Find it interesting how even the most screwed up sketch looks better once it’s colored.
Off for a busy day so will be brief!! Two of these guys rocked.
One didn’t.
I will leave you to sort out who they are!
Margaret off to get this day started xoxoxox
For a while I have been drawing the talking heads and writing down what they say at least some of it. I remember who’s up to what In this Russian hunt. And sometimes I draw them like today. I guess I should have drawn them in a sketchbook but they are in a notebook I bought for 10 cents at target a couple of years ago.
Co chair warner
Sen Collins NOT zone of my better sketches.
Sen Heinrich he worked hard to pin sessions down
Blount just loves Seesions. BFF
KIng Nailed him down
Manchin
Sen Harris. You don’t ever want to be questioned by this tough woman.
Sen Reed held Sessions toes to the fire over what he had previously said about Comey. He used to think he was great til DT told him he wasn’t.
Sen McCain very concerned about the Russians in our country. Much better job Han the other day.
Try Margaret xoxoxo think I might get out my Prismacolor art sticks and color these. #ussenate #sessionshearings #sessions #kamalaharris #warner #ink #sketching #dailydrawing #lamysafari #rubio #wyden #warner #ussenate
Finally getting around to posting my friend Mike. Been crazy busy cleaning house and pitching junk out – stuff not even worth good will donation.
We had a draw off at Cracker Barrel one Saturday or Sunday morning when we were in Boone. Here’s Mike drawing me. Eeek!!
Ttyl Margaret who had to go shower and get rid of the dust!!
Should have stuck to the hot press fabriano I started to draw this on. HOWEVER a I have more Bristol Board than Hotpress so opted for Bristol. NOT next time. And I may redraw.
I could not loose an edge to save my life on this paper. And it took forever dry. Maybe I should have put it on Stonehenge. I do have some of that. Next time. Or maybe hat Fabriano. Fabriano hot press is the loveliest paper and I know Cheap Joes has more and so does Dick Blick.
Inked with my Lamy Safari and Lamy Fine point.
WIP because I may do it over and also may add a bit of mixed media like what about a gold paint pen halo edge!? Could be fun.
These ideas pop into my head and I keep a list of them on my cell phone. Check back by or check my Instagram feed MaggieinSc for an update because Rachel Maddow is on soon and it’s time for a shower so I am ready.
Wonder what she will unloose tonite. an ongoing spy novel.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
You know IF Miami is underwater those lovely pearls we call The Keys will be long gone.
And so would Key Largo.
A favorite spot to eat when heading to Key West. 
Both coming 
And going.
Where else will you hear steel drums played during lunch.
Ttyl. Margaret doped up in Benadryl. You know carrying flowers home from Trader Joe’s in Atlanta may not have been a good idea. KERCHOOOOO. Nose running like a sieve. And I wanted to paint. Zzzzzz
Today is my son Bens birthday. I have drawn him quite a bit and his dogs even more. And of course his adopted hometown Atlanta.
Hanging out at Little Five Points. 
Going to Weddings! 
Binge watching Netflix!
Waiting for breakfast. 
Video game player. 
The Broken Arm
LIvie his Pitt bull 
And Bear the stray that showed up on his porch. 
Bear
LIvie
Bear
Ttyl Party time.
Margaret xoxoxox
Been a while since I drew the dogs. Zoe was in the perfect spot looking out their favorite front window.
Colors used Cerulean burnt sienna and that’s it.
On the road again to Atlanta for the first of the birthday weekends.
Margaret xoxoxox
#zoe #jrt #jackrussell #jackrussellterrier #ink #stillmanandbirn #atlanta #aikensc #georgia #carolina #gouletpens #augusta #watercolor #aquarelle
Along with Suhita I will be posting some of the beautiful places in our country that we will loose with the rising seas like Key West!! The only way we can protest the president leaving the Paris Accords! Join us!
The highest point is 18 feet above sea level. Rising tides will put it UNDER water.
No more Jacarandas aka Norfolk pines. They will be flooded. 
No more Hogfish Grill UNDERwater!’
No more Buzzards Roost on Key Largo UNDER water!’
NO more Blue Heaven UNDER water!! 
and all those lovely chickens I love to feed and draw Under Water! 
And what about all those poor animals – the chickens!? UNDER Water!!!
Iguanas they can swim but for how long and how far?!
More chickens at the post office. UNDER Water!!!
Ditto UNDER Water!!!
UNDER Water!!!
UNDER Water!!!
UNDER Water!!!
And Louie’s Backwater with food that’s so amazing a view of the Caribbean UNDER Water!!!
Off to Atlanta which won’t be underwater just a desert!! #UNDER Water!!! #TakeaHikeMrPresident
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
Or part two of that dries out palette. So did I quit?! NOPE! I had found a dried out tube of Daniel Smith Ultramarine Blue and thought it was EXPENSIVE and I seem to EAT Ultramarine Blue.
RECONSTITUTE IT?! Was it possible. It was rock hard.
I chopped it open with my carton cutter. It looked like plastic. A dried up rock.
I put it in the Ultramarine well NA hosed it with the sprayer.
I chopped it with the palette knife bending the tip of my palette knife again. Still a rock.
I let it soak. Then I chopped it with my scissors. Stirred it a bit. Off and on all afternoon I poked at it.
Yeah it was melting. Chopped it a bit more with the scissors. Shrinking shrinking.
Now it looks like nice thick pea soup. Harley is going to require aLOT of untramarine blue!!
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxo
Now that I am home for a day or two I wanted to use my Ted Nuttall palette. This is actually Teds Palette.
All those lovely transparent colors.
And it helped with my procrastination mode getting started painting the Raisin and Harley painting
which is finally transferred to paper and ready to paint.
Of course my Palette has dried out and filthy. They always dry out!! It needed revival and cleaning. Another way to procrastinate!!! The spray bottle was not getting the job done. The colors were lumpy and nasty.
So how did I get it clean and get the paint smooth and ready to use!?
First I sprayed it and tried stirring each color with its own tooth pick. That did not do much for the lumps. I wanted to paint!!!
I got out my trusty old palette knife. It has a tiny blade on it compared to most so it fit perfectly in the wells of my porcelain palette.
I used a jillion Kleenex wiping wells out where there was just a dribble of old hard paint. NO LOTION On those Kleenex.
I started bending my antique palette knife in some of the paint. Oh NO!! I kept going. What palette knife is supposed to last forever!?
I decided to rearrange the colors. Here and there I had added colors I MUST have to the basic Nuttall Palette like Cerulean, Andrews Blue, Daniel Smith Piemonite and Green Apaptite.
The Kleenex and the palette knife left crusts of color in the corners.
Then I realized I could fill the wells with water and used an old brush to swirl out the bits left in corners. Hallelujah clean wells at last.
I used a sharpie to rewrite the colors on the edges of the wells and I even have a few leftover slots.
So it’s new clean and lovely at this point.
What I learned while cleaning my palette.
Margaret who has some painting to do. Xoxox and no more reasons to procrastinate because I even cleaned up the studio and moved to the summer one aka the kitchen table and island.
Oh wait I need to use the glass cleaner on the winter studio table. It’s looking hazy. Procrastinate procrastinate. I need some flowers to paint!!
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Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 