Category: Art

Day 375 – Food Tour part 2

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The whole enchilada. Wanted to post before I pass out from a fun four mile bike ride with Lloyds Bike tour. Color me worn out.   Lettering done with my pentelbrush pen and my noodler creaper Ahab.   

Annlises logo. Can’t go wrong with her tour. Viking would be proud to say she did their tour!! Terrific local food and local color!! And Annelise worked hard to keep us hydrated. We each got our own fresh coconut to drink. Amazing!! 

All the food was delicious but I fell I love with the fish taco at Andys cabana. I have eaten a lot of fish tacos lately and this one was perfection. I also drank coffee something I NEVER EVER do. Cuban coffee from El Siboneys could be my new energy drink. 

We also learned about the history,  architecture, the real estate market, and the flora and fauna. She does a super tour. A native of Key West she shares her huge amount of knowledge with her clients and if she doesn’t know she doesn’t mind telling you. Chances are good she does know!!   

We also got a list of other restaurants tha specialize in local fresh caught seafood and fresh local veggies. So far we have eaten at two. Louies Backyard and Camilles. Fabulous food. Just fabulous. Great atmosphere. Can’t recommend either of them enough or the Food tour. 

   Annlise. She’s actually prettier than this wc.   
The pages 

  Up close for your enjoyment.  
More after I recover from fun with Lloyd!!  He’s so funny and so knowledgeable. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 374 Key West Food Tour

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led by our fearless knowledgeable Annlise.  

 
A very quick Pentel brush sketch done while we were enjoying our conch fritters with lime aioli sauce at Camilles. The fritters had just he right amount of hot. And a tall glass of ice water to keep us hydrated on our journey. Annlise is a font of info about all things Key West from the local food scene to the history and stories and even real estate pricing. You can not go wrong with her southernmost food tour. 

Colors : cad red light, yellow ochre flesh, mineral Violet, cerulean,  cobalt, Inathradone blue, alizarin, Burnt sienna, Andrews turquoise. Hair is Inathradone blue and burnt umber.  Drawing done with Pentel brush pen. 

More about the food tour tomorrow. 

Thanks for reading.  

Margaret ️xxx 

Day 373 – Carolines and the Key West Ghost Hunt tour 

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 The best shrimp Bamboozled salad. Super wait staff. We were in a hurry to go on the Key West Ghost Hunting tour http://www.keywestghosthunt.com  and they did everything they could to accommodate us and get us out the door on time. 

  
The view from our table. It was contour sketched in ink in a hurry because we had less than an hour to eat and get to our tour. 

Then we were off to the Key West Ghost Tours.  http://www.keywestghosthunt.com

   
Our starting point at Kelly’s.  

 
Jan ready for the tour. 


  This is our guide Michael in front of the Cosgrove House. Michael did a super job guiding us on our ghost hunt. 
One of the tour members holding an L-rod which supposedly finds ghosts. 


These houses are on Eaton Street where the nanny hung herself after accidently poisoning the two children in her charge. They both died. The sparkly lights are supposedly orbs or spirits. 

   
 There are more orbs in this photo but the wierd eat thing is the fish shaped blotch to the left of the door on the left house. It was not there when I went back the next day to look but it was in both photos that I took simultaneously of the houses.  

 The orbs also moved around though the photos were taken one after the other.  And the black blotch is in both photos. No idea why. Believe what you want. 

The episcopal church supposedly haunted by Captain Fleming who donated the land to the church.   
 

Another orb in front of the cemetery. 

  
In the old Scottish Mason meeting room on Eaton which is supposed to be the most haunted street in Key West. I thought this was a huge orb till I realized that it was Michaels flashlight lol. 

It was a lot of fun and a great price point $20 with the code on their webpage. We both recommend it highly!!  

Day 372 Hog Fish Grill

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Yum. They do a great hogfish taco. No idea if their other food is good because that’s what we always get. Just like we always sit out on the dockside.  

 
This is the 180 view from our table. Still in the awful moleskine. Only a few pages left. Thank goodness. Then back to my super bee. 

I think I ended up with two separate paintings though they are the whole view from where I sat. A great shot down the wharf from where I sat and then out into the marina. Also where I was sitting. 

Wanted to add a note about the color. 
 The green is Daniel Smith green apatite a granulating primatek. Love the way it granulates.

 I added Quin gold to it to simulate sunshine on the tree and darkened it for the fir with Inathradone blue. The palms are down with it too. Yellowed with Winsor yellow a transparent yellow. 

 

The marina side from our table. Colors cerulean Yellow ochre mineral Violet burnt sienna and burnt umber to make the greys. The sky got way to dark. This paper just seems to suck the color and not let you add water to it to make it sheer. Most annoying. 

  
Here’s the whole double page spread. This really is what we saw from our table when we looked to my left. The reason we always try to sit here even though it’s Hotter out there on the deck. They do have huge fans to cool you down. Thanks goodness. 

I hear from a local,  Pam Hobbs of hobbsart2015.com  that their shrimp tacos are divine as well as their calamari topped Caesar salad. 

Off to watch the sunset. Thanks for reading. 

Day 371

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a year and 6 days of consecutive daily blogging. Not easy when u r on vacation!!  

  My sis in law while we waited for the concierge so we could book some tours. Right now we are going on the ghost your Tonite and the food tour Thursday.   

Lettering done with my Noodler Creaper Ahab and Carbon Black Ink in my moleskine Wc sketchbook. 

Colors either Holbein or Daniel Smith. Ultramarine blue and burnt umber in the chair with yellow for the couchins. Cerulean and burnt sienna for the magazine, shorts, light, the table and  the background all done wet on wet. The light is burnt umber, Quin gold, burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. 

