The first ink layer
Taking a painting class in Raleigh with Julio Reyes and Candace Bohannon on egg tempura painting like Andrew Wyeth did.
My friend Mike talked me into taking it because she loves Andrew Wyeth and his realism.
First we mixed our egg tempura paint. That took all day. 
We separated our yolks from the eggs and rolled them around on paper towel to remove the last of the egg white.
Then we pierced the egg yolk sack and squeezed the yolk out.
You have to check your paint to see if your paint mix is thick enough by painting stripes letting them dry and scraping them off. 
If they curl the egg tempura is thick enough.
Step 2 the watercolor underlayer. Not wild about the greys but ok.
Now I hate it. Blobby streaky ickkkk. I hear it gets worse before it gets better. Let’s hope it does. The only thing I still like about her is the hair.
And don’t tell my friends but I used a size 0 and a 1 on this painting. Eeek. I never use anything smaller than a ten.
What was I thinking of???
Margaret in rainy Raleigh xoxoxo
He was the first lieutenant in an amazing, terrible battle called the Battle of Fox Hill during the Choisin Reservoir campaign during November 1950.
Mom listened to the news back home saying he and all of the two regiments of the first Marine division -10000 men- were lost in frozen North Korea surrounded by 100000 Chinese. 
Only in Key West will you see a hen on the table finishing somebody’s lunch. Bytw she liked the lettuce a lot. Another hen tried to steal it from her and so began a wild chase between the chickens fighting over the lettuce.
Thinking about taking him home with me. Don’t u think he would like living on the river instead of by a swimming pool?! I just love ibis.
A sketch of the cute bungalow next door. To say it’s a cottage is a misnomer. It’s big. Really big. The roof is rolled like one on a British cottage. Peachy brick with yellow ochre trim.
The sketch in ink. Done with my Lamy vista with Noodler eelskin ink. Painted with a waterbrush. Did I say I am not fond of them at all. Hard to move color around. And I used my tiny tiny whiskey painter brush. It does work but rally ended by larger brushes.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 