Took a photo of this small wagon in Rouen. 
I love old French cars and all the fabulous French doors.
Rue de Florence Rouen Normandy France
Why didnt I use the second one. Duh. I know redo time. Another sketch. Lol.
Twisbee pen Dartrementis document brown Ink hahnemuhle journal. Not liking the paper a lot. Charles Reid palette colors.
Margaret Xoxoxox who has one more Baldacci book to read before her Amos Decker binge is done. Xoxoxo
Of Asheville to see my 92 year old mom.
A foot sketch while I caught up the latest episode of Game of Thrones. NO spoilers allowed!!
All Watercolor pencil. Hahnemuhle sketch book.
Margaret on the road again. Hmm might be my middle name. Xoxoxox
Ponce City these need W O R K lol
The old DeKalb County court house. A guy walking by on Ponce said it was beautiful. He didn’t notice my egregious error. Or that darn fly lol. 
That’s better.
These are all 9×12″. Stillman and birn Alpha. Lamy Joy and Lamy Vista. My Ef was out of ink. I was actually going to paint today. I seem to have left my whisky painter box at home. Darn. I lugged some water brushes all over town. No paint. 😵😵😵
Watercolor to come.
Margaret off to a family dinner and an awards nite for Henry. Xoxoxo
Thanks to all my followers the new the old and the recent. I am so tickled and grateful.
Trying to get ready for masters week which means lots of sales at Art on Broad. The visitors love Augusta landmarks. I am sure there are 100 of them if I look and talk to my friend Robbie Harrell.
The Cotton Exchange 300lb 11×15″
I never can leave well enough alone. Should have stopped here I think. Now I have to do something to it. 
I think I am going to have to paint the tree on the left. I will splatter it first then see. 
I also drew it in my sketchbook. 
Since I filled the page it didnt leave that big blank spot on the left. I can crop it out still. Probably the easy way out.
Colors used cobalt blue for shadows and windows w burnt sienna and quin sienna. Building is cad red burnt sienna and alizarin and a touch of cobalt. Roof is DS green from Kim’s class and cerulean. Sky cerulean.
Cropped.
Cotton Exchange story. At one time more cotton was sold around the world from this building than another place except the cotton exchange in I think Savannah. Cotton lined Reynolds street stacked 6 8 feet high for blocks in the early 1900s. And the warehouses surrounding it were full of more cotton that was shipped by train and down the Savannah River.
Did a lot of urban sketching yesterday since the sunlight was gorgeous.
St Paul’s Dome a block farther down the street. 
Holy Trinity I
Holy Trinity II
After I drew the first one I realized it would make a great double long spread. That said the sky will be gouache when I get done.
Maybe I will get these painted sometime soon. Gouache required for the messed up skies.
My new BFF I am calling Dot. An alpaca that lives in a field about a mile from my house. I finally took pics of him yesterday on my way home when I noticed he was near the fence. So cute. Now I want one.
Hoping I don’t kill all his pretty wispy curls.
Margaret off to shower and dress. Company coming. Xoxoxox
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My nieces sweet house where I stayed in Charlotte for class. It’s just a small house but the perfect size with a small perfect kitchen fabulous bathrooms. Three bedrooms and hardwood floors. Screened porch and front porch. A great yard. What else do you need. Oh handy to downtown class
Drawn with a Lamy Safari in my stillman and birn. I painted this with my paints left from class. DS sepentine Green House grass with a dab of hookers Mineral violet shadows yellow ochre for the trim. 
Roof trees are manganese and quin sienna. Trees have a dab of burnt umber as does the fence. Manganese sky. A bit of alizarin crimson for the pinks added while wet. And some brilliant purple for the iris.
All the painting was done wet on wet so the colors would mingle on the page.
Margaret xoxoxo
12×16″
Tonite Feb 24 at Sacred Heart. My sketch as well as 70 other pieces of art will be up at silent auction for adoption to decorate your walls with some fabulous art. 
There will be some wild fun entertainment engineered by Vintage Oolie. Always interesting. All money raised goes to the Augusta Arts Council.
I was trying to keep the sketch light and loose. I meant to take a photo of the ink drawing which was not exact just close. Loosening up as Bob Burridge would say. I was also trying to keep it transparent.
I really loathe painting trees with watercolor and it always seems to show. I had to work on them a lot to get them right. Multiple Layers.
SKY – blotted the washes as I laid them down to get cloud. Used cerulean blue and some verditer blue.
Building – quin coral quin gold with dioxzine purple and cobalt blue with some cerulean and quin burnt orange for the greys.
Trees – quin gold, Daniel Smith gold green, cobalt, ultramarine blue, dioxzine purple and mineral violet.
Come on out. Always a fun event.
Margaret xoxoxox
This letter from WordPress Discover was in my in box this am. Too exciting. 🤗
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🔘Now about that picture. A remembrance of our adventure at the Center for the Puppetry Arts a big hit with Henry and I. The troupe does an amazing job. Extremely professional and a very well done show.
The painting is done with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette in my Stillman and Birn Alpha drawn with one of my Lamy’s.
The museum is incredible. A great Jim Henson section. 
Yes Kermit and Miss Piggy are there. And the Fraggles. 
Historical puppets from around the world. Indian shadow puppets. l
Lots of interactive child friendly exhibits.
A Chines puppet I think. 
Scar from Lion King. 
The large puppets from War Horse.
Just a great place. Henry wanted to go again and see the Gingerbread Boy show. We should have. So much easier than Fernbank.
Put the Center for the Puppetry Arts on your must see Atlanta list. You will love it. Ask Henry!!
Margaret xoxoxox whose excited about WordPress Discover!! Yeah
Pretty exciting news to me. I would like to thank and welcome all my new followers. Did I did I do that already!? Probably but hey thanks again!!
And did I say 
Happy New Year!!!
So time to post some art. This is Peachtree about the 1400 block right near the Center for the Puppetry Arts. Not yet painted. I was on my easy from Aam Flaxs to Dick Block/Utrecht store.
What color there is was done with a tea bag. Had no idea it would color it so much just painting. If it gets too soupy it will run thru the binding in my Stillman and Birn but then so will watercolor. 
Another blank page colored with my teabag. Kinda fun. Try it.
Margaret whose getting three free hours and a babysitter so I gotta run.
Happy New Years and thanks again for all the follows. Hugs xoxoxo
Pleased to announce that some of my urban sketches and some of my mixed media sketches will be for sale at Wolf and Finch on 859 Broad Street during Arts in the Hearts.
Ttyl more paintings to get ready. Stay tuned!! Xoxoxo margaret
Really pleased with the way this one turns out. Don’t know why I didn’t post it sooner. I had a lot of trouble with pens. Four in my purse and NO ink in any of them. How is that possible. Met some friends at the new Starbucks on Bobby Jones. Really nice BIG Starbucks. I drew the people in front of me. Some walked off some walked in.
The cars were a lot of fun to draw. Next time I am drawing my Prius in the painting lol. Artist car 🚗 self portrait.
Even like the way the crepe Myrtle turned out. I painted the whole thing wet in wet letting the colors melt into each other.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Ttyl !Margaret xoxoxox
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