After watching Danny Gregory do a video book tour of Searles Paris book yesterday I took these screen shots of some of British Ronald Searles amazing drawings from the perpetua blog dedicated to all things Ronald Searles. The dome of Sacre Couer gleams white in the sunlight. 

Searles actually moved to Paris after WW2. This photo is called summer in Paris and is drawn below Sacre Couer w hitch dominges Montmartre.  

Cafe de la Paix. Love his scratchy lines. Made with a dip pen or?!  
A cafe scene. The food is so good and the views are amazing. I love three fact is people are out of proportion. Heads too small or too big for bodies. Noses too long. And mile long chins. 

Paris in the summer. Wish I was there drawing. 

More Montmartre Place de Tertre. 

off to read some more about him netty Margaret xoxoxoxo

It all started when I decided to sell my friend Marie my long arm two weeks ago.

The puppy dog quilt.

I decided it was time to knock out those baby quilts I have needed to do for a while. Quilting gets done so much quicker on a long arm. One hour to quilt no pinning versus an hour of pinning the top, the back, and the batting together. Then five more hours or so of quilting it on my regular sewing machine.

Done!!!

I started knocking out toddler sized quilts. Each about 45×72″.

So far five tops in a week. I can cut out and piece a yellow brick road lap sized in about five hours. Another hour to quilt. If only binding was as quick.

The back of the 30s repro quilt.

Two are finished and ready to mail. One more to go.

Because I has this stack of leftover hexies from a yellow quilt. All the greenish yellows.

I decided to sew this monster hexie quilt together to quilt it before she gets the long arm.

Hmm and what else is on my list ?! Kerchoooo. All this sewing is making me sneeze and itch from the dust mites.

BUT!! I have one more toddler quilt.

And THEN I am going to finish my Queen Kaffe Fassett lone star. And quilt my two appliqué tops. And hmm. Piece and quilt my pink one patch wonder quilt. Now half sewn.

Well maybe a couple of baby quilts for my grandma hope chest.

And maybe this jacket a friend made. Always likes it. And hmm. Oh I have to paint. No sneezing then.

Ttyl margaret not even putting a dent in her fabric collection.

XOXOXOX

Henry’s left leg was not done right at first. It’s not easy to fix light colors in watercolor so I got out my Neocolor ii’s which are more opaque. I think it looks right now. And I added more neocolor to provide what Fealin Lin calls linkage to lead your eye around the page.

Still not great but these reminded me of the story from my childhood that I added to it. You never know what memories art journals will stir up.

I also used my prismacolors on this page of quick poses as Henry wiggled and wiggles while he watched PBS.

Earlier this am. Eeekkk. Who is that boy?!

It looked like this when I started. Now good at all.

Off to class ttyl Dr Sketchys tonite. Yeahhhh.

Margaret xoxoxo

His legs are definitely off. And hmm the heads too big. But hey pretzel Henry is a fun idea.

Maybe it is fixable. Who knows. I need to quit sewing and try. Right?!

Back to my binding. Margaret xoxoxox

Pine Lake is loaded with charming houses. This yellow house was no exception except the front brick facade seems to be separating from it. Ooppps. And a HUGE crack in the foundation. Double oops. Great trees and an adorable back yard abut what’s with the huge dehumidifier in the back bedroom.

Back to finishing my baby quilt. Xoxoxox Margaret

Ilaina 20×24″ Strathmore Bristol

Almost trashed this one. Had I felt better I would have started over but decided to slap some paint on it anyway.

Really like the way she turned out. She turned out kind of delicious colors. Used a 2″ flat and a #16 Legends and 10 davinci

Quin red raw sienna sepia thalo and white gouache

Drew Murphy’s BIG acrylic

Katie Padgett’s lovely pencil on canson paper.

Tom Needham’s small Watercolor

Dress Mondrians always make me smile.

Coach’s charcoal and Pastel.

Al Beyer’s awesome huge oil 3v4″

Hugs. Time for a nap xoxoxo margaret