made it
His left eye has been a bugger. I have lifted it and moved it.
A couple of hours ago. Looking in two directions. 👀
Moved a little but eyes two different shapes.
Still not right.
Pupil TOO big.
So now you know why this post is late. Letting his eye dry and then will paint once more.
Or I could do like my grandmother famously did on a pastel she did. Redraw the eye. Cut it out and glue it. 😳
Thanks for reading.
M in a hurry
And Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Finally home. Car unloaded in this heat. 100 degrees. Carrying everything three stories is drippy business know this heat.
Wishing I was up at Newfound Gap where it was 64 cool degrees. 
Heading down the mountain to Cherokee.
Great food at this place. It’s both organic and not expensive. Lunch for $6.95. What a deal. pe.
Loaded with kitschy charm. The owner and chef Jan is a sweet heart. Their chicken salad can not be beat in Gatlinburg. I wish I had her recipe.
A rare hyacinth macaw at Parrot Mountain – the bird the movie Rio is based on. Can’t wait to paint him- bright yellow and a deep purple blue.
Evidently this bird had never been socialized by its former owner so it was nervous and likes to bite. Poor baby.
A few more sketches in GSNP. It’s just a beautiful places. 800 square miles of wonderful views flowers and animals to draw. If you haven’t gone u really should.
Wild Iris
trillium
Forgotten the name of this one. 
More trillium
More Iris
Sketched at an overlook near Newfound Gap. The bottom will have rhododendrons and of course a nice blue sky.
This tiny cemetery was nestled in the trees back near the Park Headquarters at Sugarlands Visitors Center. Remnants of former inhabitants.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx who needs a nap after all the schlepping.
Sketching is like anything else if you want to do it well you have to keep up the practice.
These are drawn with various noodler Konrads in an Aquabee sketchbook.
Maron D’artrementis ink. Great new Noodler Konrad but next time I used it all the ink poured out in my hand.
Zoe was very wiggly when I drew these. Maron D’artrementis ink. 
This was the first one. Eek. What was I thinking. Not enough practice.
I could blame it on the pen with no ink. I couldn’t get up to fill it or she would follow me. And then her pose was shot. Brown document ink all gone.
Reloaded one of the pens. No idea what color the ink was. I think a noodler Creaper in carbon platinum black ink.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx sleepless in Atlanta
Before I unpack do the laundry go to get groceries fill up the gas tank and what else?! Work on my commission map and commissioned socks go to French ummm post photos to an online art gallery – I decided I would do a few animal sketches.
My ever obliging jack Russell Zoe flopped on the sofa in annoyance. She wanted to be in my lap.
The cat. He was intent on a thorough cat bath. He wiggled he moved. 
He turned around 
He was almost on his head.
Then he walked off. I couldn’t I entice him back even with his favorite kitty treat. Sigh.
Funny thing about a cat. When I draw him I get the feeling there’s a lion hiding in his small 9 lb body. Good idea to practice for a trip to the zoo drawing the big cats.
Drawn with a Noodler Konrad loaded with D’artementis document brown. Super Aquabee Tablet.
Thanks for checking by.
Margaret who thinks she will draw Zoe again.
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Another lost Saturday…the day of Hurricane Matthew blowing thru Georgia and the Carolinas trapped on the other website…we did some great work that day.
This is one of my favorite paintings that I have done at life modeling on Saturday.
Sunday. I don’t seem to quit running. Emily acrylic 24×30 painted in about an hour and a half.
Think her forehead is a tad too narrow which is an easy fix. Where I painted it was the black hole of Calcutta. No light because of Matthew pouring outside.
Drew Murphy. Amazing he painted this in about a half an hour. It’s 24×30. Acrylic.
Drews first painting. He didn’t like t so he started over.
Ruth Pearls beautiful conte crayon sketch. 
Al Beyers huge oil. About 3’x4′. Amazing to paint this in an hour and a half. 
Ruth’s second sketch. 
