Should have been finishing the flamingo but was having an unmotivated Saturday. 🙃🙃🙃
Margaret whose sleepy now. Xoxoxo
A little bird flew by
Category: Chickens, silver wyandotte, Barred Rocks
You Can’t Have Enough Blue!!
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
WIP
Tractor time. Found this one smack in the middle of Oakhurst in Decatur.
Slowly rusting away in a back yard near my youngest sons old house just off Oakview. As one of my friends said it already had a chicken. I think it might need one on top of the tractor too. 
The sketch on 10X15″ sheet of 140# of hotpress Fabriano. Drawn with a .03 Derwent permanent marker.
Watercolor added. Cad red light ultramarine Prussian blue quin gold burnt sienna.
Done for the moment but I do think it needs something. I added some greytone Tombow markers.
Addendum: found out this is a McCormick Farmall Tractor probably from the 40s or 50s. Thanks have found a pic on line of the same one but doesn’t tell the model number.
Margaret ready for bed. Xoxoxox
Jalopy truck time
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
Day 198 One more down Edisto Way
Having a binge tv do nothing day unless I had no choice. Driveway visit with a friend I hadn’t seen since hmm well about 198 days- not since Covid started. Hard to believe we are almost at 200 days since lock down begun. 1000 deaths per day for 200 days and no end in sight. Cheery thoughts on a gorgeous fall day.
I meant to draw some people in this sketch but of course they hopped in their go cart and zipped off down the beach about the time I sat down to draw this scene. Oops.
Hope I didn’t share this already. My granddaughter and I got out at the crack of dawn to take this pic. Did u know the birds start flying away from their roost almost the minute dawn strikes. It was like 3 2 1 liftoff dawn is here. And off they sailed. Next time I will have my good camera and get out there 15 min earlier. 😩😩😩
Margaret xoxoxo
Day 163 Key West Dreamin
Actually Laguna Beach. Crystal Cove I think. 1/4 sheet Fabriano rough press. If this were key west there would be a chicken or two and maybe a bicycler.Paint along with Vladislav Yesileyev.
Wishing I were walking out these gates to the beach. Reminds me so much of Key West. This Covid needs to go away so we can GO again. I know first world problems. I have to stay home and paint instead of going and painting.
The photo
The value sketch
The drawing.
The first wash. Wild ride getting this done.
Second was. Love the background trees.
Lots of negative painting. That means painting around the shapes to make them pop.
Still needs something. I know. MORE darks and lots of them.
Here it is again done.
Nite nite. Off to bed. Painted til 7 walked two miles. Did the power plate a half an hour. Zzzzzz
another paint along with Vlad tomorrow. Off to Barcelona.
Margaret Xoxoxo
Day 160 – Wow
We are already 160 days into the corona virus epidemic. Hard to believe but then I guess 170000 dead says it all. Right?!! 😢😢😢
So I entertain myself with drawing my back porch birds and the other animals in my life. I do love to think about what they think. So I give you the Beauty contest page 😬
Lamy Ef, Caran d’ache neocolor ii, Noodlers Eelskin Ink, Stillman and Birn Alpha.
Five kitties on my back porch. Anyone need one. Wild cats one and all but hopefully tame soon.
Terrible pics. They really are adorable playing the way kittens do.
Margaret xoxoxo who hopes you all are safe and healthy. Bet I will be drawing kitties soon but first I better wash those windows. 🤭🤭🤭
Day 128 The Prince of Key West
The Key West Prince. Fun way to pass a few hours. May have to try another one of these. Possibly make some prints?? This was done while Drawing with Danny Gregory and Gigi Chen today which was fascinating. Gigi Chen is adoreable and amazingly talented. 
Among the many types of art she does are amazing pen drawings of people and birds. 
You can catch a class with her next weekend July 18 with Sketchbookskool.com/workshops
She uses ink pen to do hers. 
I used gel pens because I had bought some a while back from amazon to use for Vlads class.
The prince is done with Pentel gel pens primarily orange white navy and a fav of purple and gold plus a fine sepia Pitt pen and a red Academy pilot pen. No red gel pen. Done in my Stillman and Birn Alpha. One more page!!! Wooohooo. New one waiting.
Worked on this one a bit today. Added some sidewalk cracks and took the white out of the big street light. 
Some black on the bottom left.
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Day 31
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
Another day of drawings
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 