A summation of my diet. What I learned.
I should have added that people don’t recognize me anymore if they hadn’t seen me in a month or two or they think is that Margaret?!
High school friends have no problem recognizing me thug cb they haven’t seen me in years.
Tells you something.
Then there are friends who ar ESP funny bitting their tongue when they say you looks so much younger. Better still I feel younger.
Winsor Newton magenta wc marker and cad yellow light with a touch of card red med.
A journal page from last week. All are drawn now. Still have about five left in my coloring book to color.
Cad red WN WC marker, fan I’ve, cad yellow light, sap green, cad orange and yellow Ochre . A murky green tombow and a very light blue one.
Off to Columbia. Enjoy this beautiful fall weather.
Margaret xoxox in her size 8 skinny jeans. Who knew they are like spanks if they are tight enough. Lol.
I still have four or five of these to color. I colored this with a bright orange tombow and wet it. It was so bright I blotted it off to lighten it up some.
A fun page. Colored with only Tombows.
This is a page that I drew and ever got around to coloring. Only a few of these left. I still have the last few pages to draw from last week so bear with me while I clean up.
I love the way this page turned out. Wished I had stopped while I was ahead with the dark blue and just stuck with the turquoise letters.
Super lettering on this one I think.
But no I had to improve. NOT. It got too dark so I tried blotting it off with a damp Kleenex. Better but not as good as it was.
This is before I started the blotting. You be the judge.
Drawn w a kuretake brush pen in a strathmore mixed media journal. Colored with Tombows. Why are they NOT archival. Nothings perfect I guess.
Off to the y. Yoga time.
Ttyl Margaret feeling lots thinner.
Busy day today. Lost another two pounds. Got to try the Y scale. Anyway. The big painting. It’s like one foot forward and two backwards or even sidewards.
I also got an admonition to create chaos and order and quit loosing my sketch lines at critique like this Matisse. Eek what does that mean.
That’s said I gotta loose those icky shadows on the people and paint some flesh colors back in. Really don’t like the guys legs or the shadows on the mom and the baby now. It’s only paint. If I had time I would hop in the car drive to Aiken and fix it. NAsty!!
Too many hard edges. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. 
Where is my nickel asp gold and pyrrole red. With white I love those colors for flesh. And the shadows too. Like in this one.
I do like sidewalk shadows better now. It’s a big canvas-36×48 and there’s lots to do.
Here’s the sketch from Wednesday two weeks ago.
Still have several more diet journal pages that I have yet to post. So far I have lost 26 lb since the end of August. Now in size 8 jeans. Hurrah. But the scale still says I have more to loose though most people think my scale is wrong. Maybe I will try the scale at the Y Thursday when I go. In the meantime after a couple of days of vacation dieting i.e. eating things I should not be eating it’s time to diet again.
Tombow markers.
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Margaret who really wishes she was hanging out with her grandkids tonite but is home again.
Lots of interesting and Or oddball characters on the streets of Brevard at Halloweenfest Friday.
I took a hundred pics of this guy to get this one.
Should have been sketching these street scenes. 
But
I was too busy. 
This woman has a tude. But I love her. 
Business boomed in the Humane Society Store. 
I love this lady. She never knew I got her. 
And this guy was so tall he never noticed me.
My favorite gremlin
This lady is stylin. 
Who is that girl in the glasses.
Happy Halloween from Sweetwater Flyfishing Camp!!
Margaret xoxox
I really needed sunglasses driving around at the cabin at Sweetwater Flyfiahing Camp and Brevard, Sapphire and Cashiers this weekend. 
The leaves were in peak color. Glorious technicolor.
Color along the Thomson River.
Sweetwater Flyfishing Camp where the leaves were raining down in drifts of gold. 
Just because I like it.
Nite.
Margaret xoxox
The last two posts went on the wrong site. No idea how or why that happens.
Most of these are done with pentel black and sepia pigment pens that love being washed out with a water brush. And Tombows.
Contest Jessicas worst nightmare. Finally a half way decent one. This won second place. First place was a free dr Sketchys. Darn. A prize I would have liked.
Contest What did Jessica do the Black Cat?! I guess the picture tells the story
This is the best one I did all evening I think. . I actually think this one is my favorite now. It was a beautiful pose though her left arm did collapse some as the pose went on.
I drew the legs to short on this one and lengthened them. That’s what the brown mess on the right is. But not so bad. Not like most if yesterday’s.
Thanks for checking by.
happy Halloween.
Margaret xoxoxo
As usual lots of fun but I could not draw to save my life for a while until I drew this one. I had to change pens. My beloved Kuretake pen let me down. This is drawn with a carbon pen and some pentel brush pens. Sepia and Black.
How many bad drawings could I do. Let me count. One
One. What’s with her hand?! Eeek!!
You never know when or even why that happens. I guess it keeps you humble.
Halloween creepy stuff I was so bad. Miniature legs. And that hand. Let’s start over again.
Two. A quick sketch. But still a little off
Three.let’s start over again?! 
Four enough said. 
Five and I put her eyes WAY to high. Dixie is a pretty girl.
Six. FInally a bit better but what a jaw?! This was a contest. Our model has a tree tattooed on her leg and we had to add it to our sketches. I ditched the brush pen after this one.
Better ones tomorrow. I promise. Yes they did get better.
Margaret xoxox
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 
