If at first you don’t succeed try try again. Love the flowers. The teapot not so much. So I drew another at 11 last nite.
I turned the bouquet around. Some of the yellow daisies are already drooping so better get busy painting this one. Stay tuned.
Colors used Winsor yellow, ds carmine, cobalt violet, mineral violet, oxide of chromium, viridian?, cerulean, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, cad orange, cad red light or scarlet lake, sap green.
Ttyl Margaret whose playing bridge today. Xoxoxo
My best of the three attempts I made painting this bouquet. I thought painting white flowers was hard till I did this one. Those yellow flowers were a pain.
Funny story. When I showed it to Joe Miller aka Cheap Joe he quipped if I asked Charles Reid to sign it I would have TWO charles Reid flower paintings.
So I did. Darn he didn’t do it. 🤗He did laff when I told him Joe told me to do it.
I do have this very tiny Charles Reid sketch in my class notes where he explained to me how he would paint the yellow flowers.
Unpacking almost done. Now I have to go to the grocery store for something healthy to eat. All I have in the house is a couple of apples and I want to paint them BEFORE i eat them.
And I want to paint this great Mother’s Day bouquet before it does so off I go.
I did collage the cover of my notebooks from Charles and Peggi Habets class. It’s a Strathmore Mixed Media 500 sketchbook which has such a dull brown cover.
Ttyl xoxox Margaret glad she’s more unpacked than packed.
Mari Mac aka Mari McMillan all the way from Hawaii! But used to live in Aiken SC.
Christine and Brenda. This is our fourth class together. We are the see you in May in Boone at Cheap Joes girls. I think there were seven people we have had class with every year the first week in May – Fealin Lin Ted Nuttalls and now Charles Reid.
Off to paint. Let’s see if we can get this one done today. 22×30! What was I thinking painting that big?! Too late now. No going back.
Margaret sitting on top of a mountain in Tennessee wondering what adventure we will have today. Xoxoxo
Visiting my friend Raisin in Bristol TN where she lives on top of a mountain. She has two Freisians.
This is her daughter Kendal with her horse Bo and her tiny miniature Pomeranian when the ferrier was her yesterday.
Raisin and her horse Harley while he’s getting shod. Just the most beautiful horses.
Drawn on location with a Lamy Safari on arches cold press 280#
Colors used cerulean, yellow ochre, burnt sienna and umber, ultramarine blue, cad red light and Quin rose. Off to paint. Ttyl Margaret xoxo
Fealing Lin is the next teacher at Cheap Joes. She’s so adorable and such a terrific teacher. We would have been in her class except she was booked back to back with Charles Reid first.
Watching the demo on the big tv at Cheap Joes during class.
This morning there was a little knock on our door about 7:20 am. It was Fealing. She asked us to come by and see her so we did!! What a treat!!
She started her painting while we were there. This is the initial washes. She had already drawn the painting before class.
Her palette. Her two favorite colors are Cheap Joes American Journey Hot Mama and Andrews Turquoise.
Her paint brushes. I have the same paintbrush folder and have been trying to keep it clean. Scratching that off my list.
A few of her portraits.
Always liked this old guy.
A lot of great ladies.
This is from an old photo.
Love her great old men.
What a smile. Beautiful portrait.
Margaret off to dinner with Fealing Lin and Cheap Joes. Xoxoxo
Well if sketching in the Wild Craft Eatery counts. 
Painted my sketch last night. I should have eaten my leftovers. Our third visit there and I still have some of the most amazing ravioli with tomato Gouda sauce and shiitake mushrooms leftover plus some of their delicious garden salad with pickled green beans, pumpkin seeds and cilantro lime dressing in the minifridge.
But I decided to paint instead of eat. Been eating TOO MUCH even if the food in Boone is delicious.
Should have taken more photos but was tired from hiking all over Valle Crucis.
The original sketch. Off to Charlotte to the Raptor Center for a six year old birthday party for my niece Potter.
She’s six today. Should be fun!!! HAppy Birthday Potter.
Margaret off to shower. What it might be snowing?! Xoxoxo
Happy Easter everyone. 
Raisin Carter. The chief instigator of all her friends showing up at Peggis class aka Leader of the Pack. I had fun stamping her name. I think she was a little tired from all the fun we had in Charlotte. We wore her out!!
Julie whose taking Charles Reid’s class in May at Cheap Joes with me. Wish I had taken a photo of her interesting basketball player that she was working on.
The ink sketches. Sometimes you should just leave them ink. I wasn’t using my normal skin tones of Quin coral and Quin gold. I used Quin rose and yellow ochre. So the paintings are a little dark. 