Done by Coach. I need to learn his name. Large charcoal.
FRed Bakers 24×30 acrylic. Another of his mad women. 
Tom Needhams lovely watercolor. Quarter sheet. 
And our newbee who amazes me. A little off but what talent in someone sketching for only a year.
Mine in progress. 
Second break. Maybe I should have stopped here?
After forty minutes.
True Margaret off to Asheville be back tonite. Xoxox napping now. Lol.
Took me three starts to get her located nicely on the canvas.
This is start number 2. If you look in the background u can see traces of the first start.
All that means is that I really only spent an hour or so on this painting which is 20x 24. I got sidetracked on the face and forgot about her lower arm and hand. Oops. And no background to left side.
She’s painted with just a few colors. Titanium white. Pyrrole Red. Nickel Azo Gold. And ultramarine blue.
I am sure I could finish her but I am more interested in messing up my abstract. Right now I really don’t like it. But we shall see.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret who’s going to knit a sock something brainless and easy. Xxx
My friend Ruth Pearl and I had a great time drawing the live bands downtown. Everyone of them was just great we heard was great.
Voxnbass. Nefertiti had a great voice.
These were all drawn in 20 minutes or less. Started with ink. Then used Winsor Newton watercolor markers and Tombow pens. Now and then I used Caran d’ache neocolor ii.
John Dunn band.
JJ Harris Band. First one I did. Not the best.
Ttyl
Margaret off to Columbia for the day. Xxx
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Best made vocalist Shane Davis and
Best female vocalist. This one was actually double sided but I forgot to take a photo of it. Sigh. Didn’t like the first one and started over on the back. Like this one much better.
Both of these are photos taken of photos on my old iPhone. The ones that can’t be downloaded. Crazy right???
Painted with my whiskey painter box loaded with Windsor Newton wc and a few Daniel Smiths using a waterbrush. Worked so well going to do it again.
Excitment.
So many opportunities to draw in Augusta. The Greek Festival. THe Eastern Georgia State Fair starts tomorrow too. Only a quarter to get in. I think I may have to go sketch some animals.
Sorry for the late post…this went to that other silly website that I need to take down. For some reason the ap on my phone defaults to it although I use the Margaretmccarthyhunt.com site 99% of the time. THEN I have to either start over or copy and paste…more long lost posts coming in a minute…
Decided to draw today instead of paint. Partially because I only had a rectangular canvas and the pose was a reclining one.
I never finished this one. No shadow on her face. Paper is Stonehenge print paper which does great with ink and markers.
Most of them were done with a Kuretake brush pen loaded with carbon platinum plus ink and colored with Tombow markers. The red one is done with red watercolor pencil.
All Tombows on canson pastel paper.
Just the brush pen on cannon paper. Took about 20 minutes.
Kuretake brush pen again on canson paper. This took about ten minutes.
And the rest of them……
Cathe Dennis acrylic 24×30 love this. So ephemeral but still solid. And sketchy yet not. 
All Beyer’s huge oil. 3×4?
Our model Ilania checks nc out Als work to give you an idea of how big it is. 
Coachs incipient charcoal. He does a great job. 
Thomas Needham’s beautiful small watercolor. 
Sketching for only a year, Rachel Millers 10×14 watercolor. To think this is one of her very first watercolors. The woman is so talented. 
Mary Donnaus pastel. Love the colors.
Fred’s odalisque Acrylic 24×36.
The rest got away before I had a chance to snap a pic.
Have a great day.
Ttyl
Margaret xxx
Would get an early start. And plot out what I would eat today so s not to go over the 800 calorie limit. 
Sometimes u should change things up when u r getting bored which I was with the diet journal. I think see a very fine pigma micron pen and tried to change the letter style. That’s. It easy to do when you have done a whole book full of bubble style letters.
And this one was painted quickly with all watercolor. I didn’t. Lend out shadows or soften edges but tried to leave the brush strokes here and there.
Off to paint to start a new painting. Here it is. Have a super Monday.
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