Scavenger Hunt #134 - October 18 - 26

[Robin Gillis]

Hello Art Buddies, Lurkers and Tagalongs -
We are here because making art is part of our lives. Please feel free to post your sketches from life. Getting thru the list in 9 days is a challenge but just joining in is lots of fun. For specific guidelines see previous hunts. Basically any media, current sketch from life, can use broad and distant associations with the item. (We enjoy reading about the trail of association/ connection))

So here's the list

1 - piece of snail mail
2 - book shelf
3 - table
4 - green
5 - yellow
6 - blue
7 - brown
8 - advertisement or label
9 - an ornament
10- round
11 - flat
12 - folded
13 - free space
14 - drawer pull
15 - a pair
16 - roadside billboard or store front
17 - from your past
18 - street light or signal
19 - the center of something
20 - corner of something
21 - tool
22 - for cleaning
23 - free space
24 - music
25 - bigger than your hand
26 - interlocking

 

[Jo Castillo]

Robin thanks for the list. Sketched in the small sketchbook with Acurit 03.
Number 1-pair, folks under the umbrella

We had 4 cooler days to get out in the patio area. Nice.

 

[NedL]

Thanks for the list!

 

[Vivien]

Thanks for the list Robin!
Jo - I saw your husband was ill in hospital, thinking of you both.
And to all who experienced the last 2 hurricanes - hope your recovery going ok, thinking of you too.

 

[Joan T]

Robin, thanks for the list.

Jo, glad you were able to sketch on the patio there. Nice!

1 - green - watercolors and ink
2 - round wreath on the doorknob
3 - flat flag in the window

This was done at the Rialto Fish Market.
4 - pair of fish mongers - watercolors and ink
5 - bigger than my hand (the fish in front in the big box)
6 - label on the box

 

[Robin Gillis]

JoC- glad you could get some fresh air and sketch a bit. Blessings on Gene and you...glad you have each other to love.

Joan - nice crop focus on house front, love the different plant textures , brick and windows couched in open wall...Wow, fun fish mongers sketch. When I was a girl in high school I worked at a candy shop on an ocean pier. Walking to work I would pass a fish market like that, big fish and men with high boots and raincoats.

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Great start of this Hunt with wonderful lines of the pair.

Joan: Such a charming set of sketches from Venice. My fav. was the fish market scene but the zoom in green door is awesome with those delicate textures of plants and bricks.

 

[AiArts]

Today I played a bit with Neocolor water soluble crayons...in a 9x12 inch Fabrioano Vanezia watercolor sketchbook

#1 green bottle
#2 blue bottle
#3 yellow passion fruit
#4 brown ceramic plate
#5 a pair of tomatoes

 

[jmfletch]

Hey! Trying to get back to art everyday.

Jo - Cooler temps do seem to lift spirits. Nice pen sketch. Your strokes look full of fun. Tried ink today and can say my strokes are much more deliberate and more filled with intent than fun

Joan - The doorway painting wall has been studying the way you do brick work. The second brought back memories. There used to be to be a fish market on Liberty Ave a few blocks from our house. My mom shopped there. Remember all the ice and trays of fish. Thanks.

Ai - Love the almost classic looking still life. Do you just draw with them like oil pastels or do use water and brush? It looks like you do some of both.

Robin, Ned, Viv -

#1 music. Ear buds. They are main way I listen nowadays. I received a rather unique pen in the mail it came addressed to me but I did not order it. Still a mystery, but figured it might be a challenge to use ink while getting back into daily drawing. The pen uses cartridges labeled carbon ink which I have never heard of before. Drawn in pocket sketchbook.

Oh other interesting thing is all the paperwork with the pen and the ink are in Japanese. Only English are words Carbon Ink on the side of the cartridge packaging.
Keep sketching
Joe

 

[NedL]

Fletch -- glad to see you back online! Is it a fountain pen? Looks like a "platinum desk fountain pen"!

