Thanks to all the new followers I have been at this daily posting for over 1100 consecutive days now.

Plenty of time to drink hot tea when you are snowbound.

How to empty a teabag.

Clip them on the back w scissors and rinse them out. Lay flat to dry. Some like Lipton’s and Paul Newman will open up flat. You can dry them in a low oven if u are in a hurry. My ice scraper. Who knew Chacos made good ice scrapers? Finally scraped the inches of snow and ice off my windshield last nite before a quick trip to chic fil a.

Just thankful my car started up fine. I am sure it’s in shock since it normally would be in its cozy garage not sitting out in the weather in the icy cold.

Then I was back painting my dried out tea bags. Used watercolor pentel brush pen pitt pen white gouache.

Off to see the grandkids as soon as the roads thaw!

Margaret getting cabin fever xoxoxo

I assume it’s the old Brunson Place because a short road named Brunson runs up to the front yard.

I wonder why paintings go better when they are vertical. Sometimes I CANT paint at all when they are flat on the table. Think gravity helps with watercolor making the wet on wet colors mingle.

I guess it was boring in black and white.

Colors used quin gold and sienna. Pyrrole red cerulean ultramarine burnt umber sepia marine blue sky green apatite cad red I think though I don’t use the cads much.

Stillman and birn alpha Da Vinci 10 sable Lamy EF w eelskin ink and I splattered it with sienna and ultramarine/sepia

A sketch of my grandson Henry’s Japanese monsters his dad bright back from Japan last year. Weird monsters. They kept tipping over and Livis kept snatching them and moving them. A true exercise in determination! Henry wants them painted so I am sure that will happen soon!!

How about them dawgs?

Off On The road again. I think I am living out of my suitcase. Bet I am not going anywhere after The holidays but home to my bed.

Margaret who is tired of lugging clothes up and down three stories

Xoxoxo

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A guy instead of the girl we usually draw. Joe. I don’t know why he had all the chains on or why the strange make up. Usually we have a Santa of one kind or another. Sometimes a naughty one. Sometimes I tired one. Sometimes a Santa with a good stiff drink – who could blame him?!

Anyway I do think this drawing turned out well.

First time his legs were too short. Oops.

And this pose well I just don’t know. And the chains. Hmm And the mask and he blood. Hmmmmm. The contest was too add some texture.

Pentel brush pen using just the tip of the pen like a pencil Super Aquabee Tablet watercolor.

That’s all the Dr Sketchys.

Thanks for looking Margaret xoxoxo

Has planned to go off sketching somewhere in Atlanta today but is was a cloudy foggy morning and somehow that never inspires me. Started watching the Tommy Kane Danny Gregory Sletchbookskool video and decided to draw Lucy dog who was nearby lounging away the day while I listened to the video. My cross hatching was a little scribble so decided to punch it up.

Two hours later this is what I have done! It’s only 5×8. I used my Lamy EF right side up and upside down in a stillman and birn alpha. I might add a watercolor background but I might not. We will see.

wish I had taken more pictures of it. This was before I darkened the chair line work and added some very light cross hatching to the rug.

Think it needs something in the right top corner. We shall see.

Here’s what I was drawing. Edited out the boxes of Christmas decorations since they are not usually there. And yes Lucy dog is still snoozing.

Ttyl the sun is out and I am hungry maybe drawing with some lunch.

Margaret xoxoxo who should do something with her wild curly hair first.