The blouse is cerulean and Winsor yellow which is a transparent yellow. 

Skin Quin coral and yellow ochre. This usually makes a really pretty skin tone but NOT on this darned paper. 

Ok next up. Rant about that moleskine I am trying to finish. So skip it if you don’t want to hear me froth. 

Wishing I had brought another sketchbook.  Really LOATHING the moleskine Wc sketchbook. It acts like Hotpress paper. Very annoying. Colors act oddly on it. Thinking of ordering an S&b zeta or a strathmore ASAP from amazon. 

There is a Ben Franklins here BUT no hard bound sketchbooks. Great clerk there. We chatted for a while about art  quilts and sketching. 

 Don’t ask me how many new clean sketchbooks I have at home. At least four! Groan. Oh well. They keep.

    I don’t know what it is about this paper but I DO NOT LIKE IT. NO more moleskines for me.  At least til they start making them here again and improve the paper. I used to love them. Makes me sad when a product changes so radically. Greed will get you!! 

   
Last nites sunset. First one is in the moleskine. The colors just don’t look so bright and clear as in  the next one which 

  Is on a lovely piece of Strathmore 500 watercolor paper. GREAT stuff. Love it!!! All the usual colors with the addition of cheap joes Andrews blue, Holbein mineral Violet, and DS Orange which is transparent. Oh and any red I thought would work. Can u see how this one flies compared to the one done in the moleskine?!  

Thanks for reading!!

Margaret xxx who needs a nap before the ghost tour. 

Day 369 – the Long Road

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216 more miles to Key West. Posting from the Florida Turnpike S. 

  Boone 300# cold press Half Sheet 15x 22″ Another one done earlier this year.  Always fun painting mustaches. 

  
A great summer time recipe!! Love tomato pie. 

  
Only 115 days till we leave!! Meant to do one of these in the car today for Key West BUT everything is buried in the heap in the back end so maybe when I get to Key West?! 

Thanks for reading 

Margaret ️xxx 

Day 368 Oops 

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I almost forgot to post. From the middle of I 75.  Big day off to Key West via Decatur and my grandsons third birthday. 

So more of my favorite art for the year 

  
Inscrutable – 1/2 sheet Fabriano 300# for Sale in box me at mcmhunt @ me. Com if you are interested. 

An old Chinese man from Shanghai. Based on one of my dads photos from pre World War 2 China.  

 

Ilena 12x 18 Fabriano Artistico 140# my favorite watercolor done during life modeling sessions at USCAiken. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret ️xxx

Day 365 ONE YEAR

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of daily blogging and creating art.  I have grown a lot as an artist in that year which included a class with Charles Reid and one with Fealin Lin four online Sketchbookskool classes. Highly recommend them all. 

  Currently seemed to be obsessed with painting girls. Making progress on the latest one. She’s big. A half sheet of 300# fabriano which is about 15×22. That’s a big watercolor.  

  ALOT of negative painting. And a lot of wet in wet. 

  
I added a lot of why Fealin calls jewelry which are light blobs of paint. Most of mine are small but may add more larger ones to the girl before I am done. 

Painting the background has been a lot of fun. Colors used green apatite marine blue cobalt ultramarine cerulean mineral violet alizarin a bright yellow green. 

More to do. 

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret xxx

Day 367- A Few More Favorites

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Day Dream 1/2 sheet 300#  fabriano 

This one just squeaked in last year but she won’t be finished for a while.   I love the way she’s going so why not show her off?!! 

She needs more jewelry aka dots in the grass and more done to her hair more curls and frizz aka dots. Not sure if I will do more to the left side. Will think about it a while.  They always tell you what to do if you are patient and don’t hurry them. 

   
My favorite part of the field. I love all the negative painting. The batchelor buttons are cerulean and Inathradone blue painted wet on wet as so much of this painting is. The stem is DS green apatite added while the flower was still wet so it bled. The small white flowers are alizarin, cerulean and a touch of orange added all while wet. Love the way it looks like tiny white flowers in the grass. 

 
 
My son Ben.12×18″ All wet on wet on 140# fabriano artistic cold pressed. Love all the drippy runny colors. Let me know if you need a portrait commissioned mcmhunt @ me.com!! 

  
 A quick dirty journal page. Major excitement here. Booked a Viking cruise from Paris to Normandy yesterday!! 

I am going to sketch the Eiffel  Tower, Notre Dame oh and did I say Giverny?!😳 Good enough for Monet good enough for me!!

Pentel Brush pen in my SuperBee

 Buy something!! I have a cruise to pay for!! 

Thanks for looking!! 

Margaret ️xoxoxo

Day 366 a Retrospective

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Onward toward year two!! 

Since I am going to be traveling the next few days I am going to be posting a few retrospective paintings. Some of my favorites over the last year. 

   
Tea time. All southerners love to drink tea. I love the way the colors mingle and flow on her. Also her hair. She’s for sale $350! Mcmhunt@me.com

  This is a detail of the skirt. 

Lily Tomlin from Grace and Frankie series. Drawn off tv.

  Some old board books that I am taking with me to draw in at key west. I bought them for .50 at goodwill and painted them with a credit card a few years ago. They have languished since I didn’t know what would write on them. All my pens bubbled off. Gel pens died on them.   But today my friend Staci Swider said to try some acrylic markers. Stopped by Michaels. And yes indeedy they work. 

Get ready Key West here I come!!!

Thanks for reading. 

Margaret ️xxx