Last day in Decatur being lazy on the front porch drinking tea and drawing lazy Lucy dog on the porch.
Lamy Ef to paint or not is the question.
Margaret on the last episode of stranger things. Too much excitement!! 😳😳😳😳xoxoxo
Category: Lamy
Day 2118 Out the window
My favorite kind of urban sketching sitting in the AC looking out a window. Don’t like to sweat. Lamy Vista Noodler Eelskin Ink. Superaquabee sketchbook.
This street has some awesome bungalows on it so great sketchable views out all its huge windows.
Tip: turn the pen upside down to make finer lines.
Margaret done for the day xoxoxo
Day 2117 So many blues
This painting is all about using different blues.
The High has several gun slit shaped wndows – tall and narrow- at the ends of corridors. They always have interesting views.
I had to think long and hard how to paint this one because basically all the buildings were a version of white and grey.
The sky is cobalt. I used cerulean and burnt sienna for greys onthe right hand building. the left building got more cobalt watered down.
Then I started adding black made with cerulean and burnt umber.
The changes are almost imperceptible.
Anyway grandkids time in Decatur. Ttyl
Xoxoxo Margaret
Day 2116 Court reporter part deux
These were such fun to color with the tombows whilst I watched tv last night. Four tombows flesh green and two blues one of which was light. The other was so dark I could use the blue on my brush for shadows. 
Think the color improved him greatly.
Page two colored. Just used two tombows flesh and a wierd green. Then added water to the green. You never know what will happen with tombows. Sometimes good sometimes not.
This is before. I think it too was improved by color even though it’s simpler.
These are my friend Ruth Pearls. You can follow her on Instagram at Britpeach She used Derwent watercolor pencils and a copic market.
Her second one. I think the bottom sketch somehow is perfect of Mueller. Such expression.
Margaret who wants to finish her book called. The Irressistible Blueberry Bakeshop and café. I think I have gone Blueberry crazy baking too many blueberry pound cakes. I discovered I am NOT a lover of big wads of cooked blueberry. However I have friends that LOVE it.
Day 2114 Done done done
Think this one is done. I added shots of burnt sienna to the gold and a few wet splatters softening the edges w water. Added a few washes out cerulean strokes mixed w palette mud here and there for shadows. A bit of flesh to the people. 
Before the quin gold and cad yellow was over powering the sketch. So when it’s messed up there’s nothing to lose playing with it. 
The original sketch.
Lamy EF Noodler Eelskin Ink stillman and birn Zeta.
Margaret who really needs to contact wordpress to get rid of the annoying popup in the ap. xoxoxo
Day2112 hmm that looks wrong
Out the second floor window at the High
This still needs work. Meant to do it today but went to Lion King instead. It was almost standing room only. The cgi was amazing. The animals looked so real.
And still haven’t decided if this is done. Maybe there’s too much yellow background?! Seemed like a good idea except I don’t seem to like one solid color. Will have to think about this.
When I was home I spent a lot of time looking for a sketch of Kate I did a while back. Finally found it in the FIRST palace I looked. And I looked there several times. How did I miss it. Now to get Miss Kate painted. Time is running OUT!!
Margaret who has to watch the first Fantastic Beasts so I can figure out what was going on in the second one. Of course I find all the cgi highly entertaining. Xoxoxo
Day 2111 Happy Anniversary?!
Why does WordPress say if s my anniversary. Maybe I did start here in July four years ago. Before that I was on blogspot for seven years.
A quick post of a drawing I did at the High of a Rodin statue. Background is quin gold. I scribbled the museums info card on the background in pencil.
Drawn with my Lamy Vista Noodler Eelskin Ink.
Margaret who is watching the Fantastical Beasts-the Crimes of Grinwald. Xoxoxox
Day 2104 A trend
Of ink sketches. No ideas why the pic is not brighter since I took it in bright sunlight. Marilyn Hartley watching the professor paint. The one on the right looks just like her. Forget the left one.
Lamy EF. Noodlers Eelskin Ink hahnemuhle journal.
Margaret Xoxoxox
Day 2103 Another Day Another window
You would be surprised to see what you can get drawn in line at a chic fil a. The line during lunch moves so slowly though they try their best to make it move quickly. Sooner or later I bet there will be a wreck between impatient customers waiting in those lines.
I was stopped in line when I drew the cars in roughly. And the stop sign the trees girl in the stand. That line took quite a while. As I was heading to home aka getting my food I was done.
Noodler brown Ink Lamy Ef hahnemuhle journal which is almost full.
Margaret Xoxoxoxo
Day 2102 Out the Window challenge
Somebody moved the chair or maybe it’s the morning light on the house next door but it makes an intriguing difficult to draw geometric.
Are the proportions right. Not quite but I think close enough. What do you think?
I even think it might make an interesting abstract painting.
Lamy Ef Noodlers brown Ink hahnemuhle journal which is already falling apart after a month of use. Annoying. Back to stillman and birn after this.
Margaret in Atlanta heading home soon. Xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 