I was playing at drawing a la Bemelmans Madeline books a favorite of mine as a child. This is the Paris Hotel de Ville the mayors office and City Hall. 
the doors and the lampposts in Paris where beautiful and ornate in Many variations. 
The plane trees we call them sycamores line the streets of Paris.
And the Metro. Easy cheap access to the oyster that is Paris.
Margaret still In The mountains.
Xoxoxox
Auvers sur Oise where Van Gogh painted his heart out the last few months of his life and died. Was it suicide or murder. A lot of people Now think it was murder. Starving artists don’t buy guns when they need more paint and canvas. Think about that. The Raveux inn where he died is below. If you came to his funeral you got to pick out one of his paintings. Wouldn’t that have been wonderful. I would have had a hard time choosing.
Breakfast at the Hote Rochester back In Paris. 
They eat odd things for breakfast like chicken legs. Hmmm.
Notre Dame in Auvers. The one made famous by Van Gogh.
Truly Margaret xoxoxox
Dress Up Day in Pre K land. My sweet Henry already to go be a lawyer in his dads tie. Funny boy said Grandma you didn’t paint my shirt right. It was a tiny tattersall plaid. Enough plaid is enough plaid.
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Earlier.
I used my pike palette from Kim Johnson’s class. Love that Daniel smith serpentine green in the background. Also love the pike palette. Seals itself and keeps the paint moist also doesn’t seem to leak when you carry it around. Hurrah. And not very expensive. I think about $20 at cheap Joes in Charlotte. ry
Laid down a first coat of light yellow in the hair for highlights. Which I eventually painted over most of them. Duh. Also wish I had not painted the blue under his nose. Never did quite get rid of that. Oops
And that’s all folks. Hopefully the silly internet in the mountains will post this. We shall see.
Margaret hanging w the grandkids. Hard to paint when they want to help. 🤗 Xoxoxo #watercolor #aquarelle #fabriano #fabrianoartistico #danielsmith #holbein #mgraham
Three of the leaders from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High. The other two are eloquent David Hogg and Alex Winn. 
Emma was the grand finale of the March and if you haven’t heard her talk it’s a must listen to. She brought tears to all that listened to her. 
These kids are going places. Dalaney organized the trip to Tallahassee to talk to the legislators days after the shooting. And the whole movement started with Cameron. Keep your eyes peeled for these kids. They will be in the public eye for a long time.
Margaret wishing everyone Happy Easter and A wonderful Passover dinner. Xoxoxo
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The Newton Kids. Nathan on the left little sister died in the shootings. So sad.
Almost done. Used a caran dache crayon to Finish it. And my palette from Kim Johnson’s class. As 7th graders these Young men were on lock down for six hours not knowing who was shot or what was happening. 
Bytw when you see a strip of ledger paper on something it usually means I have messed up. Oops. Made a hash out of Parkland. 
I meant to take more process pics. OOPS. But Yeah done.
Margaret on to the next one.
Xoxoxo
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Actually a double page spread but like the cropped left pages composition. 
Off to run errands. 
and deliver my SOLD alpaca. Will miss this adorable guy!! 
Of course I have a few more cute guys from the alpacas field I haven’t painted yet.
Margaret xoxoxo Petit Marche deliciousness in Kirkwood French charm and delicious food #lepetitmarche #kirkwood #atlanta #food #foodie #deliciousness #stillmanandbirn #watercolor #lamysafari #ink #dailydrawing #sketching #urbansketcher #usk #breakfast
At Petit Marche my fav breakfast spot in Kirkwood Atlanta!! Delicious lavish over the top breakfasts. Whose ever had French toast with bananas on top. Yummmm
These two guys were tête-à -tête in deep conversation as people so often seem be at Petit Marche. No idea why they had three bottles of catchup. Heinz of course!!
Always a great spot to people watch. Always packed so you know the food is great and reasonable.
Margaret who has a busy day playing nurse. She can’t go out off leash in the yard. HMMM xoxoxox
Petit Marche deliciousness in Kirkwood French charm and delicious food #lepetitmarche #kirkwood #atlanta #food #foodie #deliciousness #stillmanandbirn #watercolor #lamysafari #ink #dailydrawing #sketching #urbansketcher #usk #breakfast
So I didn’t get a chance to paint today. Spent most of the day having a nervous breakdown over my labs licknoma. Dr Gross took it off and now she’s groggy from surgery staples in her poor leg. 
