KW style on Terry Lane between Petronia and Olivia.

Only two blocks long Terry Lane is loaded with really cute little houses. The Urban Sketchers of Key West have been meeting every Wednesday for years. The call goes out on FB.

Gorgeous greenery. You just have to ignore the trash cans. Lol. Chickens ran by as we painted and our new bff Casserole hope for rub or two. She rolled one way and then another hoping for attention. After all it was her front step I was sitting on.

14×18” cp fluid paper

Did the next two houses too. A chicken obligingly ran by again as I drew this one.

Then we went around the corner to eat at Blue Heaven in Petronia. We LOVE Blue Heaven. Fabulous food in a funky setting. Buckets of ice tea and killer BLT eggs Benedict. (Bacon, Lobster, Tomato) topped off with a Key Lime pie we shared.

Well I still have to paint it.

So hot. 90 plus and steamy. Feels like 96. Drip drip. But that didn’t stop Tam and I from stopping at a cute new gallery on Petronia on the way back to the car. I mean they had urban sketches selling for hefty prices.

Painted with my Charles Reid palette. Colors used cerulean, peacock blue, burnt sienna, cad yellow light, cad red, ultramarine, alizarin, green apatite and olive green

Nap time. Ttyl. Margaret off to the palm gardens at 6. How much can we cram into one day. Pool party? With free sangria and hot dogs and hamburgers.

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We ate at B.O.’s Fish Wagon down on the harbor on Caroline St for lunch today.

They have the most awesome decorated truck which was right behind Jan. We teased her and made her blow him an air kiss which she good naturedly did.

The food is good in this junk pile of a restaurant literally made out of scrap found on the beach after hurricanes.

And the chickens were anxious for our handouts. I fed them all the yellow peppers from my salad.

Off to Draw and Drink at The Green Parrot.

Margaret xoxoxo

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at the Hyatt Tiki Bar in a Key West. Tough life doing exactly what you want all day in paradise. My portable painter palette filled w Holbein m Graham and Daniel smith paint. . Fluid cp 140# a caran D’ache watercolor brush. Wonder where the other one is.

Still needs the sky. I like painting with the water brush but not the sky. Way too demanding for it. Or maybe for me using it. Going to use my kolinsky da Vinci #10 sable for it. I also think it could use a few more darks but the sun kept catching me so now I am chilling on the condo porch.

Did some editing of the tiki bar when people arrived on the left side of the bar. I didn’t ask them to move. Lol. I just walked around to the left and drew them there. Only one tiki god. There are two! Changed the chair color too. Artistic license.

A bien toit. Margaret xoxox

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The southern most point in the US the Conch Republic a country unto itself.

Where the temps are a balmy 85.

And weird things and people abound.

The fish and the shrimp are fabulous.

Where you can eat dockside and enjoy the sea breezes.

Or slowly meander down the keys on the overseas highway.

Stopping to eat more good food on Key Largo at Buzzards Roost waterside at the Garden marina.

And listen to some Caribbean steel drum music before the strenuous last 125 miles to Key West.

Oh and enjoy their delicious shrimp basket. First sketch of the day. Buzzards Roost on Key Largo for lunch.

And all kinds of fascinating places to sketch. Sooner or later to paint in my coloring book.

I mean it’s paint or eat my fish tacos. Guess which one won?

Sooner or later these will get colored like this one at Malias.

Madeline Tosh sock Sprouting sock by Hedgehog Fibers

Lamy Safari and EF in my stillman and birn.

Margaret ready to put her feet up. Xoxoxoxo

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How else can we get thru a 800 plus mile drive to Key West?! Nuff said.

This pair is actually done. Yeah. Cashmere for a special person.

Talk to you all tomorrow. Margaret where it’s too dark to see to kit anymore socks. Xoxoxox

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I mentioned was it only Monday?!!

Same gesture after I used a water loaded brush on the soluble graphite I drew them with.

I went they ALOT Of paper doing these one minute gesture drawings of Nova.

Water makes the graphite much darker.

Before water

After adding water and a few more pencil lines.

Before

Hmm I didn’t have an after pic. Oops.

I think adding water brought them into focus.

I quite like the head on this one. A one minute scribble can seem to last along time when you are trying to draw a figure.

What??! The fetal position. Really?!

Added water

Then I got out the art graph carbon box. It’s released by water too. Well I added ultramarine blue but I think they are quite interesting.

Now I have to decide whether or not to paint them with color like this one.

Margaret who is ready for bed after staying up too late and running around town all day today. Xoxoxoxo hmm and painting all morning. #fluid #atlantaartistcenter #watercolor #art #painting #artist #portrait #aquarelle #georgia #atlanta #charlesreid #watercolor #artist #painter #aquarelle #lifestyleblogger #lifestylechange #drawing #sketching #lifemodel #nude #nudesketch #nudeart #nudemodels #portrait #portraitpainting #portraits #portraitart

Work in Progress. 19×22 1/2″ -HP Fluid 140#

I think her name is Alluria or close. So many LONG arms and legs. Well she had the usual number but they were all so long and slim and twisted around thru all the gesture poses and then the long pose. Eeekkk. I wonder what’s with how I flattened her bottom on the left side. Hmm easy to fix BUT duh what did I do.

The sketch. See her left leg had a curved bottom edge.

Grisaille layer of burnt umber and ultramarine with a fab of mineral violet. Should have added the mineral violet at the end. Also dabs of burnt sienna and peacock blue.

When you only have a couple of hours to paint a whole person doing grisaille takes too long to dry if you don’t have a hair dryer. Was lucky that she chose to turn her back to us.

It eliminated dealing with a face since there was plenty to deal with doing just the back view.

Love the shot of alizarin crimson across her bottom.

Colors used burnt umber, ultramarine, burnt sienna and peacock blue, hematite burnt scarlet and mineral violet.

Loving the HP fluid watercolor paper. I actually taped it down today and it looks flat as a flitter now that she’s dry and I used a lot of water in her.

Still have to finish the drape she’s sitting on. Cerulean Ann’s cobalt so far.

Margaret finally home and unpacked putting her feet up to eat her chic fil a Market salad. Xoxoxo

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