Painted these with my new squirrel dagger brush from Sam Flaxs. This is the title Page of my sketchbook. Only one more full day. A lot of sketching to get done. 

This is my practice on the last page of the book. Painted with marine blue and hookers green. 

Lunch at Blue Heaven where you breakfast with the chickens. A very interesting spot with delicious shrimp eggs Benedict with key lime hollandaise. 

The people in this sketch were not sitting together. I added them in. 

Margaret xoxox off to see the shark eco tour that we won. 

In case you havent noticed we love to eat at Hogfish Bar and Grill when we are down in Key West. So far we have been twice. 

Currently this is my fav dish there the Hogfish grilled salad. YUMM with the most delicious key lime vinaigrette. So good. I have eaten it twice this week and we will return for a third go round tonite. 

The mojitos are also delish. My sister likes the always good fish tacos with sangria her personal favorite. She says they are he best anywhere. 

We usually eat dockside if we can and it’s the view that I am most prone to mess up when I draw it which I did in this sketch. As usual I will fix it with a piece of ledger paper. Fixes lots of problems. 🤗

I will crop it like this. Or maybe a little tighter on the right. Will keep u posted. 

Ttyl 

Margaret who had ridden five miles a day and walked three and needs a nap. Xoxoxo

Our favorite view  at Hogfish Grill. #hogfishgrill #keywest #stockisland #christmas 

On the last leg to Key West. Only 125 miles are so starting at Largo West and ending at Key West the southernmost point of the US. 

A sketch done on the sidewalk in front of the High Art Museum late one fall afternoon. The entire facade was in shade by the. Sad because it’s gorgeous gleaming in the bright noon day sun.  

I painted it later with Ted Nuttalls transparent water color palette. 

The High at noon. 

And the High in the late afternoon. 
The swooping facade made it hard to paint it white because it’s hard to tell what is what from anything but a pic taken at the same angle. And my photo was all in the shade. Who wants to see an all grey building?! 
I should draw it again. Oh well. 
Ttyl 

Key West is looming but first a stop at Buzzards Roost for dinner and to stretch our legs. 
Margaret whose bottom is really tired. 

In Key West.  I love drawing the chickens. Sometimes I follow them around and draw them but here because I am often either hot or tired or both I sit and watch them and draw them. These were drawn at the Key West Wildllife Rescue. A great place that saves birds not that chickens are endangered in. Key West. They are protected by Federal law and can’t be killed even if they are crowing right under your bedroom window.  

Courthouse chickens. A hot bed of chickens are the courthouse and the post office next door with an occasional sleeping homeless person on the side to draw. The whole chicken spread. Down with a big isabey mop.  One last handsome Fellow. No idea where I drew him. He’s gouache. He might even be a Gatlinburg chicken. 

Anyway hopefully we will get some sketching done today. Yesterday I was too tired from our trip and too busy to get a thing done.  

Ttyl

Margaret xoxoxo 

In Florida on the way to Key West!! Another week on vacation at the HyattWindward  on the Atlantic. How many more miles?  232 miles and we left at 5 am this morning. 😳

From Thanksgiving in Sapphire Valley my youngest son snoozing on his front porch on a sunny afternoon.  

This sketch was almost a disaster but it looks a lot better after adding shading to the block head I gave him. 

The foreshortening of the figure was tough. And of course he got up before I had time to take a pic or color it.  

Tombow markers in my Stillman and Birn  Beta mixed media sketchbook. Carbon Platinum pen. 

Standby for Key West sketches. Got a brand new Zeta book just for the week at Key West. Renting a bike to get up close and personal with the island which is only 2×4 miles but so much to do and draw. 

Ttyl 

Margaret whose bottom is getting very tired.  

She’s been a very good girl. I think she’s finished but I reserve the right to change her. I forgot to put the snow flakes on her scarf. Zoe does love her scarves. She always wears one. 

UPDATE: I added the snowflakes with a white pentel gel pen. Sooo easy. Try it you will like it. 

When I drew this she was tucked up on the sofa on a red and green diamond Christmas quilt a perfect foil for her white fur. Her big brown eyes could drill holes in you. 

I almost messed her up. I did NOT alike these green letters that I did with a dagger brush. So I wet them down, smeared them out, added some indigo with a big brush and ended up with the background in the first picture. 

MUCH Better!!!  Painted with Ted Nuttalls transparent palette plus cerulean and Daniel Smith Serpentine Genuine. 

Drawn with my pentel brush pen in a Stillman and Birn mixed media Beta journal. 

Thanks for checking by! 

Off to Key West. Margaret. Xoxoxo 

Don Henley of The Eagles. I think he needs more Wrinkles. But what gorgeous blue eyes. He is painted with watercolors. Ted Nuttalls transparent colors plus cerulean. The beard is painted with cerulean and turquoise. 

The background and letters are painted with gouache. Yellow,  pyrrole red, and white. 

The sketch. I did add a smudge to the left hairline on the forehead. It was too square. 

I like the contrast of the gouache with the transparent watercolors. I am thinking about adding a list of their songs to the background to fill up the empty spot between the head and the letters. 

And a big oops. They were talking about  band member Glenn Frey on CBS when I was drawing this. My poor brain decided to write his name instead of Dons. Oops. Great G though. So I had to use the gouache to paint it out. It was either that or some ledger pages. 

Key West  is looming. 

Off I go. Ttyl. 

Margaret on the road again. Xoxoxo

Not my best. May require more work. Gouache painting of one of our fav restaurants in Brevard Mayberrys. Awesome

Cheese cornbread and vegeterian chili. Tonite sunset out then back door. Truly spectacular. That’s the cold front roaring into Augusta forcing a bank of sin drenched clouds ahead of it. 

I looked outside a minute later (I swear just one minute) and it was gone. 

Zoe trying to get my attention.

Today’s morning sketch of Eagles Band member Don Henley. 

Oops. They were talking about his friend and fellow band member Glenn when I started writing DoNs name. Now I broke it and I have to fix it. Sigh. 

Let the painting begin. 

Margaret off the Key West tomorrow and would pack if she had any clothes that fit for 82 degree weather. Guess I will shop when I get there.