Knitted hoping to get some seratonins but maybe I should have tried some of the Kava kava I gave Honey my lab for anxiety one of the possible causes of licknomas.
Some of those magnificent Parkland kids. The one on the right was riddled with shrapnel a month ago. She threw up during her speech and said “I threw up on National tv and it felt good!! Then she finished her speech. Amazing kid. She and Aaliyah were in a class studying the holocaust when their own holocaust of a kind happened. The gunman opened fire on their classroom which could not be locked.
How did I not notice the guy on the right is cross eyed. Always amazes me things you miss when painting. Will have to fix him. These young men are Peace warriors from Chicago where So many kids die from gun shots every year. His mom told him “If you don’t stand up for something you will fall for anything.” Words of wisdom.
The pages I still need to paint. Hopefully tomorrow.
Newton High Students. 
Another Newton High student. They were on lock down for six hours when the shootings went of the poor babies went on.
The fabulous eloquent Emma Gonzales. How can one young person be so amazing and strong!? 
And her joint leaders from Parkland Cameron and Dalaney Tarr.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo who is a nurse for today.
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Naomi Wilder Age 11
I don’t know if you listened to the kids speak at March for Our Lives but they were amazing. So powerful and moving. Such strength. 
The double page spread.
Matt Post from Sherwood High in Maryland so poised at 18 he also seems to be morphing into a news anchor.
Sweet young Christopher Underwood whose brother died when he was five said Don’t I deserve to be able to go to school to learn science and math and play basketball without fear of being shot.
Zion whose twin was shot in the way home from school in DC. Alex Witt – Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
I quickly drew six double spread pages of 20 kids and their quotes so I could remember them off the tv as they spoke. I was riveted to the tv for hours. Some I have watched over and over again like Naomi an unbelievable speaker at age 11. 
Zion and Edna Chavez brought tears to my eyes with the deaths of their siblings. Edna from east LA learned to duck when shots rang out before she could read. The Amazing David Hogg – Marjorie Stoneman Douglas leader – needs no words. One day he will be running for office or having his own national broadcast news show. His friends said he could think himself pregnant he’s so laser focused.
Jaclyn Corin another Marjorie Stoneman Douglas leader and also so eloquent. Junior class president.
Yolanda Renee King -age 8 -Martin Luther King Jrs granddaughter led the group in Spread the Word!! What a presence! Ryan Deitsch another Marjorie Stoneman Douglas survivor
Here’s the whole spread
I still have several more pages to paint and I may have missed a few of the first speakers tuning in late. I know I missed Cameron the lead of speaker from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas but I caught him on the reruns. These are all drawn off tv as they talked so some are more successful than others.
Drawn in my stillman and birn alpha with a Lamy Ef. I used some watercolor pencil but mostly watercolor. Also a few colored pencils- white orange and flesh.
Watercolor :Quin burnt orange cad red quin coral quin gold aureolin burnt umber ultramarine blue cerulean cad orange.
Margaret whose finishing her other sock and then painting some more xoxoxo
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I drew my way thru Paris Rouen Les Andelys Conflans and Normandy a couple of years ago. This is the first page in my art journal a Strathmore Mixed Media 500 journal. That 500 is important. Beautiful paper.
Our ports starting and ending in Paris. We never made it to Versailles because of the terrible bombings in November. All the tourists places went on lock down.
Our first meal in a French restaurant. I don’t know if you watch what Phil’s eating but we did. We felt like Phil in Paris.
A journal page. Our tour leader our hotel Rochester.
the whole spread.
I carried my paint brushes in my back pack and my small travel paint box- a whiskey painter box w winsor newton watercolor paints and a cotman box filled with Daniel Smith quinacridones.
Drawn with a Noodler Ahab that holds a lot of carbon black ink. A lot of the bold lettering was done with my Pentel brush pen which has permanent ink cartridges.
And that’s it for today folks. Watching the kids march. What power they have! Margaret xoxoxo
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Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 