.
Those tall buildings never fail to fascinate.
Lamy Safari Noodlers Eelskin Black Stillman and Birn Alpha. Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean
Hugs Margaret whose missing the moms who used to run Inner Bean. Xoxox
These two guys were just chatting away in Chinese or Korean. Could have been Japanese for all I know. Their conversation was very animated. The guy on the right actually noticed I was drawing. He was really sweet and asked me if I had finished before he left.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus Daniel smiths piemonite.
Margaret who had a busy day xoxoxo
Really pleased with the way this one turns out. Don’t know why I didn’t post it sooner. I had a lot of trouble with pens. Four in my purse and NO ink in any of them. How is that possible. Met some friends at the new Starbucks on Bobby Jones. Really nice BIG Starbucks. I drew the people in front of me. Some walked off some walked in.
The cars were a lot of fun to draw. Next time I am drawing my Prius in the painting lol. Artist car 🚗 self portrait.
Even like the way the crepe Myrtle turned out. I painted the whole thing wet in wet letting the colors melt into each other.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Ttyl !Margaret xoxoxox
Snacking on goldfish when we went to Oakhurst park. This was a very quick sketch. Have you ever treed drawing a five year old who never stops?! But Henry loved the idea of me drawing him. He tried to hold still. That lasted about a second.
Stillman and Birn Alpha w Lamy Safari and Ted Nuttalls transparent palette
Tty Margaret xoxoxo
No idea if this published. I did try yesterday and Sunday.
This posted yesterday on that OTHER blogsite I have…now HOW did I do that. I used the computer so I wouldnt do that but I did anyway. DUH-I know its the cold I keep trying to get…Scratchy throat sneezy and a drip that comes and goes…gone today…wheres my vitamin A but I have a headache. SIGH!!
Happy Sunday!!!
Which one do you like best?? I think the second one?!! For me at least.
Catching up diet journal pages and only have 6 more days til I can eat more food. YEAH!! Good news is I am down 23 pounds. AND even better news I can resist the treats like cake and cookies. HURRAH…and that basket of bread at Carrabas the other nite…did I say I DEARLY LOVE bread?? That said I dont think it loves me…my joints would get a flu like ache two three times a week before I gave it up…havent had it since. Another HURRAH!!!
This one is done with Winsor Newton Markers and some regualr watercolors. It was a pill . Mostly because there is so much paint in those WN WC Markers that they will leak into the other colors if you are not careful.
The “title” is colored with Tombows a dark blue on and caran dache neocolor ii crayons… a bright orange and then the brightest yellow I had…still not bright enough but OH well I am done…only messed with this two three hours…
I finally got a piece of ledger paper and glued it over the title of the page…I really had wanted orange letters but that was NOT to be. Ledger paper does not make bright colors sadly but does add a nice texture and a change of pace.
I also had hand lotion on my hands when I started painting this which acted like a resist…eeekkk…finally got around that by wiping it with a kleenex…not one with hand lotion either lol…
Anyway coming down with a cold..another new way to loose weight?? NO I refuse…loading up on vitamins…
15 minute sketches. I think I would do better if I used a timer all the time. 
The mask has black wink of Stella glitter brush pen on it and the necklace gold wink of Stella.
Done in a superaquabee tablet 10×14 or 16. W pentel brush pen and winsor newton travel palette colors plus all the Daniel smith quinacridones.
Ten minutes
Five minutes
Five or Ten minutes. Add texture contest which I won. The feather is done with glitter pens.
A contest. Add a beast to a sketch. Added the Chat Noir cat. Kinda wished I hadn't. Liked it better before oh well. Always another sketch. 10 min then 10 more to add the cat. I think. Mask is done with wink of Stella glitter pens.
Done in a superaquabee tablet 10×14 or 16. W pentwl brush pen and winsor newton travel palette colors plus all the Daniel smith quinacridones.
Ttyl off to run errands in Atlanta
Margaret xoxoxox
Last page in this sketchbook. Hurrah. So I decided to draw another page of Zoe. 
Zoe is always up for a modeling job. She's cheap. She works for treats! She is NOT good at holding a pose. Her ears are always listening. Rotating line radar to see what you are doing. 
I really like the way this head turned out. Both the sketch and the watercolor. 
This is my second favorite head. I was drawing fast.
I still had not filled up my pens and reached into my purse to see what I had. Pulled out a 6B Charcoal pencil and drew with it.
After I painted her I set the charcoal with fixative. So far it seems to not be smearing. Cross your fingers.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook. Colors used. Quin burnt sienna cerulean cobalt Andrews Turquoise.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox
My sweet flabrador Honey. She's fat as a butterball. She's very fond of food especially bread and cookies. Pumpkin pie. NEVER Leave any on the counter if you want to eat it later.
Yesterday drawing at Starbucks all my pens were empty. Huh. Four of them. So I drew with pencil. Today yet to fill them tried a 6B charcoal a la Alex Powers. It loved this Stillman and Birn Alpha. Unlike the pencil it does not repel watercolor.
There's actually a screwed up pen sketch hidden on the left of my grandson.
Labs are hard to paint. The highlights are almost blue. I slapped combos of mixed burnt umber and ultramarine in the dark areas and bled out the edges w clean water for the highlights. Shadows are cerulean and Quin burnt sienna.
Ttyl Margaret who had another busy day xoxoxo
Flowers 20×30 Strathmore Bristol paper
Flowers Riechison 300 lb cold press After my friends loathed my sweet little Chinese doll I decided to have another go at this bouquet on some Strathmore Bristol paper. Since it acts like hot press it lets the colors slide around on it and mingle like no other paper I have tried.
That paper meant aLOT of fast painting. Smallest brush I used was a 10 Da Vinci Kolinsky Sable. 
Despite that you will get runny drips which I love. It also meant using a lot of paint.
I had to leave it at this point. I will say it was easier to continue the background without hard edges like would have happened with hot press.
I got this far by about 8 pm and decided to quit because I couldn't find my masking fluid.
There was no way I was going to paint this saki pot without it. I finally remembered that I had put it up when I cleaned out my paint box before going to Charles Reid's class. He NEVER uses masking fluid.
Here it is ready paint. I used the tip of a paint brush handle to do this. Made great dots.
Just as I was finishing I got a smear of Quin gold which is staining even if you are using cold press paper let alone this type of paper. Eeekkk! Ruined?! I thought.
My friend Mike said NOPE looked awesome. Leave it alone.
So it's done.
Want to buy it?!
Colors used : Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean and cobalt.
Margaret xoxoxo who went sketching at Starbucks today and had to resort to a pencil. FOUR pens all out of ink.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 