They were painted with Quin rose, yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, mineral violet, and pyrrole red. Oh and sepia for a dark brown.
Ink pen Lamy Safari filled with Carbon Platinum Black ink in a strathmore mixed media 500 journal. Love their crispy paper. Just wish they would lie flat like the Stillman and Birns do.
Happy Easter. Margaret hanging out with the grandkids who are on sugar overload xoxox
Spent yesterday hitting the art stores and taking photographs for possible future paintings at Ponce City Market.
It’s a HUGE rehabbed old Sears building on Ponce de Leon near the Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Whoever designed it kept much of the funkiness of the old building keeping the floors and the huge support columns and the ibeams in the floors.
The two panoramas give a 360 degree view of the space which is jammed packed with the smells of the 20 plus upscale chef run restaurants that allow you and your friends many delicious choices of food which you eat in the open areas.
Outside eating area is a huge interesting place called the Shed which is an enormous concrete beam structure surrounded by restaurants ok one side and stores on the other. I think it’s new construction but not sure. I really need to sit down and draw it becAuse it’s wonderful to look at.
Sunday there is an art market in the shed. Going to check that out tomorrow but since it’s Easter thinking it’s not open.
Keep taking photos of a few places that just appeal to my eye. This Caribbean food place El Super Pan is just delightfully funky with its purple lit metal overhang. Someplace I have an unpainted sketch of this place.
And my favorite golden dragon Chinese restaurant. I have painted this twice. Love that dragon.
This couple sat down inches from me at the same table Aron f one of the columns between me and the object of my attention. The golden dragon column. Yes there were other tables to sit at but no they had to block my view. Irritated with the self involved duo I snapped their photo and immortalized the French Fry couple.
Here’s the sketch I had been doing.
I love going upstairs and taking photos of the first floor over the railing.
That’s how I snapped the photo for this painting called Looking Down which was recently juried into the Anderson Center for the Arts Show which is considered a coup in South Carolina.
One of the appeals of Ponce city Market besides the delicious food are the masses of people and the odd interesting architectural elements like the large yellow and black arrow in the upper right.
I think you could find a life time of paintings on the environs of PCM aka Ponce City Market. Something about this one. The two guys one big one little trudging off across the light from the doors.
Sooner or later I will get a food pic of this bar. Maybe on my big camera not my phone. I have two hundred or so photos there.
A trip to PCM is not complete without drooling over the delicious candy shop
And my personal favorite the St Germain a PArisian themed patisserie loaded with all things Parisian – macaroons, breads, small crispy meringues, real marshmallows and cases of decadent gorgeous goodies.
Trying to resist the lure of PCM today a Sketchers paradise but there are eggs to dye and Easter prep to be done.
Ttyl
Margaret loving Atlanta even when it took me an hour and 15 min to drive 4 miles from Trader Joe’s to the house. Xoxoxo
I drew Peggy several times during class. This was the last time and looks the most like her. Fourth time the charm. She was hard to draw with a long thin nose and a tiny face.
The nose kept overpowering her tiny face when I drew her. This was the first try. And then I painted her too dark so I scrubbed her a little to lighten her up. I did have fun stamping her name and embellishing the page with a watercolor pencil.
Go round three. Nose still too big. Eeekkk. The hair is a combo of thalo and sepia.
Number four. TOO Dark!!!’ What the heck.
Better. But the face was too wide and not oval enough. I could make it narrower by adding hair.
I painted on my class sketches most of the day. Guess it’s time to do those color studies.
Margaret xoxoxo whose having a painting day.
SeVeN. HURRAH!!
I might cut back to three four times a week. What do you think I should do?!
Worked on this page this morning.
This is what it looked like this am.
What the whole three page spread looks line now.
I colored the hand green with a Prismacolor art stick. The scar letter on the right was done in a page ripped from an old Bartletts quotations.
I flipped this huge thick book open randomly to Lewis Carrol which I thought quite odd since I had a couple of quotes from Alice on the middle page. Decided to save it , read it and maybe cut up the poems on it later.
Flipped the book again without looking. Louisa May Alcott was on that page. I have read every book she wrote at least once and read Little Women multiple times. It’s also the only book I own multiple copies of.
I scribbled the letter with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum black. I ripped the letter by laying my hand on it to give it a hand shape but leave the X-ray part and glued it down.
The milagro heart was also a piece of the same Louisa May Alcott page. The shreds of the ripped up letter cut out like a heart and glued and colored. After all sometimes our hearts need a miracle.
Why a heart?! The reason for the X-ray. Some scars are hidden!! And you know your heart is one such place.
Then I colored it with Prismacolor paint sticks and tombow markers. The Tombows did really well on the black masking tape. Who knew?!
Margaret xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
