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
Emily 90 minutes watercolor pastel and 6B lead on strathmore Bristol.
A little thin thru the shoulders and body. And HOW did I forget to paint her other leg. An easy fix.
The sketch. About 30 minutes.
First break with a wash of raw sienna and Quin rose.
Second break? 80 minutes. Used a huge 16 Legends Sable. And a Golden Fleece Cheap Joes 2″ flat.
Added sepia Quin sienna Quin gold aureolin cobalt violet and dioxazine violet
Added white pastel stick for highlights.
Al Beyer oil 3×4′
Katie’s pencil and pastel. Love the flesh tones.
Jeremy. Red conte crayon?
Coach. Always does nice charcoal sketches.
Tom Needham’s small watercolor 10×14
AC Daniels small not quite done. Second break.
Fred the dentist having fun.
Margaret xoxoxox who better paint that leg.
Really pleased with the way this one turns out. Don’t know why I didn’t post it sooner. I had a lot of trouble with pens. Four in my purse and NO ink in any of them. How is that possible. Met some friends at the new Starbucks on Bobby Jones. Really nice BIG Starbucks. I drew the people in front of me. Some walked off some walked in.
The cars were a lot of fun to draw. Next time I am drawing my Prius in the painting lol. Artist car 🚗 self portrait.
Even like the way the crepe Myrtle turned out. I painted the whole thing wet in wet letting the colors melt into each other.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook Lamy Safari Ted Nuttalls transparent palette.
Ttyl !Margaret xoxoxox
Snacking on goldfish when we went to Oakhurst park. This was a very quick sketch. Have you ever treed drawing a five year old who never stops?! But Henry loved the idea of me drawing him. He tried to hold still. That lasted about a second.
Stillman and Birn Alpha w Lamy Safari and Ted Nuttalls transparent palette
Tty Margaret xoxoxo
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
15 minute sketches. I think I would do better if I used a timer all the time. 
The mask has black wink of Stella glitter brush pen on it and the necklace gold wink of Stella.
Done in a superaquabee tablet 10×14 or 16. W pentel brush pen and winsor newton travel palette colors plus all the Daniel smith quinacridones.
Ten minutes
Five minutes
Five or Ten minutes. Add texture contest which I won. The feather is done with glitter pens.
A contest. Add a beast to a sketch. Added the Chat Noir cat. Kinda wished I hadn't. Liked it better before oh well. Always another sketch. 10 min then 10 more to add the cat. I think. Mask is done with wink of Stella glitter pens.
Done in a superaquabee tablet 10×14 or 16. W pentwl brush pen and winsor newton travel palette colors plus all the Daniel smith quinacridones.
Ttyl off to run errands in Atlanta
Margaret xoxoxox
Last page in this sketchbook. Hurrah. So I decided to draw another page of Zoe. 
Zoe is always up for a modeling job. She's cheap. She works for treats! She is NOT good at holding a pose. Her ears are always listening. Rotating line radar to see what you are doing. 
I really like the way this head turned out. Both the sketch and the watercolor. 
This is my second favorite head. I was drawing fast.
I still had not filled up my pens and reached into my purse to see what I had. Pulled out a 6B Charcoal pencil and drew with it.
After I painted her I set the charcoal with fixative. So far it seems to not be smearing. Cross your fingers.
Strathmore 400 sketchbook. Colors used. Quin burnt sienna cerulean cobalt Andrews Turquoise.
Ttyl Margaret xoxoxox
My sweet flabrador Honey. She's fat as a butterball. She's very fond of food especially bread and cookies. Pumpkin pie. NEVER Leave any on the counter if you want to eat it later.
Yesterday drawing at Starbucks all my pens were empty. Huh. Four of them. So I drew with pencil. Today yet to fill them tried a 6B charcoal a la Alex Powers. It loved this Stillman and Birn Alpha. Unlike the pencil it does not repel watercolor.
There's actually a screwed up pen sketch hidden on the left of my grandson.
Labs are hard to paint. The highlights are almost blue. I slapped combos of mixed burnt umber and ultramarine in the dark areas and bled out the edges w clean water for the highlights. Shadows are cerulean and Quin burnt sienna.
Ttyl Margaret who had another busy day xoxoxo
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 