In my small Stillman and Birn alpha w a Office Depot mechanical pencil.
I measured his head when I drew this one by holding up my 2B mechanical pencil. His head is very long and narrow. Kind of like the rest of him. He’s 6’3”. Lots of whiskers. Mustache and goatee. Going grey but still has a lot of pepper in his once black hair.
Next up a watercolor or two of him sooner or later.
Been a busy week. And I am tired.
Won’t load photos. Won’t let you type. “Corrects” words and makes them misspelled. Sigh.
Mostly sennelier Pastel on mi teinte 15×20”also used a few Unison. And a variety of other hard pastels.
Did I say I bought a new bigger set of pastels from Amazon. Sennelier of course. Yes I did!! I bought that. It will be here first of February. Can’t wait.
One set of Sennelier wasn’t enough. If Sennelier was good enough for Degas Monet and Picasso – well I need.
So nice and creamy but don’t drop them on the floor. Oops!! Hmmm maybe I need to put a rug down?! Or a towel??
Margaret ready for bed. Xoxoxox tired from drawing all day.
It’s that time of the year and so far I have done seven drawings. That’s a new high. Usually do one or two and stop.
And a superhero quilt for my oldes grandson. His request.
Also baked and baked and then baked some more. Pumpkin spices cookies. Choc chip cookies. Scratch biscuits. A quiche. Pumpkin streusel muffins. I am tired now. Nite nite.
Margaret xoxoxox
Is what you get when you paint over a nonpermanent ink pen. I forgot I went over the letters with a pilot varsity pen which is NOT apermanent. 😫😫😫
I do have plans to fix this so stay tuned. Sometimes they don’t get done in one day.
Zoe actually held her pose for me because she was giving me the jrt stare which means she wants something. And I wasn’t giving it to her aka outside Now. She really wanted to go out and bark at her nemesis two very tall Pointers the neighbor dogs.
I thought coloring the background red was a good idea. It was too pale so I had to keep coloring it and then I added orange which helped.
But these do look better colored. ESP like the jrt head colored orange too.
Margaret ready to watch some comedy on tv to be happy. Xoxoxo
Eat a large chocolate bar. It will keep you up most of the night. But oh was it good.
I took another photo of The Farm using my Ott light to light it up. Much more accurate photo. Can’t wait til Saturday for the next class.
Drawing with Koosje. A corner of the living room really my den.
Lamy Stillman and Birn Alpha.
We drew masks with Danny at noon. Now we have to pick one out and make a paper bag mask. 
I had to write down what I thought they were saying. That was fun. Can you find the Covid monster?! Lamy Safari Stillman and Birn Alpha. Only five spreads left but I got a new one from Amazon. Hurrah.
Sweet Ilaina. Missing my painting peeps.
Digging around for my 140 # rough press Fabriano I found this. Always liked it. Still have the photo to finish it. Full sheet on Waterman cold press I think.
Got some decent pics of the Downy that hit the window this am. So pretty.
Not sure what he is but cute. A sparrow?! Where’s the bird book?!
Loves this female cardinal on the thistle feeder. Adoreable.
Distancing in SC
Margaret ready for bed despite my excellent afternoon nap while watching Mary Berry at Highclere Castle on YouTube. Zzzz
Xoxoxox😘
Margaret xoxoxo
yesterday. Not sure why since I had this sketch of Zoe all ready. 
Lamy Safari Stillman and Birn Alpha watercolor pencil background a
Zoe wondering why I kept calling her name and adjusting her head. She never quite returned to her pose so her heads Bit too wide. 
Surprised she just didn’t lie down like she usually does and take a nap.
That said I have been preaching f to family and friends about facemask wearing for a month now. I can’t seem to get the time and energy together to get enough made so am sharing these directions with everyone I can find. I felt liked the canary in the coal mine tweeting away about masks til today when Dr David Agus said YES wear masks on CBS Morning show today. I mean if they work for medical why not us.
SO WEAR A MASK!!!
Can’t seem to make Enough masks to even cover my family’s noses.
So these are great NO sew directions.
