Finally got busy painting today. Think this one might be over painted. Oh well right?!
This store is over 150 years old. Has an old fashioned General store on the left side and tempting goodies in the other two buildings. A great place out back to have a picnic or rock on the backporch after u buy a sandwich at the Hamshoppe or a snack at Mast General.
Watch your wallet. Bet you can’t walk out without buying something.
Lamy Ef, handprint journal
Hugs Margaret ready for the Durrells to start.
Is painted. 
Fluid handprint journal. I had a lot of splatters on it from splattering trees. They wiped off. 😳
Now let’s see if the book dries flat. Did not like my last one but maybe they have improved?!
I used Fealing Lin’s palette colors but had to add Charles Reid’s fav chrome green and viridian as well as my fav Daniel Smith Green apatite. The hookers she uses is TOOO relentlessly green.
Cad red cad orange cad yellow burnt sienna and umber ultramarine American Journey turquoise. And a white pentel pen.
Margaret who has splatters everywhere. Even my phone and glasses. Xoxoxo
We call Cheap Joes art supply next to the classroom the Candy Store but Mast General has an enormous candy store at each of their locations but in Valle Crucis it has its own building. Danger danger is all I can say!! And no parents don’t want grandma or auntie bringing candy Miss Mike!!
Drawn at the tables of the Ham shoppe across the street while we enjoyed one of the Ham Shoppes Yummy sandwiches potato salad and their amazing fudge. Yea I ate the whole thing. Burp!
Lamy Ef Noodler Eelskin Handprint journal watercolor to come.
Margaret heading out on the last leg of her trip home soon. Thank goodness it’s cooled off in Augusta. High of 79 today. Yeahhh. Xoxoxo
When we are in Boone we always go to Valle Crucis a lovely secluded spot not far away. 
Mast General store is there in an old building dating back to the 1800s chock a block full of inticements for tourons like us to buy. Everything from hiking boots baseball caps and t shirts to old fashioned gadgets like the Apple corers that slices cores and peels the apple with a turn of the handle.
I taught my friend Mike that you can sit in your car and sketch when the weather is cold or hot and still be comfy and get some work done.
Lamy Ef handprint journal. Watercolor soon. Like maybe tomorrow when I get home.
Margaret xoxoxo still in Charlotte where we frosted a Halloween house now eaten.
Hitting the road in the morning
Drawing in lovely Valle Crucis in the am.
In the meantime a couple of Fealing Lin sketches from my notes for the week.
These will get watercolor.
Lamy EF Noodler Black eelskin Ink Handprint Art journal.
Remember what Picasso said learn the rules like a Pro then you can break them an artist.
Good advice.
Margaret ready to hop in bed soon. Xoxoxox
So after what I said yesterday I decided to finish Henry my grandson. What a sweetie. 
He still needs some jewelry as Fealing calls it. Some dots here and there.
Had to lift all the blue I put on the highlight not paying attention to what I was doing. Thought I had ruined it totally. As it is the paper is a little rough there but nobody would notice it but me.
Hot press fluid 15×22″ paper.
Brevard gypsy lady dressed for Halloween. No I don’t know if she’s actually a gypsy but maybe disguised as one.
A lot of fun painting her. Her sunglasses her scarf her jillion bracelets and necklaces. I think I there are seven of the later. But what a FUN figure.
She’s close to done. Going to negative paint around her white hair so it will show. And the. Who knows. Three more to finish and only one partial day left. 9-1 pm. Maybe one more will get done?! We shall see.
Margaret not dead tired for once but in bed after a fabulous dinner at Over Yonder Restaurant out in Valle Crucis. So delicious. Xoxoxoxo
Work is in progress. Henry! Got to fix those eyes. But really like this a lot.
The lovely Kate Marie also far from done.
Margaret ready for BED in Boone NC did I say Tahred and I should be drawing but Tahred is not! Xoxoxo
From Boone NC. really they are Key West parking lot chicks from the Wildlife Rescue.
Class tomorrow at Cheap Joes.
140# Fabriano rough press
Trying to decide whether or not to crop the fourth hen/rooster on the right. He she looks odd as in stuffed into the page. And it’s neither a rooster or a hen. Hmmm. Think I like it with just the three better but the blue feet on the left one GOTS to go.
Class w the delightful Fealing Lin tomorrow. She’s across the hall from me.
Margaret glad to be in the cool rainy weather of Boone NC. I think I remember rain. Xoxoxox
At the Imperial Theater waiting for Ragtime to start – Key West Chicks!!
140# rough press Fabriano. Dries so nice and flat for Fabriano.
Margaret xoxoxo heading to Boone NC in the am for a week with Fealing Lin at Cheap Joes.
One of our jokes is that if we sold enough of my paintings we could afford to live in a house boat year round in Key West. There are houseboats of every kind on any piece of water off Key West. Free mooring.
Personally I would want a yellow house boat to contrast with the blue water. 🤣
Of course after our near Miss with Dorian maybe we don’t want to live there year round. I think winter months could be enough. I don’t like the heat of August or the no see ums that chewed us up everyday.
Margaret xoxoxoxo
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