Scavenger Hunt #135 - Oct 26 - Nov 3

[Grapes]

Ai, thank you for your comments!

Fletch, lovely drawing and ready for color washes. I hope the paper let's you do what you hope for. I'm sure it does. You have shown here an excellent idea by doing a drawing without shading, just lines, and then adding wash. I might try this approach with my gouache colors. Big thank you and thank you also for your comments on mine!

Joan, your metal stove & owen is brilliantly cute! Love it!
Very nice fruit plate! I like the colors. I feel like I'm on the street in your paintings, they look so real and very well done!
Thank you for your comment on mine!

 

[Robin Gillis]

lots of really nice sketches, ya'll

Good to see some pencil from Grapes....nice detail. sketches have lots of strokes and great forms, solid portrayal.

Ai - great job on the doughnuts.......

Fletch - lovely line drawing just asks for color.....that's all....here's hoping we all get some sketching in everyday.....

Jo - praying for you both....just keep lovin' your guy....

Hi NedL

Joan - thanks for jumping in and hosting....great watercolors,....I like the feel of your digital sketch and OH So understand the time frustration and need to study procreate.....still, it is a nice sketch...very atmospheric

So here we go again...........

 

[Robin Gillis]

1 clothes
2 open
Five minutes each

 

[brianvds]

#1: Cup or mug. Or in this case, two of them stacked. They have multicolored bands running across, them, and drawing all this in black and white was an interesting challenge. As usual, humble HB pencil on printer paper:

 

[Grapes]

Robin, thank you! Your drawings are very nice, I enjoy looking at both of them and find interesting things in your drawings!

Brian, very nice job done with the cups! Looks beautiful! I like the texture.

I decided to try the method Fletch used earlier, just to find out if my drawing/gouache process would work better. Will see. So far I only did the drawing:

#5 orange - orange color pumpkin - which is a decoration pumpkin actually quite heavy material made by clay or something.

 

[jmfletch]

Thanks to all for your kind and encouraging words. Much appreciated.

Joan - Please tell me that you added the name to the awning with a pen? You should do classes in how to paint brick and stone. …and people! Like the violet shadows on the bowl of fruit. My leg is slowly improving Live the digi. Should have used the auto straight lines. It is an easy trick, you just pause at the end of a line and if you do not lift you can move the finish point.

Robin - Clever find for open. Were you ever in the military? Clothes sketch everything looks rolled vice folded. Navy taught in boot camp to roll not fold. Can pack a seabag for days and take clothes out with very few wrinkles.

Brian - Another excellent piece. You have great graphite skills.

Grapes - Nice line drawing. Good luck with the gouache!l

#1a foliage - Had a lot of fun with this! Tried getting lots of different greens. Used Sap green and Hooker green plus lots of mixed greens. Washes were light using a water brush and paper did not buckle. Some leaves came out well but some look flat. Trying to get shades and tones of color is much harder than with pencil. Took lots of artistic license

Keep sketching
Fletch

 

[NedL]

Fletch --- yay! that's cool!

 

[Joan T]

Grapes, many thanks for your kind comments. That looks so real. Good sketch of it. Hope we get to see it gouached.

Robin, thanks. I will have to spend some time learning the Procreate basics that I managed to skip over. I’m always in a rush to get started on something and that isn’t the best way to do it. I like your pencil holder. It is similar to one I have. Good job on the clothes on the shelves,

Brian, wowza on the stacked mugs. Great values!

Fletch, I did the writing on the awning with a white Signo pen. I couldn’t paint around the letters. I don’t know why I didn’t use the straight line feature…maybe because I was so frustrated when my sketch moved on the screen and I couldn’t get I back where I could work on the whole thing, Grrr.. You did a good job getting a variety of greens in your watercolor. Nice!

This took me forever. It is outside the train station looking across the canal. I worked on it in the morning, went back and met Jerry for lunch, and then went all the way back to the same spot to finish the buildings on the left side.

11 - relate to travel (suitcase) - watercolors and ink
12 - red shirt
13 - vehicle (green vaporetto)
14 - skyline
15 - hard lamp post

 

[jmfletch]

Ned, thanks.

Joan 5 in 1? WOW. Nice painting with lots of straight lines!

Keep sketching
Fletch

 

[AiArts]

#4 Boo !!! ... sub. a person with this small piece seen from a shop window, for Halloween ...done in ink, I did this at the end of last Hunt but did not post before ....

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks. Beautiful first spot well captured at the train station to Venice...I remembered how we were very excited there.

 

[AiArts]

#5 metal...an old train locomotive, decorated the park (the park land was donated by the Thai Railway Authority) ...about 15 minutes

 

[Grapes]

Ai, lovely
"Boo"

 

[Grapes]

Joan, spectacular!! All worth of returning to the location!

 

[Grapes]

Fletch, very good looking foliage and lots of work done on the leaves!
Thanks for your comment, I might try to add color today on the pumpkin sketch.

 

[Grapes]

#5 (again) orange part II - gouache pumpkin.
Photo is dark blue because we don't have much light as we're approaching November.

This is the last gouache I paint. I've now officially given up with my gouache colors. They are not worth it. After my try - error - try with gouache I appreciate even more oil colors and how unique they are .
I will now make a try to add a ground of gouache and paint with oils over, probably next week at the cabin, just a pleinair. I doubt gouache under oils will work (because of water under oil = NO). Other option is give them to somebody. I'm done with gouache!

 

[AiArts]

Thanks you all for kind support.

Grapes: I love your gouache pumpkin. They look great. Sorry that you will give them away as they are not your liking. I guess, we each have our individual liking in our art.

Fletch: The plant are super... Glad you gave wc a big go.

 

[jmfletch]

Ai - love the scary Halloween man and the train. 15 minutes? You work fast. I can work faster with graphite but I draw much slower slower with pen literally thinking about each mark. Thanks for kind words on my wc.

Grapes - Love the pumpkin. Not sure if it is the colors or darkness but it projects heavy. Sorry you are giving up on gouache but I understand. Charcoal is the media gave up on. Messier than pastels and never seems properly done. There is lots of charcoal work I admire but it is just not my thing.

Keep sketching
Fletch

 

[Grapes]

Fletch, thank you! I like what others do with gouache and that's why I wanted to try it but I think it's not my thing after all. Your right about charcoal it's like never done. I had a fight with charcoal!
But luckily I enjoy tremendously doing oil sketches so I continue with them.

Ai, thank you so much! I wanted to give it a try and had to give up because I got really angry with gouache a thing that doesn't happen with oils. I have lots of oil tubes left even though I give away the gouaches.

Joan, thank you for your earlier comment, I appreciate it!

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, grazie! I don’t really worry about the lines here. Everything is crooked.lol

Ai, you did a nice job on the train sketch. It has a lot of character. I remember coming out of the train station the first time we came to Venice and standing there amazed.

Grapes, nice sketch of the pumpkin. Sorry you are giving up on gouache I never had much luck with it either. I. haven’t seen too many Halloween related things here. I did see a few kids in costume on Sunday. The time change is affecting my ski time. It starts getting dark at 5:00 now since they changed the time here already.