 

[jmfletch]

Fletch -- glad to see you back online! Is it a fountain pen? Looks like a "platinum desk fountain pen"!

Yes it is a fountain pen. Thanks for welcome back

 

[Joan T]

Robin, thanks. Fun story about your younger days.

Ai, thanks. You got so many if the colors in onebsketch. Nice!

Fletch, glad to see you sketching again. Was the fish market on Liberty Ave the one where they fried the fish too? If so, that place was so good! Thanks for the nice comments about my bricks. Nice sketch if the earbuds. Maybe it is Platinum Carbon Ink. I use that. I know it comes in cartridges, but also in a bottle which is how I buy it. Ned may be right about the pen.
7 - yellow awning and table cloth
8 - brown chairs

9 - corners of buildings - watercolors and ink
10 - street light

 

[AiArts]

#6 round ...an umbrella
#7 center of something...a fountain ...done with TomBow brush pen...then I dab some water on it.
#8 a pair of chairs

 

[AiArts]

Fletch: Neocolor is a set of water soluble crayons. You can leave them dry getting OP like effect, or put water over it. In my fruit still life, I put water over it.

Joan: Beautiful warm yellow, brown tone glow of Venice. The breakfast table gave wonderful depth too.

All: Thanks for your kind support.

 

[brianvds]

I had opportunity to sketch this gnarled old tree, and only then looked through the week's list to see if it would fit in anywhere. Well, let's see... I know: bigger than my hand!

 

[Robin Gillis]

With the “grands” today….will be back later with comments

Meanwhile here is 1-green. 2-brown. 3 - center of something

 

[jmfletch]

Joan - That’s the one. Just off Lefferts next to a restaurant (St John’s?) Loved the fried eel. The first painting with man sitting is nice and quite detailed but the cityscape with the bridge is a show stopper.

Ai - umbrella is nice but the fountain after brush work is WOW can almost hear the water.

Brian - Excellent rendering of tree.

Robin - The reindeer and tree are cute. The god’s eye mobile is super. Did you make it? I know you are do crafts. I made a god ‘s eye many years ago. Very meditative but took a lot of time.

Ned - Good eye! You know your pens. Only pen I can recognize is Lamy. We looked up Platinum Desk Fountain Pen and that is it. Still no clue from whom.

#2 round - Stopper on leather bound wine bottle. Was a gift but neither of us remember the occasion or from whom but have had it for decades. New pen in pocket sketchbook.
( The neckdoes not curve but can’terase ink. )

Keep sketching
Fletch

 

[Joan T]

Ai, your sketches are great. I especially love the fountain…nice with the ink wash. Thank for your comments.

Brian, super job on that gnarly tree…so many branches.

 

[Joan T]

Robin, I like the colorful God’s eyes and the Christmas decorations.

Fletch, funny how we both know that fish market. There are so many street scenes with lots of building and lots of details. Thanks. Mmm, nice leather wine bottle. That’s different.

Below is part of the decorative work above the main altar inside Our Lady della Salute. It was a rainy afternoon so it was a good place to sketch and stay dry.

11 - free space- watercolor pencils and watercolors

 

[Robin Gillis]

ןAi….nice bottle and veg still life. The tomatoes look life like, Lovely fountain sketch study. The wet ink is miraculous. Sweet umbrella.

Fletch - art every ROCKS. Good Luck. I love my carbon ink fountain pen but haven’t used it in ages. Will soon, thanks for nudge. So cool that anonymous artwas thinking of you. Sweet little earplugs. The gods eye mobike was a group effort. I did 2 and the four grands ( ages 12-5) did the rest. They were surprisingly careful and patient. We gave it to my daughter for mothers day this year.

hi Ned- hope you catch some sketches

joan…lovely sketches. Great spacious depth ans clear details. So glad you are getting some italy down.

Brianvds…very knarly sketch, dude