A quick sketch while on the beach today. Micro uniball Fabre Castro watercolor pencils stillman and birn Alpha
BYTW you can own this house for a mere $4.9 million. 5 bedroom 9 baths on the front.
My favorite watercolor pencils. Buy please tell me why there a pthalo blue instead of cerulean or cobalt. Someone please explain.
Margaret ready for bed. Another busy day manana xoxoxo
#2 Derwent Sketching Pencil small Stillman and Birn Alpha.
EMPTY. A couple of times a week I drive to Costco on the hunt for that elusive tp and sundries like Chlorox wipes and alcohol.
I drew this one to show the empty parking lot. Today when I went there were five cars there before me. Loving the early hours M-F for people over 60. They actually card us. This one old guy in front of me quipped can’t they tell my white hair and wrinkles mean I am really old. They need a card. But card they do anyway.
Got to say I feel safe in there. Sanitizing stations everywhere. The carts are sanitized too. And more wipes available if u want to do your own wipe. Hand sanitizer abounds. And miles to walk in the cool air conditioning. Just leave your debit card AT HOME. Wait they only take plastic. Touchless check out. LONG Sheets of plastic between you and the clerk. Just think most of the stock is never touched by human hands. They unload the palettes and stack them high.
Anyway pay a visit to your Costco. You will be happy. They go the extra mile!!
Margaret who can clock two miles in a Costco visit. Xoxoxo
Scribbling the birds eating and the lush greenery from all the rain.
No pencil in this sketch. Just using the Caran D’ache Neocolor ii crayons which are a lot of fun.
May hit this with water. The colors will really pop but it would loose all the scribbley lines which I like. What to do what to do. Stay tuned.
Caran d’ache Neocolor ii stillman and birn Alpha
Margaret off to Laguna Beach CA to paint with Vlad Yesilesev. You should come too. Get ready for paint to fly. Xoxoxo Have a wonderful Sunday.
We are already 160 days into the corona virus epidemic. Hard to believe but then I guess 170000 dead says it all. Right?!! 😢😢😢
So I entertain myself with drawing my back porch birds and the other animals in my life. I do love to think about what they think. So I give you the Beauty contest page 😬
Lamy Ef, Caran d’ache neocolor ii, Noodlers Eelskin Ink, Stillman and Birn Alpha.
Five kitties on my back porch. Anyone need one. Wild cats one and all but hopefully tame soon.
Terrible pics. They really are adorable playing the way kittens do.
Margaret xoxoxo who hopes you all are safe and healthy. Bet I will be drawing kitties soon but first I better wash those windows. ðŸ¤ðŸ¤ðŸ¤
My youngest son has always wanted a Mustang and last fall he finally bought one. You can read about the 64 1/2 Mustang here.
Yesterday I decided to draw it. Did I say he did not want ANY Mustang but an old vintage Mustang. He’s wanted it since at least high school. A red one.
Hmm he didn’t get a red one but he did get a lovely original Mustang in metallic blue.
Can’t decide if I ruined it coloring it. Stay tuned for more mustang torture. Ps it rides great w an engine that growls.
Lamy EF Namiki Fude Stillman and Birn Alpha Caran dache Neocolor ii
Vroom vroom vroom. Margaret Xoxoxox
Drawing vehicles with Danny Gregory today on YouTube. Every Thursday at noon if you remember. I forgot last week.
Lamy Ef Namiki Fude Noodlers Eelskin Black Ink stillman and birn sketchbook. White pentel gel pen Caran Dache Neocolor ii and watercolor
Oddly the paper seems to loose its finish once you wet the paper so the ink acts differently.
Margaret Xoxoxox who is still no more than half done with her scarf though it’s over three feet. Ps would someone please cook me some dinner. Low salt please. Xoxoxox
Is what it feels like when the power keeps going out from our crazy thunder storms. On the other hand we are getting plenty of rain. In the past years August has been a month of drought. The whole world a large dust pile.
Somebody please tell me why so many books are boring colors. A few red and orange ones. A blue one here and there but most are white black or grey. Wonder why?!
Same tools as yesterday except I paint this one with water to release the neocolor ii s power.
Here are the jays with water added to the neocolor. They darken a lot.
A fun art toy to play with. Beware heavy ink will smear sometimes. Darn it. Even if it’s waterproof.
Margaret whose been binge watching Professor T on PBS Passport. A quirky odd crime show set in Antwerp with subtitles. I think I am beginning to understand the language. Part Dutch part French and a lot of English slang. Xoxoxo.
Stay dry in this crazy summer weather.
Been feeding the birds on the back porch rails. I have been giving them red hot seed that the squirrels won’t touch. Not do the raccoons seem to.
Twins My fav pic of the jays. There are up to four at a time on the porch.
Keeps them out of range of the back porch wild cat Gus who loves to be fed but won’t let u touch her. Got to catch that baby making machine and get her fixed.
Lamy EF Namiki Fude
Caran dache neocolor ii
Eelskin Black Noodlers Ink
Margaret Xoxoxox
300 lb Fabriano rough
Away to Dubrovnik Croatia paintalong with Vlad Yesilesev today. Great fun. Lots of mad painting. Vlad was funnier than usual today and he’s always funny. You really should join us.
The photo. Not much to look at as a photo is it? 
The value sketch. Vlads. This is what we paint from. 
The sketch
First wash. Yellow Ochre alizarin cobalt and card red orange rooftops. Not much paint at all.
Heading down the sidewalk. Sky cerulean cobalt neutral tint and whatever else Vlad decided to toss into the mix.
More washes. Darker ones.
Adding browns and dioxzine purple. 
Trees cad yw cobalt ultramarine yellow ochre burnt sienna neutral tint.
And more darks. Scratching out lines. Think I might take some of the purple out of the wall but not til tomorrow.
Wildly painting lines with my sword brush which worked fine today skimming out electric lines without a problem.
Some splatters for crepe Myrtle tree flowers.
Margaret who needs a nap now. Xoxoxox
Finally got around to the last page in my sketchbook. Been sitting on the table w all the junk to get around to it. No idea why I haven’t been. 
I do intend to draw this blue jay but wanted to do that in my new sketchbook not last page in the old one. Another 90 plus pages done. Didn’t want to stick this blue boy on the last one. I do think jays are so pretty. I have been hand feeding them all week. They won’t go to the feeder. Instead they eat off the porch rails. Three of them show up every day to check the offerings. 
This might be done now BUT I couldn’t get my saber brush to work today – odd since it worked fine to do the electric lines yesterday. So I may need to do that or not.
Bakes two loves of my favorite back of the King Arthur bread bag bread today. 
One sliced and in the freezer the other on its way as soon as it’s cool. Shouldn’t be making white bread but it’s sooo good. My grandson Henry asked me to mail him some. I would if it would get there fresh but it won’t.
Margaret xoxoxo ready to knit. That scarf might be done by Christmas as this rate.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 