Hmm love the body but not to sure about the head. It might need more work.
All the brushes I used today. Did I say a lot of brushes. lol. Had one for each color. 
Tom Needham Nice job
Al Beyer Large canvas 3’x4′
Ruth Pearls
Rachel Millers
Jeremy’s.
Dawns
Cathe Dennis
Alexis who’s really improving a lot. 
Fred’s mad women 
Vanessa’s 
Mary DOnnan
Ilania who is usually the model. She’s really improving too.
And that’s all folks.
Margaret xoxoxo
Once again I posted this yesterday on that OTHER website…sigh…
Somehow saying Happy Veterans Day seems like a conundrum to me because is not happy and people remembering it are sad.
That said I am sharing sketches of War Memorials I did in France last fall in Normandy at the sites of the Allied D Day Invasions 71 years ago.
The Canadian Cemetery at Beny sur Mer. It was odd to me that people to young to know the men buried there were crying over dead relatives.
That said I found myself doing the same thing as I shared a link to my dads historic battle of Foxhill at the Choisin Reservoir in 1950. PBS recently aired a riveting documentary about the week long battle. I had heard bits of the story but to actually see the 32 below conditions they fought in, the rugged almost arctic landscapes, the mass burials of the Marine dead,the frozen Chinese who were shot because the Marines had no other choice in this desperate time was a totally different experience.
The beautiful Canadian Juno Beach Museum shaped like a maple leaf on the beaches of La Manche, the Sleeve as the French call the English Channel. A stunning building wrapped in glowing aluminum with state of the art exhibits.
The Ranville Eglise next to another Canadian Cemetery in Caen Normandy France. The day was getting dark and somber threatening rain that afternoon.
The Pegasus Bridge Museum. Using gliders brave British paratroopers jumped behind Nazi lines BEFORE the Allied invasion forces landed on the Normandy beaches. I am sure many of them are now buried at the nearby Ranville Cemetery. They are immortalized in the movie The Longest Day.
Thanks for stopping by.
Margaret xoxox
When I left today!! Â My friend Cathe and I decided after class today that it needed more sparkles…aka white blobs going back and the top left corner needed more work so I did!!! And here it is.
I HOPE I still like it when I see it Saturday. Â You know when you are up late like we both were sometimes you think an idea you have is great and it turns out NOT to be. Â We will see!!!
I worked on it for another hour and a half!! Â This painting is really getting abstract with alot of hard edges and goobery brush strokes.
For the uninitiated thats Al’s name for blobs of paint which are hard to see in a photograph.  I also tried using different size brushes but still would turn them sideways to get strokes the size I wanted not necessarily the width of the brush.
This is what it looked like about 2:00 today!! Lots more white on the first one than this one…a few more lines AND I got rid of that nasty grey x on the babys head. Â I did NOT like that at all. Â I was fixating on it.
Monday.
Last Wednesday
Wednesday two weeks ago.
Monday two weeks ago.
The photo Rockys in Brevard
Thanks for checking by.
Margaret xoxox who’s snug in her flannel Jammie’s and her ugg slippers loving  this cool snap.
 I started this in the mountains a week ago….finally finished it last nite while listening to the elections…what a nail biter!!  This little journal page is about 8×10″.  I hope to do more of them and bind them together into a journal book hinging the individual pages into it.
Painted on 280# arches paper with Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith watercolors…lovely paper. Â More about that in a minute! The colors are from Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
If you check out the bat on the top right it only has one tooth. Â The long triangle was supposed to be a highlight of white but I decided to lift another tooth off the bat as you can see in the last picture.
I used masking tape to tape off a triangle shape. Â Then I wet a clean Mr Clean eraser and wiped the color off. Â I also got rid of the spot on the right below the bat as well as lifted some color off the candy. Â It cleaned right down to the white of the paper like John Salminen said it would.
TTYL …Margaret who will have an bedtime early tonite after a sleepless nite last nite…well as soon as the two shots of expresso and the four cups of caffeinated tea and the cup of kombucha, fermented tea wear off…lol
Anybody who has a lab knows this look and way of laying on the floor. She’s interested in food.
My neighbors actually think my lab is called Biscuit because I call Biscuit Biscuit trying to lure her back to the house. She adores biscuits and is very partial to Cracker Barrel Biscuit with or without butter.
You do know a biscuit is a vehicle for putting butter in your mouth don’t you?!
Drawn with a fine tip pentel pen. Colored w a tombow red and brown marker.
Ttyl
Margaret xoxox who is NOT watching the election returns. Nope you can’t make me.
A summation of my diet. What I learned.
I should have added that people don’t recognize me anymore if they hadn’t seen me in a month or two or they think is that Margaret?!
High school friends have no problem recognizing me thug cb they haven’t seen me in years.
Tells you something.
Then there are friends who ar ESP funny bitting their tongue when they say you looks so much younger. Better still I feel younger.
Winsor Newton magenta wc marker and cad yellow light with a touch of card red med.
A journal page from last week. All are drawn now. Still have about five left in my coloring book to color.
Cad red WN WC marker, fan I’ve, cad yellow light, sap green, cad orange and yellow Ochre . A murky green tombow and a very light blue one.
Off to Columbia. Enjoy this beautiful fall weather.
Margaret xoxox in her size 8 skinny jeans. Who knew they are like spanks if they are tight enough. Lol.
I still have four or five of these to color. I colored this with a bright orange tombow and wet it. It was so bright I blotted it off to lighten it up some.
A fun page. Colored with only Tombows.
This is a page that I drew and ever got around to coloring. Only a few of these left. I still have the last few pages to draw from last week so bear with me while I clean up.
I love the way this page turned out. Wished I had stopped while I was ahead with the dark blue and just stuck with the turquoise letters.
Super lettering on this one I think.
But no I had to improve. NOT. It got too dark so I tried blotting it off with a damp Kleenex. Better but not as good as it was.
This is before I started the blotting. You be the judge.
Drawn w a kuretake brush pen in a strathmore mixed media journal. Colored with Tombows. Why are they NOT archival. Nothings perfect I guess.
Off to the y. Yoga time.
Ttyl Margaret feeling lots thinner.
Busy day today. Lost another two pounds. Got to try the Y scale. Anyway. The big painting. It’s like one foot forward and two backwards or even sidewards.
I also got an admonition to create chaos and order and quit loosing my sketch lines at critique like this Matisse. Eek what does that mean.
That’s said I gotta loose those icky shadows on the people and paint some flesh colors back in. Really don’t like the guys legs or the shadows on the mom and the baby now. It’s only paint. If I had time I would hop in the car drive to Aiken and fix it. NAsty!!
Too many hard edges. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. 
Where is my nickel asp gold and pyrrole red. With white I love those colors for flesh. And the shadows too. Like in this one.
I do like sidewalk shadows better now. It’s a big canvas-36×48 and there’s lots to do.
Here’s the sketch from Wednesday two weeks ago.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
