Emily 15×22″ cold press Fluid paper 
Sketch
At forty minutes in
Second break
And when I quit today.
Used my Charles Reid palette colors.
Dr Bill who was too my right.
Dr Fred who was sitting in front of Dr Bill
Coach Larry who was behind me.
Drew who was to my left
Al Beyer who does a great back!
That’s a wrap. Off to another movie
Xoxoxox Margaret
Have three paintings I am finishing up to enter in the splash competition. If I don’t enter I won’t get in will I?!
Been working on Gypsy today.
Here she is now. Can u tell the difference?! Got to take a better picture on a sunny day when the colors are not so dark. Stupid smart phone thinks it knows best but it doesn’t.
Just little things like more detail on the beads. More sloppy dots as we call them.
Added some white gouache on highlights like around her glasses and in her earrings. 
Before. Also darkened her moth a little. Small drips and drabs.
About those dots. Try to never make two the same shape or in a line aka systematic. It’s so easy to just put the dots all in a line without even realizing it. And change colors. I don’t do that enough.
Onward to Henry and a commission.
Cold press Fluid watercolor paper. Fealing Lin palette colors
Margaret whose trying to decide if she wants watch season 3 of Anne with an E or not.
Ps listened to an interesting book for book club while I painted. A Well Behaved Woman about the Vanderbilts. Interesting. Xoxoxox
Naomi 15×22″ 140 lb cold press fluid paper.
Busy painting – the GWS deadline is looming.
And going to movies. Little Women yesterday. Richard Jewell today. Enjoyed little Women but I always love them. One of my fav books as a kid.
Naomi earlier today. I wanted to brighten her hands. And get rid of drips which I did yesterday with a mr Clean eraser.
I lifted the hands with the Mr Clean too and masking tape to keep the other nearby colors crisp. I also did some negative painting with darks on her pants to brighten her hands. Added bits of yellow ochre or raw sienna.
I also worked on her hair. Adding dabs of darks Andrews turquoise and mineral violet to make her hair fuzzy.
Using Fealin Lins palette colors.
Margaret who needs to paint but can’t resist a bit of fun on New Years.
Not a sketch of the cabin but a random house on the road into Brevard from Sapphire. Scene Looks pretty in the morning sun so I pulled into a loggers driveway across the road and drew it.
Drawn on some random loose paper in the car with a black ultra fine uniball pen.
Almost a week with no wifi no cable. We twitch our noses at it will start up fro a second or two two bars of u are lucky. Then without even moving the signal is gone. 😵🤔 So didn’t even bother with blog posts.
Time to get back in the swing of things. Hmm why didn’t I draw my croissant. Sooo good at Bracken Mountain Bakery in Brevard.
Headed into Brevard to meet a freeing from USC Aiken to do an art gallery walk in Brevard. Hard to do when you have young grandkids along. We tend to hit the toy store and the ice cream shop which are also a lot of fun.
The wild flower field in front of the cabin. Now brown but it’s so gorgeous when it’s full of purple Dutch iris and lupine. Later Joe Pye weed fills the field. 
And the mighty Thompson Rover from the front porch of the cabin. Best wild fly fishing river publicly accessible in the WNC aka western North Carolina. My son is lucky enough to own that stretch. The rest is in the Nantahala National Forest.
To start was helpful. The painting is about 16×20 coldpress fluid 140# paper. 
The sketch at the first break with just a little color added. My biggest problem was as Charles Reid said “NEVER draw a head smaller than four inches.” It makes it too hard to paint the features. Oh well being annoyed with our painting short comings keeps us coming back to try again.
Bill Daniels small oil
Al Beyer sorry about the bad light
Drew Murphy – old Holland acrylic. Looks a lot like an oil.
And Dr Freds large acrylic. His are always just fun and whimsical. Everyone else fled before I thought to take photos. Oops.
Margaret who really needs to get her presents wrapped but first a long nap. Three hours sleep is NOT enough. 😴😴😴😴
15×22″ coldpress fluid paper
Was having a terrible time drawing Ilaina this am so I turned the paper over and painted her without a drawing. This painting took about an hour.
Here she is after about 40 minutes sooo wet. The paper just rippled. Thank goodness I found a hair dryer under the bathroom sink so I could dry her.
She may get some tweaking or maybe not. Right now thinking her ear needs to be cleaned up with a Mr Clean. It should be similar in color to the rest of her face. and those silly little pieces of hair. I had to play with my Cheap Joes Scroogys loose goose just once.
Colors used alizarin cad orange cad red for skin tones. Alizarin shadows with cobalt mineral violet and Cheap Joes Andrew turquoise. Hair burnt sienna and ultramarine.
Fred’s mondigliani. Told him he should finish it.
Drews acrylic. I made her look younger. I think he made her look older. He’s using a new brand of acrylic paint. Old Williamsburg. Their oil is suppose to be THE best oil.
Only two more people came. Did get photos of theirs.
Again.
Emily
15×22″ cold press fluid paper. When I left drawing today. I took this out in the bright sun in the parking lot. 
This is what it looked like using my iPhone 8 and interior fluorescent lights. Color in the first one is closer to the painting so even though it’s probably finished now I will wait til tomorrow to take a pic in the sunlight. Well I hope there’s sun. 🤔😳Better check the weather.
The sketch. Thirty minutes or so.
Second break. Sorry for the terrible photo but the lightening is terrible in the room.
Maggie thinking about taking her sore cut up finger to the doctor which i probably should have done Thursday when I did it. Xoxoxo
Remember to try to post when one can. At Bees Knees in augusta full of their delicious avocado chop chop heading to the Nutcracker in a few minutes. Let the holidays commence.
A sketch I did of Jerry Nadler during the hearings. I would have posted yesterday but I tried to cut my finger off with my new Costco extra sharp knives. The guys at Costco said I need a steel glove. They could be right. First two times were knicks. 
This one could have taken my left index finger off.
Today I did zero but try not to hit my finger while I knitted a hat for my newest grandson. Not easy to knit when one index finger is out of commission.
Back to Jerry N. I couldn’t listen to the next guy. Made me ill so I left. Maybe I will draw more of them later?! I did think the Constitutional lawyers were quite interesting but some of those congressmen- well I couldn’t care less if I ever saw some of them again anywhere.
Margaret nursing her finger. Xoxox
In Graniteville SC. On a beautiful fall day after lifemodeling I discovered a miniature English gothic village when I turned down a street I had never been down curious to see what was there. The road parallels the main drag to Aiken thru Graniteville and you can’t see this church or all the charming cottages that surround it.
I liked it better as a drawing in Noodlers Brown ink. Oh well. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. Liking the pen sketches better. 
This is the only pic i have of the drawing sadly. Oh well, right.
Inktense and watercolor pencils handprint journal Lamy EF now dried up and needing a refill.
Margaret who couldn’t stand to listen to the hearings today and only drew one head. Gave me a headache. Xoxoxo
Oddly the gorgeous leaves disappeared almost over night after I drew this. A storm blew thru Decatur and then a stiff breeze. The leaves flew like snow in the air. Temps dropped rapidly.
We went from a gorgeous fall day to freezing cold 30s in less than 24 hours.
It was snowing in Chattanooga!!
Handprint journal watercolor pencils and a blue univalve pen because I didn’t want to get black ink on my daughter in laws new off white pottery barn sectional. 🤪🤪🤪
Margaret home again missing her grandkids. Xoxoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 