Really like this one now. Bright colorful. Just like Hippo Hop. 
This one still needs something.
Not sure what but both look a lot better with color. At least to me.
Today we had a picnic and art In The park. A big hit with Liv and Henry. Livie kept on paintingfor quite a while after we got home.
Time to put the grandkids to bed and watch the last episode of Shameless which is my favorite tv show. LOVE the Gallaghers and their crazy lives.
Margaret heading home manana. Xoxoxoxo
Auvers Van Goghs Blue Church on the hill my version
But I knew that. 
This article based on a forensic analysis of his death says otherwise. 
Of course I can’t get to my sketchbook and share a map of Auvers. It’s in Augusta and I am not.
Go on a Viking Seine River cruise in the winter and they will take you to Auvers since Monets Giverny near Normandy closes in October.
Margaret in Atlanta with the grandkids. Xoxoxox
This painting is all about using different blues.
The High has several gun slit shaped wndows – tall and narrow- at the ends of corridors. They always have interesting views.
I had to think long and hard how to paint this one because basically all the buildings were a version of white and grey.
The sky is cobalt. I used cerulean and burnt sienna for greys onthe right hand building. the left building got more cobalt watered down.
Then I started adding black made with cerulean and burnt umber.
The changes are almost imperceptible.
Anyway grandkids time in Decatur. Ttyl
Xoxoxo Margaret
Best thing about congressional hearings is getting to draw the talking heads. My dear friend Ruth Pearl and I would LOVE to be court reporters of any needs us. Too much fun. Will share a couple of hers with you after I ask her. 
AND I finished this hahnemuhle journal. Now I can go back to stillman and birn. The hahnemuhle hated the tombow markers. When I tried to brush them out the paper peeled. WHAT?!!
And the spine is totally broken and falling apart. Last time that happened was when I first used Stillman and Birn. They sent me a stack of four to replace that one book. WHAT was I thinking changing even if it was to try out a nice non plastic covered journal. Sigh.
Page 1&2
Tombows. Always fun not as messy as watercolors BUT I think I will paint the other two pages I drew today. 11 heads all together.
Have to say he’s DIFFICULT to draw. Not sure why.
One tip. You can draw these guys in 5-10 min. If u start where he’s looking right and don’t finish wait. Sooner or later he will resume the same position and you can finish. Try it – it’s a lot of fun. That’s how I did the big one. Every time Schiff or Nunez questioned him I worked on the big one some more.
Page 3&4
Page three. Especially like the one on the bottom right.
Ink ones are my Lamy Ef a sweet writing pen with noodler brown ink.
Margaret who might have to listen to more news. Xoxoxox
I drew this the first time the first trip I made to the High Museum to see the European Masters. What a show!! Can’t rave about it enough.
This was his original. About 5×7 feet. Mine is tiny in my Stillman and Birn Zeta which is 6 x 9 1/2″.
The orange is cad yellow and cad red light.
Brown is sepia which I roughly brushed With the side of my Escoda pearl brush while the orange was still wet.
Blue skirts are cerulean.
Outlining sepia done with my Vlad sword brush.
Flesh same as the background different proportions.
Hair sepia and cad red light.
Margaret ready for bed but having to stay up till her experimental blueberry orange pound cake cools wondering WHY my blueberries didn’t mix in like they should. Most ended up on the bottom of the pan though I coated them and folded them in to the cake. 🤔🤔🤔☹️xoxoxo
Out the second floor window at the High
This still needs work. Meant to do it today but went to Lion King instead. It was almost standing room only. The cgi was amazing. The animals looked so real.
And still haven’t decided if this is done. Maybe there’s too much yellow background?! Seemed like a good idea except I don’t seem to like one solid color. Will have to think about this.
When I was home I spent a lot of time looking for a sketch of Kate I did a while back. Finally found it in the FIRST palace I looked. And I looked there several times. How did I miss it. Now to get Miss Kate painted. Time is running OUT!!
Margaret who has to watch the first Fantastic Beasts so I can figure out what was going on in the second one. Of course I find all the cgi highly entertaining. Xoxoxo
Taking a sketchbreak after going to see the European Masters from Phillips in DC. sad to see it go.
There are three large statues n the lobby of the High with benches to sit on in between.
Since I wanted focus on the one of the left I drew it in a lot more detail than I did the others farther away.
Lamy Vista Noodler Eelskin Ink
Margaret xoxoxo
The male cardinal has made his appearance. Fun stuff slopping paint on with the sword brush. same colors as yesterday.
Loving the abstract quality of these.
Margaret whose off to bed as soon as Zoe comes in. Xoxoxox
Monday is portrait class over in Aiken. Can’t remember our models name. She has. A few issues. Forehead too high. The dent to the left of her eye is too deep but maybe her cheeks too fat. And the right shoulder needs some definition.
First break. She looks like a ghost. NO PENCIL sketch. Eeek. Always makes me nervous. But it can be done. Onward and upward.
Second break. That ghost is still there. I do t seem to make much progress drawing the beginning with paint. And it definitely stresses me out that I can’t erase it.
Third break. I get tired of poking about and slap the paint on.
I lifted bits of white to the left of her left eye but think it may be a bit too much. So I will stare at her a while and decide.
Colors used. Charles Reid palette. Used a lot of opera pink since she had a rosey glow with a mix of cad red light and cad yw light for flesh. Cerulean cobalt peacock blue burnt sienna on the face
Hair is a wash of cad yellow light first. Then yellow ochre burnt sienna cerulean mixed with burnt umber and finally cobalt mixed w Burnt umber. Her hair like a lot of blondes has a lot of greys in it cerulean makes a great grey.
Oh and that black dot on her right cheek is NOT a mole but where I touched it w my dirty pinky knuckle. Sigh.
Top is yellow ochre burnt umber alizarin and cad yellow light.
Margaret who has a headache from stressing over the painting. What we do for fun. But the sinister grunge seems to be gone. Hurrah. Xoxoxox
Or is it just stopped up sinuses. Either way. Yucky. My bird drawing craze goes back at least six years or more. Some early ones. 
Parking lot seagulls probably in a Strathmore mixed media. 
I draw better birds now. All these were drawn while watching the birds.
Chicken chasing 
Parrot rescue in Pigeon Forge 
Drawing pelicans before we eat at Key Largo – Buzzards Roost. May be there soon hurrah.
Key west ibis from the Key West Wildlife Rescue. Love
These guys. They magically show up in droves when Lloyd the bicycle tour leader comes because they know he has snacks for them.
Love the ibis hmm and the chickens and the parrots and hmm I love drawing birds. Parking lot seagulls were lots of fun too.
Margaret year Xoxoxoxo time for Endeavour.
Margaret McCarthy Hunt Art 