Hitting the road in the morning
Drawing in lovely Valle Crucis in the am.
In the meantime a couple of Fealing Lin sketches from my notes for the week.
These will get watercolor.
Lamy EF Noodler Black eelskin Ink Handprint Art journal.
Remember what Picasso said learn the rules like a Pro then you can break them an artist.
Good advice.
Margaret ready to hop in bed soon. Xoxoxox
So after what I said yesterday I decided to finish Henry my grandson. What a sweetie. 
He still needs some jewelry as Fealing calls it. Some dots here and there.
Had to lift all the blue I put on the highlight not paying attention to what I was doing. Thought I had ruined it totally. As it is the paper is a little rough there but nobody would notice it but me.
Hot press fluid 15×22″ paper.
Brevard gypsy lady dressed for Halloween. No I don’t know if she’s actually a gypsy but maybe disguised as one.
A lot of fun painting her. Her sunglasses her scarf her jillion bracelets and necklaces. I think I there are seven of the later. But what a FUN figure.
She’s close to done. Going to negative paint around her white hair so it will show. And the. Who knows. Three more to finish and only one partial day left. 9-1 pm. Maybe one more will get done?! We shall see.
Margaret not dead tired for once but in bed after a fabulous dinner at Over Yonder Restaurant out in Valle Crucis. So delicious. Xoxoxoxo
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A few more parking lot chickens oops roosters from Key west Wildlife Rescue. Poor things having to live out their lives in a Parking lot. The big buff guy actually spurred the other ones. Meany.
Joe Miller aka Cheap Joe and Fealing Lin. I think he might be dressed as Van Gogh if he loved to be an old man. Joe is a Van Gogh authority and does a delightful one man show about Theo Van Gogh Vincent’s brother which he has performed all over the US including the National Museum of Art in DC and the Met in NYC.
Margaret having too much fun in Boone. Like coming home. Xoxox
Such goofy looking interesting birds with their pink knobby kneed legs, a pink hooked bill and bright blue eyes.
And friendly. They will share your lunch with you if you let them.
I read about them on Wikipedia and found out they use that long bill to probe the mud for goodies to eat. There’s also a bright scarlet version. Would love to see one of those.
And where else but key west can you draw an ibis and call it urbansketching? 🤣
Margaret trying to get back to blogging. Xoxoxo but I got a wasp sting today. How many ways can I say OUCH?!!
My friend who joined me while I painted. Did I tell you he tried to eat my Charles Reid Holbein palette. He likes expensive food. Rofl.
And then there was the poop. What is it with birds and their indiscriminate bathroom habits – aka go wherever. On my table. All over the floor. Yuck.
The green is made from cad yellow light and peacock blue. Makes a spring green. The reverse painting aka background makes the ibis pop. If I darkened it he would stand out even more.
Margaret packing to head for DC in the am. Xoxoxox
If I am not painting palms I seem to be painting chickens. And an ibis or two. I borrowed the name but the chickens really do patrol Key West. 
On the docks. In the streets at the crosswalks in the restaurants under your chair 
or even on the table.
TIP!!
Next time I am only bringing superaquabee paper unless I break down and make a sketchbook from strathmore mixed media paper. Both papers LOVE watercolor. They don’t Waffle while you are painting and they tend to dry flat. Always a plus. Plus the watercolor paint looks gorgeous on the paper.
Going to bring my long skinny one. 6×12 and either a 5×7 or and 8×10. Then I am going to sit on a corner and sell the sketches. Lol. Aka pay for our dinner and our
gas.
Try them you will love them.
Margaret off to Hogfish for some grilled hogfish salad. Sooo delish and no chickens. 
Just fish dockside. 
They stay in the water rofl.
Will keep the doctor away. Painting by the pool today. Just playing with my Vlad Yesilev sword brush. Makes great wonky chickens. Burnt sienna cerulean cad yellow cad red light dioxzine violet. Alizarin and opera rose.
And the daily palm. I know I have painted this same palm at least three times. I may be getting addicted to palm tree painting. I ran out of cad yellow so this one may not be quite finished.
Same colors as above. Superaquabee tablet.
Margaret back reading her book. Xoxoxo two more days in the Conch Republic. 😒
Hogfish w Gorgonzola sauce spinach and artichokes and mixed veg a mango martini and Pinot noir. And my sis in laws cheese tortellini with sweet sausage and bolognese sauce. OH MY so delish.
Topped with Tiramisu and a view of the Atlantic with various joggers and skaters floating by. A sailboat or two.
Best food ever in Key west at La Tratorria. AmAzInG!! That tiramisu best I have ever eaten and I have eaten a lot of them. Expensive yes but who cares food was perfection the view perfect and all divinely lickable!!
Margaret who hurt herself xoxoxo
You know I love to draw a bird. And ibis are so interesting. They just about lose so you can draw them. These were drawn at the Kew West Wildlife Center here. Found out recently they live in Augusta too. 
Now I wonder if they are the small white birds I see flying up and down the Savannah. Anyway fascinating birds with their pink bills and legs. They love dog food. Bought a sack of kitty snacks today in hopes of feeding them and getting them to pose for me.
Cerulean and quin gold on bodies. Quin coral on beans and feet. Cerulean blue eyes. Such lovely birds.
Background burnt sienna burnt umber mineral violet quin gold hookers green
Lamy pen eelskin black ink superaquabee tablet.
Margaret sitting out the hurricane in Key West. It’s heading north to Georgia so don’t worry. We should be high and dry.
Xoxoxox
In Columbia is hard to beat for food or ambience. I met my sister in law there for her belated birthday dinner.
Had delicious wild caught SC shrimp for a Sunday brunch with a bed of Anson grits and a blood orange cocktail. Think it was a martini. Did I say this place never disappoints. So yummy.
Cocktails are also interesting and off beat. Blood orange anything is hard to beat.
I was sitting in the bar area drawing this as people drifted to and fro at the bar.
Drawn with my Lamy Ef loaded w Noodlers Brown Ink. Maybe I will paint it. Maybe I won’t.
Margaret xoxoxo who has been schleepping all over town for safflower seed. Evidently the squirrels hate it. Who knew. Thanks Miss Mike for the tip. Xoxoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 