Recent content by jmfletch

#1 Hot - coffee thermos - This is not graphite. After reading the article on drawing from life with color pencils, I had to try including the limited Zorn palette that was mentioned ( Black, white, yellow ochre and cad red [I substituted Scarlet Lake]) Keep sketching and learning Fletch

Apologies to all. I have been popping in and out lurking as it were and missed commenting on some nice world. Robin - Your sketches have always inspired. You were first artist I saw using value vice color now every time I read about the concept your art is what I picture in my mind. Most...

Ai - Love “Hope” , it is a simple line sketch but you captured her body language searching for a cudtomer. 👍🏽. Miss Lily looks she is enjoying. That sketchbook looks really easy to tote. 5x5 in? Jo - here the periodic hurricanes trim them back. In Hawaii, where they had few highways, they...

Joan - beautiful seascape Ned - Sorry to hear of leak accident but still produced a neat airport drawing. Sounds like one of our urban travelers has great tips. Poets Walk painting will make a nice trip memory. Ai - Love you painting direct. Never would have thought of bougainvillea as...

Jo - looks like Joan cooked your road runner Ned - Nice work. Really like your ink shading. Joan actually a nice dmetch but could not let joke pass.

Robin - like the textures and fan movement as well as the soft colors but got the feeling of “warmth” so guess reaction is a personal one. The shadow made me smile and the ‘collection’ made me laugh. We have something like a collection as you buy a spice fir a particular recipe. Use 1/4 or...

Joan- Neat pysanky egg. When we lived in RI Sharon had a friend who painted them as a hobby. We must have at least a half dozen of them but not sure where they are buried “for protection”.😎 We also have a few pieces of Christmas and Valentines candy still around. Curious. Is that a dessert...

Jo. - Your Easter bonnet is a super keepsake and beautifully rendered in pastel. Love the flutes. Might draw a flute as a sub as well. Ai - pictures of your beautiful daughters always brung a smile. It has been fun to watch then grow up through your art. As Joan said would br great to make...

Joan, excellent.

Happy Easter to all. Ai - What a great colorful opening. My fav is the seahorses. Looks like Miss Lily and Miss Iris got some of their mother’s artistic genes. Beautiful work by both ladies., Jo - Hunts do seem to be going faster. Glad you suggested making them longer. Keep sketching and...

Welcome to the Scavenger Hunts from Life. The Hunts were started in 2006 by Jamie Williams Grossman as a way to practice with prompts. Artists have come and gone while forming some lasting friendships. We hope you will join in and tune up your sketching skills. All levels and techniques are...

Joan - Our thoughts and prayers are with you sorting through the paperwork resolving the checking issue. Nice line work on the condiments and menu. Ai - I like the soft style of the garden. It is relaxing to look at 👋🏽👋🏽 Jo, Ned, Robin. And all the lurkers👋🏽👋🏽

Ai, Will start checking more. Just never occurred to use water with markers. Gotta think outside the box more.

Robin - So full of fun. Thanks for the smile. #2 bird - doll bird. I used a lot of artistic license.😎 This is about 1/2 page in a 7x10 sketchbook. Sketched in pencil than added watercolor. Reference is part of one of Sharon‘s dolls. Keep sketching and learning Fletch

Jo, seems a I dropped a definite article that changed the meaning of my sentence. Correction: Found a bird in the house I don’t remember ever drawing. (The bird is in a nest not a house.)