Seven to go. Used three pens. Lamy Ef or a micro uniball and sometimes a white pentel gel pen.
Margaret excited I have made it this far in inktober. Xoxoxo
Inktober – 24 Down
Category: Lettering
Inktober – One Week down!!
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.
It’s the smallest stillman and birn. 4×6”
Thought I might actually do the drawings if I didn’t have too much space to fill up. So far that’s working.
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
Strawberry Time
Most beautiful fresh onions I have ever seen complete with tops. Pulled that morning.
I left the house with $20 in cash in my pocket. by the time I went to pay for my items it was gone. No check and they do not take credit cards which I had plenty of.
A very kind man paid for mine when I told the lady I would run back to the house and find it or a check. Wow!! Thanks mystery man. His story is the pencil writing in the background. Had to commemorate the event.
Anyway Stillman and Birn Epsilon or hmm is it a Beta? heavy paper compared to the Alpha that I usually use. Uniball micro pen. American Journey watercolors.
Margaret xoxoxoxo
La Tour Eiffel
Done for the moment. Sunday Funday with Ian Fennelly. Who could resist drawing the Eiffel Tower with Ian??! Really enjoyed it despite I wore my hand out inking it. Should have taken a lunch break. 
One of my fav places in Paris esp when lit up at night. 
I sat under it on one Saturday nite drawing it. Heaven for someone who loves to sketch.
Of course I can’t find the picture of the sketch right now. A double page spread too.
The photo
The sketch. Tombow time.
Firming it up with permanent ink markers. Like the lettering but little matchbox cars. Oops. Oh well. Can’t have it all, right?!
First layer of watercolor. Four colors. Winsor Newton Brown Madder, WN Cerulean, WN Prussian Blue, and M Graham Azo Orange. Oh a dab of ivory black used as a grey.
Close up. Yummy colors. The weird brown red is the the brown madder.
Adding more tombows. Coloring with the marker end. A range of greys and black. Second sweep with watercolor. Cross hatching underway with permanent fine liners .05, .03 and .01.
Finished exhale or it got a little dark. One good thing abt fluid hotpress. You can wipe some of the color off.
Here it is now. My fav bit are the cobble stones near the crosswalk. No idea why but there it is.
But this one is still my fav.
Margaret watching Bull again. Not listening to it again. Xoxoxox
A Quick Trip to England
To draw the Harp Inn on the River Dee with Ian Fennelly and Sketchbookskool. A lot of fun but like chasing a greyhound painting with Ian.
The photo. The Harp Inn, Little Neston, England near Liverpool has quite a history including coal miners getting stuck here during floods from the River Dee across the street. The interior is on Yelp and looks quite interesting. Ian said the building was more than 200 years old.
Really wanted to do this view with the great Harp sign but hard to change from what the teachers doing without getting confused.
A quick sketch with my light grey Tombow pen – the pointy end. The lines are all slightly tilted. Nothing is square in the drawing though in reality the inn is square aka plumb.
Adding ink with my .5 pentel permanent pen. Don’t know where my thinnest one has gotten. Oops.
Laying in some watercolor. Got a little too dark with the ultramarine and burnt sienna on the roof at this stage. Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna, Yellow ochre, a dab of cad red and cobalt teal.
Painted with a 1″ flat and a rigger. Yes a rigger.
Using various grey tombows to color in the letters and other darks. Then a .3 pentel marker for line work and cross hatching.
I lifted a lot of the dark sienna and ultramarine off the house. Even though this is hot press paper the fluid paper is user friendly and lets you lift some of it. It even let me lift some of the pen when I took off the paint. Oops. But that was permanent ink. Not something u can usually lift.
I added a lot more crosshatching. Also since this house is daub finish dots all over with anything I could make dots with. Winsor Newton watercolor markers. Yellow ochre and turquoise. More line work with the .5 and .8 pentel pens and the uniball micron pen.
Now I am tahred. The kitties and the puppy want my attention. Margaret Xoxoxoxo
Toyota time
Now that I have had my second vaccine I decided time to brave the Toyota showroom cesspool and get my car a check up.
Was fun to have a real human to draw for once. This lady held quite still for a long time reading a real book.
Drawn with a fine Pitt pen stillman and birn alpha. 
Painted with this set of travel fuumuui kolinsky brushes I got from Amazon. Sizes 4,8,12. 
They have brass tubes for handles so they can collapse into the leather folder they come in. 
Nice brushes for $25. Great reviews. People love them and they hold up well.
Evidently Zoe’s kitty missed her while we were in Atlanta. This cat will not come near me. I can only pet her when she’s eating. But Zoe. Much to Zoe’s chagrin she follows her around rubbing all over her. Doesn’t she know most Jack Russells like to eat cats!? Lucky for her Zoe tolerated them.
Margaret xoxoxo
One more
High Street, Henley, UK
Hot press fluid 140# watercolor paper
I did this on a shopkeeparty.com paint along g w Ian Fennelly that I posted in my YouTube list of his classes yesterday. Lots of fun. Love hitting the Pause button.
I started painting this a little after 9 last nite. But it was fun.
The drawing and the shading. This is mostly tombow pen with some Pitt pen for details. The Pitt pens are permanent.
Watercolor layer done. I only used a few colors. Quin sienna, ultramarine, alizarin, burnt umber a dab of cerulean, and yellow ochre. Next time I will use more transparent color.
the finish. I really enjoyed doing the details in ink with Pitt pens like the column cap, the bricks, the sidewalk, tv antennas and a plethora of other details. Shading with cross hatching so much fun. It’s somehow soothing. I used a .03 Pitt pen for that. The Pitt pens have India ink in them.
Now I need to do some of Augusta or Atlanta. Really enjoy doing these. Been a pen nut since first grade and probably a painting nut even longer.
Margaret watching an ink seminar on crowdcast. My there are some positives about covid like zoom and crowdcast activities.
Xoxoxo
On a roll
Some of my favorite British birds from Paul Dinnings Videos and Sounds for Cats: Garden Birds. They really are the best bird videos I have seen on YouTube. Some people use them for a good nights sleep.
Another new Favorite is Prowalking tours. I went to Rome and Montmartre today. Think I will try Venice next. Just the beginning of it is gobsmacking.
Stillman and birn alpha pentel brush pen uniball micron Caran d’ache neocolor ii watercolor pencils and a teabag to wet the Caran d’ache.
Margaret whose going to try Wendy’s for dinner. Xoxoxox
Another day
Another bird or two. Great YouTube video full of chickadees.
Margaret xoxoxox
Sunday Snapshots
See if you can figure out what I drew!! 
I haven’t done one of these box drawings in a while. Always give u an up close view of objects. These are objects nearby me today. 
I added a tomboy marker to the background. I was afraid to go to far because it can lift the ink even the Carbon Platinum Black that I used.
Thought snapshots would be a good name for these. I was drawing Them while half watching a show about David Hockney who loves the camera. He had 100s of albums of photos that he actually painted from.
I think it would be fun to do these with a theme like Christmas or animals or kitchen objects or small drawings of your toes and fingers?! I dunno. Possibilities are endless.
Lamy EF Stillman and Birn Alpha
Margaret looking for a new good binge watch. Stay home ans stay safe!! Xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 