Something fun for Easter. Hope yours was Hoppy. I do enjoy doing these little tiny snapshots.
Did u find Zoe and the Easter candy?! Lamy Ef Noodlers eelskin Ink.
This am.
Finally got pics of the Downy on the suet. Was afraid he would fly away if dived for my camera so I used my iPhone.
Margaret who cooked all afternoon again. Not sure why. Pork chops oven brown rice cauliflower and coconut cream pie. Yummm Xoxoxox
These are always fun to do but the squares got really wonky on me today. I decided I would only draw things I could see on the coffee table. Yes it’s quite the mess. But I do like these little snap shots.
Started writing down recipes. 
Still have two more to do but got sidetracked talking to mom for TWO hours. She said her arm got tired. Both arms. Well she is 94!! 🤔🤔
Did I post this yesterday?! It’s time people it’s time. Hmm oh wait it’s always time right now isn’t it?!
Margaret Xoxoxox
Amazing how busy you can stay doing nothing important. I got up before 8 to draw with Koosje on Instagram but couldn’t find her soooo I drew this:
The corner of the den and out the den window.
Then who popped up on my phone Koosje sooo I drew this.
Part of the shelf in the den. Kinda fun and lots easier than the first one.
So I was ready for Danny at noon in between a little cleaning sheet washing dog chasing cat feeding and you know important things. NOT. He wasn’t on til 1. What?! Then I found Mary Berry she of the British Baking Show fame. Who knew she’s been well known in England for years and years. So I watched one while waiting for Danny. She’s so charming. So utterly British.
And darned if we weren’t drawing a plant with Danny. Too lazy to find a new plant I drew the white amaryllis again. Hohum is the way I feel about this version.
What next?! Watched Mary Berry while waiting for sheets to dry and walked. A lot. In front of the tv. 
And I thought this recipe sounded tasty. I do love a good Eggs Benedict. So of course I wrote it down and illustrated it.
Out my window this evening. Sun came out. Oh yeah. Meant I had to fill the pool since there we got zero of the predicted rain.
Margaret about ready for bed. Zero face masks made. Maybe tomorrow?! Xoxoxox
I actually got up in time to do the sbsdrawingparty with Koosje this am at 8. Usually I am thinking about getting up.
Draw the room with a plant in the foreground. Colored pencils. I used Watercolor pencils because I was too lazy to get up and find my colored pencils at 7:55. Enough just to show up. They are now found and sharpened aka ready.
I just happened to have a great white amaryllis that I needed to bring in off the porch. What a treat to see it going crazy again around Easter. This is its third year blowing for Easter.
Anyway a fun technique to use. See you there in the am?!
Finally got this one done sorta more or less.
Danny’s class bombed out so that’s it for today. Think maybe I should have left this black and white. Oh well. Now it’s just a photo of black and white.
social distancing on the river.
Like this guy I am tired. Always a hoot laying around subbing on the porch rail.
Hmm bedtime. Maybe I will get up early again tomorrow.
Margaret xoxo
And I thought it was Day 27 hmmm
This am with Koosje. Draw your shoes up close. I actually painted this but no photo and I hate to disturb Zoe whose snoozing in my lap. Micro Uniball Lamy Safari stillman and birn Alpha. 
She’s had an exhausting day today. Went for a ride around. No human contact don’t worry.
And colored pencils with Danny at noon. I drew my Nikon. Waiting for a sunny afternoon to take some bird photos. Had to wash the sliding windows too.
Used three or four pencils. Blue orange yellow and red. No five. Purple too. Fun technique. Wild coloring.
And this was waiting for me in the mail box. Woohoo. Bought my pirate queen Comtesse Chloe Le Chat: Corsair Extrodinaire from Juliana Coles who posted them on Facebook. Love the words too. “In Times like this the Heroine takes her place. Batten the hatches. Fly the Colors!! ” perfect for the pandemic. 
And look at all the swag that came with it. I might love her – the cat and Juliana. 🤗 Chloe is now in quarantine airing out for a few days but I can admire her every time I walk by her on the kitchen counter near the hall door.
Woohoo.
Margaret watching Maine cabin masters. Batten the hatches!! Fly the colors!!xoxoxo
Madly drawing today and doing a few must does. Sketchbookskool live drawing party. I drew at 8 am on Instagram and then noon on YouTube. Lamy Safari which makes a thick rich line a Lamy Vista which makes a thinner scratchy line. Noodlers eelskin Ink. Watercolor pencils. Stillman and Birn Alpha which is almost half full already. What?! Record time. 
