Off to dinner with friends in an hour but wanted to be sure to post before I leave.
Having fun in my tiny stillman and birn Alpha. Lamy ef Uniball wayercolor pencil.
Margaret our for a bit of fun. Xoxoxo
Category: Ink
WIP
Or perhaps nearing completion. Having fun doing these tiny journal pages which incidentally seem to take as long as an 8×10″ spread.
Watercolor pencils pitt pen Lamy pen Ef and safari
Margaret done for the night xoxoxo
Having fun
Filling my tiny stillman and birn with memory pages. They are starting to add up. True story of a tiny mouse yesterday. It might have been two inches long.
The guys were just standing there looking at it seemingly afraid of it.
I took the broom from Fred and told him to put the dustpan down on the floor and swept it up.
Appropriately painted with my tiny whiskey painters box with a basic winsor newton set of paints that I bought years ago. The expensive plastic box broke soon after purchase but the paint endures.
I have refilled a few like cerulean and added a few Daniel Smith quinacridones but the set marches on.
Darkened Ilaina’s left eye
Added a few shadows to her hand.
Pronouncing her D O N E!!
Margaret xoxoxo
Winging her way
Her way to cheer someone up. I started her with watercolor pencils but shifted to regular watercolor. Pen is sepia Pitt pen on 140 Fluid cold press paper.
Colors used yellow ochre Burnt sienna burnt umber ultramarine.
Margaret ready to put on her jammies and warm up at her house. Xoxoxo
Nasty rainy
Watercolor and inktense pencil after I wet it.
Wet day. A good day to binge steaming tv and knit. Have I NO. I decided it would be a good day to go shopping. Isn’t that when you like to shop?!🤣. I did beat the monsoon home but the humidity was 81% til the rain. We were dripping.
Been reading a fun book called Living Out Loud today by Kari Smith and decided to do some journal pages aka make a record of all my sock knitting mania in January and continuing in February before my hand falls off from the knitting nuttiness.
Watercolor and inktense pencil. This one was before I wet the pencil. It gets much more intense when you wet it. I used a spray bottle on this one just to see what happened. Worked well except turquoise which tried to run.
Drawn with a S Pitt sepia pen and a Lamy Ef w brown Noodlers ink in it.
Margaret ready to knit abit. Xoxoxo
My Bird Count
Seven cardinals 30 or more finches 3 or 4 doves plus titmice and chickadees. They also fly off and lands in swarms.
Audubon back yard bird count coming up soon. How do you count them ?!! One lands and another takes off. Hmmm
Bet a few of these get some color like the cardinals predictably.
Sepia F Pitt pen aka extra fine brown. Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook
Did I say more rain predicted for Tuesday.
Margaret already onto another pair of socks. Xoxoxo
Rainy days
Poor soaked birds are flocking to the feeders on the back porch. I counted more than 20 finches six cardinals 2-4 doves chickadees wrens and titmice plus a blue jay or two. I could tell how many of they wore name tags. lol.
Drawn in a small alpha stillman and birn with an XF sepia pitt pen which barely smears at all despite my efforts.
Poor soaked finches out the den door
I couldn’t resist coloring the Cardinals for just a tiny pop of color. They are such gorgeous birds especially when they fluff up to stay warm on cold wet days. I colored them with watercolor pencils.
Margaret who turned the heel on her sock and is sliding toward the toe on this rainy day. Xoxoxo
Always watching
On the back porch a cardinal male is always watching to be sure there are no cats or squirrels lying in wait while the birds eat seeds on the back porch. He stands up tall and swivels his head.
I painted this with my tiny whiskey painters box and a water brush. The paint box was great the water brush not so much.
Thank goodness I had an old sable paint brush handy to the sofa where I sat as I painted. Did I say a new off white lazy boy cloth sofa. Oopsey. Well it survived and so did I.
Stillman and Birn Alpha Lamy Ef with brown noodler Ink
Cad red and alizarin bird cobalt and burnt umber in background and his mask.
Just back from Just Mercy. Highly recommend both the book the movie and the audible version. A true story of justice gone wrong in the south and how it was fixed. W
Margaret ready to knit.
Heading to Brevard
I past this cute cabin on the way into Brevard over the holidays but lazy me just got around to painting the sketch.
I stood on the side of Highway 64 on a bright cool day to draw the cabin which was so cheery and bright in its field. Not always easy to find a place to draw on the busy windy mountain road.
Here’s the sketch. On some kind of cold press watercolor paper. Probably Fabriano.
I used a lot of white gouache on the tree in the foreground which was fun. Have a rough texture over the grey of the smeared pen.
Sky is Cheap Joes Andrews turquoise. Gold is Daniel Smith quin gold. I mixed burnt sienna and the Andrews turquoise for the trees greens and the greys. Love dual purpose colors
Micro Uniball pen.
Margaret ready to hang it up for the day xoxoxo
A Commission
A good by present for a friend that I was commissioned to do. It’s suppose to be a book cover for a book club group present with her house in the background. 
I did do it in pencil first. Also trying to get everyone’s name on it. Still missed one. Sigh. No matter how many times I checked. You have to wonder how that happens. 
Here it is inked and ready to paint.
Drawn with a Lamy vista. Lettering a Lamy joy on Fabriano cold press.
She loved it they loved it. Back to my knitting. Margaret Xoxoxox whose managed to post three days in a row. However one sock is almost done. Turquoise cashmere. How decadent is that??! 🥰
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 