15×22″ 300# Fabriano rough press
With Vlad Yesilesev. Started the paint along TWO days late. And finished just as zoom made it go poof today. Thank goodness.
The picture. The church is St Eustache Eglise on Ile de France with Les Halles in the distance. The services of nearby Notre Dame have been meeting here since the fire.
The sketch. Erase erase erase. 😫
First washes. Forgot to take a pic of the very first wash. Darn it 
Finishing up. But it went too dark I think maybe. Soooo
I taped her up and lifted some color with my sea sponge. Vlad should never have showed me how to do that.
Here it is lifted. After I looked at it for a while I decided it had to have some more darks especially under the cars. They looked like they were floating.
Here it is now. I may go back and add a few more darks on the buildings and a few more turrets.
Anyway we are off to hot sunny Laguna beach Sunday. Come join usat the paint along. You will be glad you did.
Our my back window. Can’t decide which view I like better.
Margaret xoxoxox
Really a rocking chair. I just love this chair. Silly I know. Usually it sits in the corner of the den and nobody sits in it though it’s quite comfy. An extra chair. Definitely a challenge to draw this very curvy chair.
I think this is done now. Somehow I managed to forget to paint the balcony. What?! I also lightened the tree. And worked on the store a bit. I forgot I was going to do some writing over the one store front. Maybe tomorrow. Lol.
Third later begun. Adding details. I should have stopped here. Too bad I didn’t.
To an onion you know you have been alone too long. Told it I had drawn a really great picture of it before I copped it up for ratatouille. I even cried. Onions always make me cry when I cut them up. 🤣
36 so far.
My favorite bread recipe. So good. 
Saw Martha make these last Sunday on cbs Sunday Morning Show. Looked too delicious so I wrote the recipe down but think I would sub raisins and cranberries. I have plenty of those. 
Thought these sounded good til Martha showed me hers. I do like a good oatmeal cookie. 
And I am quite fond of keeping a large bowl of this kind of salad in the fridge. Did I remember to get cucumbers NOPE. Trip to the store required. With a mask of course.
Draw something nearby with Morgan. Been meaning to draw my grandmothers opera glasses which are quite cool. I take them to art classes to see what the teachers doing better. I also watch the birds with them. They are really quite good binoculars. Brass and mother of pearl with a cool lorgnette that I hope is bake lite plastic NOT ivory.
Not sure it’s done. Maybe I will like it better in the morning?!
the value sketch
Done for today but think I will add a bit of white gouache to the figures to set them off aka light on the shoulders and head.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 