Then I made several face masks. I may have that figured out finally. Only 60 left to make. Eeekk. 
I took a friends pattern and adapted her back to my front leaving an opening to so the filter could be removed when the mask is washed. 
And it also let me add a slot on each side to feed the T-shirt yarn ties thru. 
Here’s this afternoons sewing. Eight done. Hurrah.
Dawn in the river.
Love the early am light on my porch chandelier.
Margaret tucked up in bed but I didn’t forget to post. Yeah. Xoxox Please stay home and stay safe!!
From last weeks urban car sketching.
Spent yesterday starting to make masks because if they work for medical people they will protect the ones I love from the virus too.
Don’t believe for a minute you don’t need one when You go out.
Here’s the article!!
I am ripping up filtrete filters with merv 1900 -2200 rating which is really good for masks but u can also use hepa vacuum filters. Just try not to puncture them.
Other fabrics you can use for filters.
You can use duct tape and staples scotch tape masking tape to make the folded accordion style masks. And add ribbons or scraps of fabric for ties. Get creative. Masks patterns are all over the internet.
And no elastic!? Cut strips across your T-shirt’s width about an inch wide. Pull on each end of them. 
You get spaghetti t-shirt strips perfect for ties.
I made this large pile of ties in minutes. Hmm leftovers. I could tie tomato plants up with them. If I had tomato plants. 🤣😂
So get busy. Some glitter might be a good finish!!
Two face masks for my son with bad asthma. Taken two days of ripping and cutting. One day of washing drying fabric. Omg! And I have 53 to make. 😖😖😖
Stay well!! Love you guys!
Margaret who will post art later today after I get the bread out of the oven.
Hoping you and yours are doing well. So far so good with all of mine. So here we will sit six feet apart for another month. It’s worth it if it saves even one life.
Never pays to grab a random black sketchbook without looking to see if it’s the right one. This one wasn’t. NOT fond of watercolor. 
And don’t make a mistake – it’s NOT coming off. No blotting lifting will do. Paper so thin it waffled badly. 
This is the kind of sketchbook it is. Ink was fine but watercolor not so much. A birthday present supposedly ok for watercolor. How I mistook it for my black stillman and birn Alpha I will never know. 
The Alpha is covered with stickers. They look nothing alike.
Spent the day ripping apart filters to make facemasks only to find that I should have gotten the kind in the photo above. Ripping off all those gold plastic wires was tough on my hands. Six done. Still ok for masks but the one in the photo has about 6 times as much fabric. Will use it for my next go round because these will only make 25 or so.
And then there was the baking. Snickerdoodles yummm so crispy and buttery.
And easy no knead bread heading for the oven in an hour. Can’t wait. Usually it takes 18 hours on the counter but not this method.
Not much to see outside this morning. I was hoping doe a pretty sunrise instead it’s been overcast. Hmmm.
And that’s it from the river where the sun will set soon. Hmm still won’t be able to see it. First world problems right?! Xoxoxox
Margaret
Watercolor pencils, Stillman and Birn Alpha, Lamy Safari, Noodlers Eelskin Ink
More tv sketching. Always a good excuse to watch tv or a movie. The sketchbook is really getting full of these aka watching too much news.
I drew Nancy yesterday while I listened to her talk about the 2 trillion dollar bill passing Congress. 
Cad red light and a dark flesh colored pencil starts her off w cocoa brown shadows, hair. Alizarin and cad red light lips.
Adding flesh colors. And what’s with her fat face. Sigh. Gotta thin it down.
Thank goodness the bill is done. I hope it provides needed relief for everyone.
Thinned her face down QUITE a bit!
Maybe draw the Pope next. I do love that man.
Our my kitchen window this am. Spring is here. Check the pollen out on the deck floor. 😖
A quick sketch on an envelope I mailed to Augusta’s local hero Leonard Porkchop Zimmerman who donates stacks of his happy stickers and sometimes buttons to the world at makemehappy.com
I make him cookies – quite the sweet tooth our Porkchop has.
Margaret ready to put on her jammies. Xoxoxo Stay safe!!
The back porch models posing for me. Sepia fine Pitt pen
I decided to use the pentel brush pen stillman and birn Zeta. Did NOT go as well. My fav is the little bird on left second one down and the big red cardinal. The brush pen can have a mind of its own drawing tiny bird legs beaks and eyes.
I drew the red cardinal with my watercolor pencils. A set of 24 will give u all the colors you need. Xoxoxo
Su nset on the rivah
Margaret busy watching Gov Kemp talk about what’s going on in Ga. be safe. Xoxoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 