Can you figure out where I messed up?! The tall guy on the right. No idea how I did that. Thinking of painting over him with watercolor ground and having a redo.
As it is it’s unusable and I really like the rest of it. We shall see. So aggravating.
Ttyl margaret on Melt down. Xoxoxo
Pleased to announce that some of my urban sketches and some of my mixed media sketches will be for sale at Wolf and Finch on 859 Broad Street during Arts in the Hearts.
Ttyl more paintings to get ready. Stay tuned!! Xoxoxo margaret
Wish we had some views like this in Augusta. Sigh.
Every time I go to Trader Joe’s on Monroe I always stare at it for a few minutes.
It’s looking over the Grady High football field toward Piedmont Park.
Those tall buildings never fail to fascinate.
Lamy Safari Noodlers Eelskin Black Stillman and Birn Alpha. Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean
Hugs Margaret whose missing the moms who used to run Inner Bean. Xoxox
Sort of house hunting in Atlanta. 800 sq feet for $209k. Think extremely dilapidated in the outside. But so adorable. 
Not easy to do since where I would like to live my house would cost $1.3 million like this one down the street from my sons house in Oakhurst. Maybe I should become a realtor?!
Love Petite Marche in Kirkwood. These will get painted soon.
Hard to get the paint out with a 3&5 yr old grandchild around. They want to paint too. Oops. 
Cute little fixer upper in Pine Lake. Has tons of very dark knotty pine that needs to be painted white. And a disaster of a side porch with jalousy windows that will no longer open or shut. Eeekkk. Keep looking?!
Off to walk the dog and have a taste of living urban style in a walkable neighborhood. Then more house looking.
Drawn with my Lamys in a Stillman and Birn Zeta.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox
When I started this new blog I thought I would try to make 50 days of daily blogging and here we are at day 1100. Who knew. As Wayne Dyer said anything is possible if you do it one small piece at a time. 
20 minute sketches. The last of the dr Sketchys really liked the wings. Great fun to draw. The flowers NOT so much fun to paint. Jessie was some kind of woodland fairy. I think. She held the pose rock steady for 20 minutes which after 2 1/2 hrs of paint is no easy thing to do. 
Bytw I set the sketchbook up vertically while I drew and painted these. Anymore I almost can't paint or draw on a flat level
Surface. Strange but true. It feels odd. Time was short so these are all alla prima
Paintings. Love the way the darks in her legs and wings blended themselves.
Like Charles Reid says it's 50% you 50% the watercolor.
10×14 superaquabee sketch book which loves pentel brush pen and watercolor alike. Winsor Newton travel palette watercolors and all the Daniel Smith quinacridones. #10 DaVinci Kolinsky Sable.
Ttyl time to play with the grandkids. Hugs. Margaret in Atlanta xoxoxoxo
Thought you might like to see the order of the sketchbook so far. Still at least one more sketch to paint which will go here in the order. Painted on Kilimanjaro with Ted Nuttalls Transparent colors or Charles Reid Palette. Pen Lamy Safari loaded with Noodler Black.
Seemed like and especially good idea to me
Since the upstairs AC was dripping water thru the ceiling and it’s turned off.
So I “slept” on the den sofa
But mostly tossed and turned
Getting just a few hours of sleep.
AC fixed. Nap time now. Enjoy. Margaret xoxoxox worn out.
Our favorite place to eat Cornucopia in Cashiers. A great big open air barn of a restaurant. Even when you eat inside it’s like eating outside. They do have a large section of umbrellas to eat under too.
It’s open year round. They roll large clear plastic sheeting down to keep the cold air out. It used to be BYOB so check before you go. Good food. Great service. Kid friendly.
Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Henry’s big birthday party today. Art with 20 something five year olds.
Margaret already exhausted in Decatur. Xoxoxo
Finally happy with one of the paintings. About time. 
I got out my #2 Isabey mop to loosen up and I think it worked.
Always does because it’s impossible to be exact with a mop.
These spreads are long. About 6×15 so they are time consuming to paint.
Painted with Ted Nuttall Palette of transparent colors. 
Bytw don’t people know they are suppose to wear red white and blue on the fourth. What’s with all the grey shirts!?
Thanks for stopping by. Margaret with three more to paint from this trip. Xoxoxo
The title page is done. Not to sure about that rainbow trout but that seems par for every page I am doing lately. Lol.
Earlier this week. How many more pages to paint?! Two or three.
I don’t know if I said but this is a copy of a sketch I did for their guest book. Only that one is just in black and white.
Bytw the water was painted with my #2 Isabey mop. Drawing with my Lamy Safari on Kilimanjaro cold press #140 paper.
Back to sneezing.
Margaret xoxoxo
Never turns out the way you think it should. I think it is Charles Reid that says it’s part you but at least 50% it’s doing what it wants to do.
The Cashiers Fireworks Extravaganza. That and played from about 5 till midnight with fireworks in between. A fun nite and they only ask for a donation. What a deal!!
Of course it would help if you could find the picture of the scene before you start painting. My phone aeeemd to have eaten this when I was painting it yesterday. Eeekk. And of course now that I am done I have found it. Oh well.
I will say the camera tends to darken the shadows so who cares?!
On to the next page right?! Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
I did draw this at the Extravaganza. Just my grandkids would have wanted to help me paint it. They would have been covered in paint with no access to clean up.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 