I actually took this out on our wet back deck to photograph when the rain let up. You get more accurate color photos on an over cast day or so they say. The great debate was on as to whether it was done. I decided it was.
Nature does not hurry and yet everything is accomplished. (Lao Tzu) is the theme of this painting.
Margaret xoxoxox who had enough excitemnt for today. Lol.
Ten minute pose
Maggie xoxoxo
Day lilies abound in the western North Carolina mountains. I don’t think there is a more gorgeous spot than there.
Watercolor pencil in my stillman and birn Alpha.
Wildflowers everywhere. 
A sweet cabin on a trout stream. 
Wild lace cap hydrangeas line the riverbanks the road and the hiking trails.
Down the hill path is the largest waterfall on our property on the Thompson River. 
Tall Falls
Margaret ready to do nothing xoxoxo
I sit. Lamy Ef and Namiki Fude. Trying out different effects that the Fude can do. Lots of smudging.
Meant to post yesterday but completely forgot while packing to go to the cabin. This is the story of the black snake. He’s in the Apple tree in the foreground. Slithered off the porch where I am all the way over to the tree in a half an hour or so.
Out my back window with pencil. One of those cheap pencils u can get in a box of 12 at staples.
Stillman and Birn Alpha. Xoxoxo
The view from where I sat and drew today. You can rent it on VRBO Sweetwater Flyfishing camp. Bytw my son and grandson pulled five trout out of the river in a half an hour today. One was a foot long rainbow. Yummm. 
One of six waterfalls at Sweet Water. This is at the fishing and swimming pool. The rest are big ones.
Margaret xoxoxo
Stops around here. Took another paintalong with Vlad Yesileyev. 
Maybe I will like this better tomorrow.
Vlads. Better pic on Fb tomorrow.
For some reason I seem determined to cross every t and dot every eye though I have known from freshman art that’s a no no.
My value study.
Loved his explanations that surround it.
First wash now that it’s been thinned out. 
is Vlads.
Not a sketch of the cabin but a random house on the road into Brevard from Sapphire. Scene Looks pretty in the morning sun so I pulled into a loggers driveway across the road and drew it.
Drawn on some random loose paper in the car with a black ultra fine uniball pen.
Almost a week with no wifi no cable. We twitch our noses at it will start up fro a second or two two bars of u are lucky. Then without even moving the signal is gone. 😵🤔 So didn’t even bother with blog posts.
Time to get back in the swing of things. Hmm why didn’t I draw my croissant. Sooo good at Bracken Mountain Bakery in Brevard.
Headed into Brevard to meet a freeing from USC Aiken to do an art gallery walk in Brevard. Hard to do when you have young grandkids along. We tend to hit the toy store and the ice cream shop which are also a lot of fun.
The wild flower field in front of the cabin. Now brown but it’s so gorgeous when it’s full of purple Dutch iris and lupine. Later Joe Pye weed fills the field. 
And the mighty Thompson Rover from the front porch of the cabin. Best wild fly fishing river publicly accessible in the WNC aka western North Carolina. My son is lucky enough to own that stretch. The rest is in the Nantahala National Forest.
Thought you might like to see the order of the sketchbook so far. Still at least one more sketch to paint which will go here in the order. Painted on Kilimanjaro with Ted Nuttalls Transparent colors or Charles Reid Palette. Pen Lamy Safari loaded with Noodler Black.
Seemed like and especially good idea to me
Since the upstairs AC was dripping water thru the ceiling and it’s turned off.
So I “slept” on the den sofa
But mostly tossed and turned
Getting just a few hours of sleep.
AC fixed. Nap time now. Enjoy. Margaret xoxoxox worn out.
The Cabin sits on the Thompson River one of the best wild trout rivers in North Carolina and it’s one of the few places there is access to it. 
The property is surrounded by Nantahala National Forrest so the only access to the Thompson at the fish camp.
The rhidodendrons were in full bloom last week as was the wild flower meadow. Gorgeous setting. The shed is a picnic shed with adirondack chairs and a fire pit over looking the river.
Ttyl Margaret heading home today xoxoxo I mean we have to watch GOT tonite right?!
Finally happy with one of the paintings. About time. 
I got out my #2 Isabey mop to loosen up and I think it worked.
Always does because it’s impossible to be exact with a mop.
These spreads are long. About 6×15 so they are time consuming to paint.
Painted with Ted Nuttall Palette of transparent colors. 
Bytw don’t people know they are suppose to wear red white and blue on the fourth. What’s with all the grey shirts!?
Thanks for stopping by. Margaret with three more to paint from this trip. Xoxoxo
The title page is done. Not to sure about that rainbow trout but that seems par for every page I am doing lately. Lol.
Earlier this week. How many more pages to paint?! Two or three.
I don’t know if I said but this is a copy of a sketch I did for their guest book. Only that one is just in black and white.
Bytw the water was painted with my #2 Isabey mop. Drawing with my Lamy Safari on Kilimanjaro cold press #140 paper.
Back to sneezing.
Margaret xoxoxo
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