Scavenger Hunt #139: Nov 27 - Dec 5

[Joan T]

Scavenger Hunt #139: Nov 27 - Dec 5
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 welcome. We hope you can have some good times here. You can travel the world seeing the sketches of items at hand by the artists.

If you’ve participated in at least one Scavenger Hunt and have time to host one we would really appreciate it. You can sign up by posting your name on the current hosting schedule in the Art From Life forum here:

https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-host-sign-up-list.2481/

Here are the rules for the Hunt:

• All everyday common items on the list must be sketched from life – not imagination or photo reference.
• Each object you draw can count for only one item on the list, no matter how many shapes/parts/colors that object contains. This was agreed on by unanimous vote among the participants.
• You may place multiple objects together in a drawing or painting, and may count these objects as separate items, but no single object can count for more than one item.
• All items posted must be numbered. Count them as you go. The first item you post will be #1 regardless of its place on the list. Do them in whatever order you wish, but count them in the order in which you sketch them, from 1 to 26.
• Do as many or as few of the items as you like. You don’t have to finish the entire list to participate. The Scavenger Hunt “week” will last for 9 days, with the next hunt starting on the 9th day.
• Please tell us your size, surface, medium, and the amount of time it took you for each sketch. We love hearing about your subjects and setups. Photos of your subjects are welcome.
• Have fun!

*** If you have some hunt sketches completed but little time to read/comment, please post your sketches anyway. Commenting is appreciated but not required.

Scavenger Hunt #139: Nov 27 – Dec 5

A mark-making tool
Something sharp
Oval
Rectangular
Triangular
Something to eat
Something to drink
An eating tool (Challenge – several eating tools)
Something related to travel
Free space
A vehicle
A person
An animal
A landscape
A tree (Challenge – 2 or more different species of trees)
An item of clothing
Free space
A corner of a room
Something to sit on
From the bathroom
Something with buttons
In a tube
Related to Thanksgiving or another holiday
Is decorative
Made of plastic
Made of metal

Have fun!

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks for the list

 

[Vivien]

Joan - Thanks for the new list. I got a couple of sketches done for the last Hunt but didnt get them posted, I might post them for this hunt.

 

[Vivien]

Here's a couple of sketches I began for the last hunt. I'll post them for this one if thats ok.
1. My plastic (not rubber) duck
2. Free space - rose leaf
I hope to get more done for this hunt.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, Hi!

Vivien, glad your sketches worked for this hunt too. Love the Duckie...ah, I love any little Duckie. Nice veining on your leaf.

 

[Vivien]

Joan - Thank you.
Ive been looking through all my folders of Scavenger Hunt sketches from our time on Wet Canvas. I didnt realise I'd done so many Hunts. I kept all my work in folders and I seem to have heaps of them dating back to 2009. A very long time ago now!. I see I used to enjoy putting numerous Hunt items into a composition. Did that lots. I remember Jean was doing the same thing about the same time. She was better at putting so many Hunt items together on one page, far better at that than me! Doesnt time move on so quickly.

 

[AiArts]

Viv: Lovely happy cheerful yellow duck to start this Hunt.

 

[AiArts]

BTW, for you all in the USA "Happy Thanksgiving !!!"

 

[Joan T]

Vivien, I wish I had kept records of things that I posted in the hunts back from when I started. LOL Sometimes Jeanne was able to put all the items in one sketch. I wasn't that good...but I did finish all the items in a hunt fairly often. I can't remember the last time I did that.

Ai, thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who are celebrating today. I'm very thankful for my "scavenger hunt family" here. Many of us have been together for many, many years. Here's a photo of my dad helping us celebrate back in the day.



1 - landscape - watercolors

2 - rectangular house - direct watercolor

 

[Joan T]

Here's a continuous line I did this morning of some of the things on my kitchen table...some things going to my SIL's for cocktails and some other assorted things normally on the table. You know I had to add color too it.
3 - something to drink (vodka & vermouth for martinis) - watercolors and ink
4 - something to eat (olives)
5 - ovals
6 - mark making tools (assorted pens, pencils, brushes)

 

[Vivien]

Ai - Thank you

Joan - Lovely photo of your Dad on Thanksgiving!
Love your watercolor landscapes. Great continuous line sketches and i like the added color.

 

[Joan T]

Thanks so much, Vivien!

 

[NedL]

Hi to everyone
I got busy and distracted but will hopefully join back soon.

I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
We are heading out in a few minutes for turkey dinner with family.

gobble gobble..

 

[Joan T]

Ned, I hope your turkey dinner was good. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[NedL]

Joan, it was wonderful. Thanks for the list. It's a seahorse not a dragon, right? That's neat. I like the sky in the 2nd one. It's fun to see before and after the continuous line with color!

Vivien I love the duck and leaf! I'm going to go back through the last hunt ... I only really looked at the ducks!!

It was a nice day here today. I went to a place you can only get to at low tide. I don't think I've ever seen anyone there, and even though the coast was crowded with holiday visitors today, it was just me. You can walk through the gap between the big rocks on the left, but you come to the water. One year the sand was high enough to get through to the next beach, but that was the only time. Usually if I sketch what's in front of me, it's going to be rocks.

#1 landscape

a photo:

Looking toward the ocean from the same spot...

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Awesome blind contour sketches with and without colors.

Ned: What a majestic place within your reach... very cool sketch.

I just finish teaching for this semester... but there are still lots of other forms of work... grading exams, research, etc. but at least I should have a few weeks to breath before next semester start in Jan 2025.

 

[Vivien]

Ned - Beautiful place to sketch! And I like your sketch, with all the light and dark values there!

Ai - Enjoy your holiday break, even though seems as if you will still have a lot of work to get through.

 

[Joan T]

Ned, thanks. Yes, it is a seahorse in the sketch. I love seeing your rock sketches! I hope you don't get stuck out there at high tide. Nature is so impressive.

Ai, thanks. I hope you have a bit of a breather before the new semester.

Vivien, hope you are enjoying the weather out there. It should be warming up...but we're finally getting temperatures that are a bit cooler.

7 - tree challenge - watercolors and ink

 

[Vivien]

Joan - Impressive house and i like the way youve rendered the trees too! Did you use masking fluid for the tree branches? You make such a wonderful job of your watercolor landscapes!

Yes our weather finally heating up here in NZ. Weve had lots of rain down here, but no flooding. Its the first of Summer today, and I do hope we get more sun and less rain as the Summer progresses! And Im also hoping to get out and about over the Christmas Summer holidays and sketch and paint outside in the sun.

 

[AiArts]

Happy Birthday Joan