The time has come for us all to wear masks now that the docs are starting to say wear face masks. Yesterday I discovered this very easy to make face mask. NO SEWING!!!
https://myhaymac.com/2020/04/01/easy-and-fast-no-sew-face-mask/
You can use a filtrete air condition filter to line it – The very expensive FOLDED kind that are hypoallergenic and filter bacteria and VIRUSES.
TWO layers of filter. They have to have a Merv Rating of 1900-2200 and cost $25-50 each but each make lots of masks
You can also use vacuum hepa filters as a filter .
Please wear a face masks when you leave the house to protect yourself and everyone else.
And share this with those you love and maybe some you don’t so we can get back to our normal lives and stop this plague.
Masks can be sterlized by 30minutes at 170° or greater. Dont use microwave (metal nasal fitment will spark). Also dont contiminate mask storage bag.”
The very pregnant stray cat
Virtual hugs!! See you soon!
Our my window.
Love this artist Charlie Macksey !!!
Love you guys. Margaret thinking nap on sofa momentarily xoxoxo
Well Kinda sorta. 
45 min sketch of Macy 15×22″ cold press fluid paper looking like an outtake from an Egon Schiele nude exhibit. His nudes were always stick thin with long bodies.
Is she finished??! No!!! She was 45 min late and I had to get back to Augusta for a hair cut. One MUST not miss your hair appointments ever!!
Hopefully I will get around to finishing her tomorrow in between drawing the eight talking heads testifying this week. 😳😳😳
Margaret trying to resist the urge to binge the crown and then there’s also Night manager by John LeCarre that I finally found on amazon. Ps. I did see the Good Liar with Helen Mirren and Ian McKellan. Hard to go wrong with that combo. Interesting and a twist. Love a twist. Xoxoxox
This post was stuck in my scheduled posts box. I don’t know if I posted but it’s such a great post can’t hurt posting again.
Watching Charles Reid paint a person is like watching someone make magic. He twitches his brush here and here. 
Stating at the nose suddenly there’s a fabulous painting of a person.
John was our model today. He did a wonderful job.
Charles painting. 
The Master Charles Reid the most talented watercolorist in America today.
My sketch.
Painting
More painting.
Charles said time to quit so I did and I started another of John. Let ok’ing at him he needs more shadow on his cheek to define his cheek bone. Maybe a highlight lifted also on the cheek and more shadow in his brow.
John and his Jack Russell Jedi.
We all adored Jedi 
Especially me. Missing my Zoe. 
One more of Jedi and his dad John.
My second drawing. I had about forty five minutes left to paint him.
Progress.
Times up. Hmm think he needs more hair but I like this one best of the two paintings.
Up to the rooftop the rain had ended.
A tugboat heading up river.
Night on the river
A paddle boat passing by while I waited for my car.
Look who decided to jump in bed with me tonite. My friend Karen’s collie Carly. What a sweetheart.
Tomorrows model Carver whose mom looks like Madonna.
Nite nite. Margaret xoxoxo
Our three old Jack Russells – Charlie the best jack russell ever til Zoe, Jazz Manic feature and Susie super mom.
A few more oldies from The box. 
Charlie
Blind contours. Something I haven't done for a while. You are suppose to keep your pen always on the page while looking only at whatever you are drawing.
Of course I had to color some of them. Jazz had big funny feet even though she was a tiny dog.
The jack Russell state. As in when are u going to play ball with me?
jazz 
Jazz
Jazz
all of these are blind contours of Jazz. 
They are just delightfully wonky sketches done in a minute or two.
Hmm well she did have very short legs and a really long body. Maybe she was a daschund disguised as a jack ,,.
Ttyl tomorrow's Saturday. You know what that means.
Hugs Margaret xoxoxo
Last page in this sketchbook. Hurrah. So I decided to draw another page of Zoe. 
Zoe is always up for a modeling job. She's cheap. She works for treats! She is NOT good at holding a pose. Her ears are always listening. Rotating line radar to see what you are doing. 
I really like the way this head turned out. Both the sketch and the watercolor. 
This is my second favorite head. I was drawing fast.
I still had not filled up my pens and reached into my purse to see what I had. Pulled out a 6B Charcoal pencil and drew with it.
After I painted her I set the charcoal with fixative. So far it seems to not be smearing. Cross your fingers.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook. Colors used. Quin burnt sienna cerulean cobalt Andrews Turquoise.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox
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