Watching out takes from Game of Thrones on YouTube – Game of thrones – funny moments part 11. There are at least 14 of them and most are very funny. 
I think I fixed Zoe. More or less. Hahnemuhle art journal burnt sienna alizarin mixed neutral tint of dioxzine purple burnt sienna and ultramarine. 
A big of cerulean shadows on fur. 
on her comfy throne 
A few Zoe pics. She always wears eye liner.
Margaret who has one more episode of out takes and am ready for bed. Xoxoxox
Finally painted this. The hahnemuhle paper was a trial. Couldn’t lift any of the alizarin which is a staining color. I should have fished out my other pink for a change of color. Oh well. It’s just in the sketchbook.
Earlier. Mike reminded me to loose some edges Which I did try to do. Not easy on the hahnemuhle paper.
I think that’s why I need a Charles Reid class every year. A refresher class. Lol.
Guess this year will have to make do with the video since he’s only teaching three times a year now. 😢
The sketch.
Maybe a do over in real watercolor paper. What do you think??!
Margaret Xoxoxox
I was going to paint but NO. Not to be I did get an entry into the SC Watermedia Show. 
Waiting was the winner. 
Course I entered this copy.
I had a few other choices. Hmm
Abt 20!!
I meant to enter the Ferrier and forgot by the time I actually got logged in and password right.
Margaret who was out to lunch and never published this one. Xoxox
I can always draw Zoe in her drawn her so many times but this one just looks odd. She has her nose stuck in her comfy bed which is like a big pillow and I was sitting above her.
Not my fav Zoe sketch matter how I crop it.
Hahnemuhle journal 2 B Fabre Castell pencil. Hmm I can erase the whole thing. Something I never do with her sketches.
Good idea!!
Margaret Xoxoxox
Catching up after a week out of town. 
Thought I would share some of my fav bird photos from last week at my moms. 
Downy woodpecker – small cardinal sized bird
Really pleased with these. 
Only took about 500 or so. 😳 
Paintings or postcards from some of them sooner or later but in the meantime great for reference photos. 
Carolina wren. My very fav photo I think
It’s easy to draw a wren but harder to remember what exactly their wings look like or the white around their eyes. 
Blue Jay- they run the feeder unless the red bellied shows up.
Cardinal
OK so I like the Jays. 
Naughty bossy boys.
Or hmm are they girls??!
Tufted titmouse – sweet tiny speedy birds that zip in and out too fast for photos.
an elegant bird in his tuxedo. 
Towhee about as good as he got too. Zipped in and out or was in shadow.
Sparrow
These were taken with my handheld Nikon with a telephoto lens on sports setting. I have hit Del Del Del a lot. Sometimes I ended up with just a tree and no bird.
Margaret ready to hop in bed and finish her book the Fix by Baldacci.
My very old Mother with a lap full of my sweet puppy Zoe who loved lollying on her lap. Made them both happy. I think Zoe could be a great therapy dog. She loves occupying someone anyone’s lap.
Mom was lost in The Crown on her new Roku she got for Mother’s Day. Netflix, Amazon and Acorn should make her days a bit more interesting since Dad died last fall after 73 years of marriage. She’s wishing she had a Zoe dog. Her 18 year old Schnauzer Mattie is NOT a lap dog like Zoe. Nobody cuddles better than a Jack Russell. They were bred to ride on horses while the owners rode to the fox hunt. A snuggly dog on horse back was required. I can’t even imagine jumping a horse with a dog on the saddle in a bag, can you?! But that’s what they did.
Anyway. Bed time. Long day driving all over the countryside.
Margaret going you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Xoxoxox
A cheap
Time to head back home tomorrow. Missing my river. Heck missing my comfy bed. A sketch I did a couple of years ago.
Margaret watching the crown with mom. Xoxoxo
Dad won a blue ribbon for these when I was in high school. Do you think that’s where I got it from?!
Conte crayon.
Margaret shopping in Asheville Xoxoxox
Another not quite so old watercolor I did of the view out my back door – Along the Savannah. I painted this about 6 years ago.
12×18″ on Montvale Canson cp. NOT great paper. I got rid of it.
Margaret back to visiting with mom. Xoxoxox
An acrylic painting I did of my grandmother years and years ago.
Margaret visiting with her mom in Asheville. Xoxoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 