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
Katie Well this was not great. I forgot my watercolor brushes and didn't have a canvas so I played with my neocolor ii for first forty minute session.
All my sketches are on 16×20 Strathmore
Bristol.
I moved for the next forty minutes. Used my 6B chunk of lead and a bit of the 9b chunk of lead. Hmm wonder if you can get lead poisoning from it?
Third session drawing. My favorite although I think I made Katie look too old.
Drew Murphys. Acrylic 24×30" My favorite of the rest.
Jeremy's lovely sketch.
A lovely pastel by someone named Al or Alex maybe.
Also really liked this one by Marilyn Hartley. Oil
Al Beyer's HUGE oil.
Dawns oil 24×30"
Dr Fred's. Such a happy acrylic.
And the lovely Ilaina in her Matisse phase. Oil!
That's it. Ttyl
Margaret xoxoxo
When I started this new blog I thought I would try to make 50 days of daily blogging and here we are at day 1100. Who knew. As Wayne Dyer said anything is possible if you do it one small piece at a time. 
20 minute sketches. The last of the dr Sketchys really liked the wings. Great fun to draw. The flowers NOT so much fun to paint. Jessie was some kind of woodland fairy. I think. She held the pose rock steady for 20 minutes which after 2 1/2 hrs of paint is no easy thing to do. 
Bytw I set the sketchbook up vertically while I drew and painted these. Anymore I almost can't paint or draw on a flat level
Surface. Strange but true. It feels odd. Time was short so these are all alla prima
Paintings. Love the way the darks in her legs and wings blended themselves.
Like Charles Reid says it's 50% you 50% the watercolor.
10×14 superaquabee sketch book which loves pentel brush pen and watercolor alike. Winsor Newton travel palette watercolors and all the Daniel Smith quinacridones. #10 DaVinci Kolinsky Sable.
Ttyl time to play with the grandkids. Hugs. Margaret in Atlanta xoxoxoxo
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.
As I am prone to do with a painting I hang them or prop them on the fireplace so I can study them while I watch tv at nite in the den.
Ilaina had problems. For some reason I had made her chin too long her forehead too high. And that awful purple blob on her chin.
I gotut my winsor newton synthetic badger flat and started lifting that purple blotting it with dollar store Kleenex. I lifted some Highlights with it too on her chin and reflected light under her chin.
Lifting and blotting. Always finding the brush with clean water.
Lowered that hairline. Lifted 1/2" of the brown background along her neck. After letting it dry I added a quick brush of the brown cerulean mix lightly where I had lifted it.
I hung her back up and Realized that I needed to lower her right shoulder. I lifted a bit of the flesh color to see if it worked. Blotted it with tissue. Let it dry. Added about a 1/2" of background to lower it.
I also trimmed down her hip and right leg a bit brushing it with some of the burnt umber cerulean mix with a two inch flat.
I think she's done but you know how we women are we want to look our best. She might be a little too square still. But that's for another day.
Time to finish this one up.
Margaret tying up looses ends today. Hugs xoxoxo
Thought this would be done by now. What was I thinking painting a 20×30?! I should have switched to a larger brush-maybe my 16 kolinsky especially for the background.
I put in too much background again. Even though I used cobalt instead of cerulean it’s the same tone as the old mason jug which is why the mason jar gets lost.
So will have to darken either the background or the jar.
I will say I like it much better this am than I did last nite. Sometimes things look better the next day. Last nite I thought it was pretty bad. But I think it’s fixable
This little saki pot made me quit. Looked high and lo for my masking fluid. Only found a dried out bottle. Noway was I paintingnit without masking those dots.
Like the painting looked better this am I realized I had unloaded my paint box when I took Charles Reid’s class (he never uses masking) and left it in my big box that was Dads. Sure enough it was there.
So how did I do all those dots?! The end of a cheap model paint brush dipped in. If the dots were smaller I would have used a BBQ skewer or a toothpick. I also tried to make those farther away smaller and keep them lined up and in concentric circles. 😱
Loving the start on the flowers.
Laid in background in a hurry. Should have been thinking less is more.
The Strathmore Bristol makes those flowers run together and look positively delicious. It’s swirls on the surface similar to yupo. Hmm maybe I should try yupo next?!
So far. It needs something to the left of the hot sauce. Maybe the trim on the bridge cloth its sitting on!? Maybe more fruit?!
It will tell me sometimes soon. In the meantime stay tuned. Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus cerulean and Andrews Turquoise.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
Half sheet on Richeson 300# cold press 15×20. Everybody hates my antique Kowloon doll in the painting so I tried to knock him back by loosing my whites on him and making him darker with ultramarine. I also washed his head with Quin burnt sienna and cerulean. I did the same to the background to make the light flowers pop more.
I also added a bunch of blobby bits a la Fealin Lin to it to define the flowers more. Like it better now but still don’t know if it’s done.
One friend thought my little guy was creepy. Lol. He’s actually a mandarin dressed in a black Silk jacket and beautiful blue silk pants w touches of bright saffron yellow which have faded over the years.
Last nite it looked like this. I actually liked the bottom half. I just didn’t like the way the flowers were lost in the background.
I think it’s because the values were too close. When I converted it to gray scale in iPhoto not much difference in tone. Which is why I darkened the background.
The sketch. Bytw this was painted upright on an easel.
Having another go without the doll on Strathmore Bristol board which is like hot press watercolor paper but even slicker making the colors slide around on it. This one is 20×30. Why not make my screw ups bigger?! 🤗
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
Thought you might like to see the order of the sketchbook so far. Still at least one more sketch to paint which will go here in the order. Painted on Kilimanjaro with Ted Nuttalls Transparent colors or Charles Reid Palette. Pen Lamy Safari loaded with Noodler Black.
Seemed like and especially good idea to me
Since the upstairs AC was dripping water thru the ceiling and it’s turned off.
So I “slept” on the den sofa
But mostly tossed and turned
Getting just a few hours of sleep.
AC fixed. Nap time now. Enjoy. Margaret xoxoxox worn out.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 