May be a wip aka a work in progress.
First layer watercolor. Lots of yellow and green ultramarine. Slinging paint with the sword brush. What fun.
Adding some darks. More paint slinging.
Waiting for some purple and blue pastels to show up from Amazon because I really didn’t have the any good purples or blues.
Margaret xoxoxo
Ultramarine Cobalt and Thalo Blue!!
Colors used Ultramarine cobalt Thalo lemon yellow cad red alizarin titanium white.
I noticed that my liquified seemed to have dried out much more than the more expensive golden paints.
The brushes. Used a lot of those dirt cheap house painting brushes. Make great grass like marks.
Everyone needs one of these. It opens any jar or better yet tubes of paint. Opens the small to the large size. My youngest son said he wanted to inherit mine. I found them at Publixs in the kitchen section during the pandemic. He was thrilled when I gave him his.
Go buy one. You will be glad you did.
Quitting for now because it’s annoying me greatly!!
Margaret xoxoxo
Drawing an old trucks is fun. I decide this one needed more rust.
So I added some burnt sienna to it.
First ink lines
Adding more ink lines 
Finally done. I do love a Good chicken. Do u suppose she laid eggs in the cab?!
Colors used burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine blue And PRussian blue quin gold cad red
Permanent fine lines .03 and .01 Tombow markers Fabriano hot press 140#
Margaret xoxoxo
Looking at this boat makes me smile. Love the silly birds on top. Clyde and co!
The photo. I was trolling YouTube this am and discovered an Ian Fennelly paint along and I thought way more fun than listening to NPR and doing the Aigusta National golf club.
And I was right. Always fun to listen to Ian natter on. This is an old sailboat on the river Dee in Cornwall. Something about the river isn’t there anymore just the marshes?!
Stage 1. The pen layout.
Stage 2. Drawing the boat and environs with a Tombow fine tip end. A number 65 I think.
Stage 3. Coloring the boat w tombows and fine liners.
Stage 4&5. Color added then some more marker detail. Also the silly gulls. Limited palette Ultramarine, Burnt sienna, Orange, green gold, white gouache.
Margaret who almost forgot to post. Xoxoxox
To finish today.
A day spent in Prague. Still lots to do. List too long to write but… it needs a lot. Oddly I actually like it for once. Usually I don’t like them til the next day.Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev
Vlads photo
The drawing on a half sheet of Hahnemuhle 140# cezanne.
First wash
Plus the sky. Took about an hour and a half to get to this point.
Really hated it at this stage. Yuck.
Added some details but there are sooo many to do. I will work on it some more manana.
Silly geese started honky at us. No clue why. Must be close to a dozen.
Margaret xoxoxo just tahred.
Arches 280# cold press paper Cheap Joe’s American Journey paint colors indigo, ultramarine, burnt sienna, dioxzine, quin gold and lots of water.
A fun painting to do. I could change several things and betting I will do another one with green fir trees next time.
What would I work on?! Less striped sky. Better firs. But all in all I like it. 
Masking the birch trees to preserve the whites before I started painting. 
I would wear rubber gloves. Eeek. Time for scrubby dubby.
Also might try using some of these paints on another one. “. L-R Daniel Smith Payne’s Grey, Cheap Joe’s Payne’s Grey and Cheap Joes Moonglow
Love the blues in the Daniel Smith and all the purples and blues in the moonglow. Last one is so yum.
Zoe posing like the pretty princess she is. She does love a scarf or two.
Margaret xoxox
because I scrubbed at this for over an hour I think. Maybe call it Mountain Mist?!
Before I started scrubbing. Everything was painted wet on wet. The trees were done with the liner and a chunk of kitchens sponge plus splattering. Only two colors were used. Payne’s grey and ultramarine. Arches 140# rough. 
I had no idea how to do the fog which I wanted to do the fog because I live on a river that is frequently heavily fogged. I was following a YouTube video with David R Smith to practice for class tomorrow with my new liner brushes.
All my tools used to paint this. Red handled brushes are the scrubbers.
I was scratching my head when o realized his supply list for tomorrow said two scrubbers. On the video he did a tree with a Mr Clean Eraser. After scrubbing with the scrubbers for about an hour I realized duh. Use the Mr Clean. If it could lift off a birch tree it could lift off mist. I finished not long after that.
I used the scrubbers to make wispy strands of fog floating off the river. Yes there are wisps if you look. 😘
And done. Time to use the palette knife to loosen it from the block of paper.
Margaret xoxox
Some of my favorite British birds from Paul Dinnings Videos and Sounds for Cats: Garden Birds. They really are the best bird videos I have seen on YouTube. Some people use them for a good nights sleep.
Another new Favorite is Prowalking tours. I went to Rome and Montmartre today. Think I will try Venice next. Just the beginning of it is gobsmacking.
Stillman and birn alpha pentel brush pen uniball micron Caran d’ache neocolor ii watercolor pencils and a teabag to wet the Caran d’ache.
Margaret whose going to try Wendy’s for dinner. Xoxoxox
Another bird or two. Great YouTube video full of chickadees.
Margaret xoxoxox
