Finally I can wear my. BLack Frye cowboy boots. I have really high arches so the only way I could get them on is with a grocery bag. Then I rip off the bag. I only paid $50-60 for them last March at a close out sale so I took them to Fox shoes downtown to get them stretched. Continue reading →

Started this one over but looking at it I think I like it. Amanda was a great model. And always soooo funny.  Done with my new Noodler Ahab. Super aquabee tablet-almost full. Time for a new one in reserve. Actually drew this one twice. I thought her feet were too big and her arm too long so did a do over. 
The rest are two minute sketches done with a pentel brush pen. Perfect for inktober posts!!


I won the first challenge. Then drew a blank on adding an element.  So I wrote the word. Then I added my wink of Stella glitter markers. Gold black green and red on the monkey. He said he needed some too. Loved drawing the red monkey. Amanda would talk to him and was a hoot. 

Ttyl. Off to Costco. Have quite the list!!

Margaret xoxoxi
#augusta  #Amanda #inktober #inktober2017 #ink #DrSketchys #noodler 

This one was screaming for color.  Hmm they usually do. Drew my feet then the Feet words trying to cover up some writing on the first page of a new Stillman and birn alpha. I put my name and address on the wrong page. Oops.  But one of the things I like about a Stillman and birn softcover journal is their ability to lie flat when opened so double page spreads are enhanced.  
Since I had scribbles in the left corner and woke up dreaming about scribbling all over the painting I am working on it was on,y natural that I scribble foot related thoughts all over the page. 

Lamy EF Noodler ahab and a pentel brush pen with black ink. 

I colored it with my prismacolor artstixs. So much fun to use.  
Gotta run. Off to buy some paint pens to scribble on my big acrylic painting. Thinking dance dance dance at chat noir!  Hope al downt grump too much about it. 

Margaret on a deadline. Xoxox

Not much or a breakfast type but this has been it lately. Almost always kombucha. And frequently a honey crisp apple til they run out. And if I have them a croissant from Costco. Love Costco croissants. Thank goodness the fattening deliciousness aka croissants are gone.

Pentel brush pen Lamy EF for fine lettering Stillman and Birn Alpha and Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus Andrews Turquoise.

Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox

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It took me a couple of hours to draw all these crows. Lots of fun. I was trying to keep them fairly loose with line carrying the impact. Stillman and Birn alpha Lamy EF and that filled the sketchbook up. Yeah.

And most people’s favorite.

Margaret xoxoxo off to Atlanta

#Inktober #inktober2017 #crows #ravens

also known as really bad dog. Caught honey with her head buried into the new 16 lb bag of cat food. Now half empty. No wonder my dog is getting fatter and fatter. Otherwise she’s an rgd. Really great dog. More often found as a dog rug on the floor sleeping or hopeing for hand outs. Not stealing food or eating like a pig.

Painted with ultramarine blue burnt umber aureolin and cad red light.

Ttyl margaret xoxo

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Well unless you use non permanent cartridges for your pen. Oops. They ran a little when I started painting. Double oops.

Just little bits of birds out of my brain. Been reading and watching Felix Scheinberger on YouTube.

Sap green Joe’s Turquoise marine blue cad yellow light and hmm winsor yellow thalo blue ultramarine blue Quin coral Quin red cad red and alizarin

Margaret in a hurry.