Scavenger Hunt #154: Mar 27 - Ap 4

[Joan T]

Scavenger Hunt #154: Mar 27 – Ap 4

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 #154: Mar 27 – Ap 4
Comes in a tube
Comes in a bottle
Comes in a can or tin
Comes in a plastic container
Comes in a box
Has a handle
Has a zipper
Has buttons
Has a pocket/pockets
Has a cover or cap
A landscape
Trees
In bloom
Used in a garden
Used in the kitchen
Free space #1
A desk accessory
Useful art tool
Brings back a memory
Fits in your pocket
Free space #2
A rock or boulder
A vehicle
A chair or bench
A building or shed
An animal (real or stuffed)

Have fun!!!

 

[AiArts]

Thanks for the list, Joan.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks for the list!!

I was thinking that we are fewer now so maybe we should make the list go for 13 days instead of 8. That would give us 2 sketches a day if we have time. A free space or two can be added by an artist that finishes the list. It would spread us out a bit more. I can fix the list after the current few, starting May 14. What say you sketchers??

 

[NedL]

Joan -- thanks for the list!

Jo -- I'll leave it to you all who've been around longer than I have, and will be happy with any choice. Not worried about finishing a list but I really like always having a list!

 

[Robin Gillis]

Hi art buddies….good to be back….
joan - I love this list….thanks for hosting…. Lengthening the time ? I think it would be advantageous in a few ways…just thinking about doing two sketches aday and finishing the list! That’s motivation….. i know it not about completion but then again i always feel a tinge of dissatisfaction…plus the hosting roster would not be so many spaces and hosting would last longer maybe more laid back… yadah yadah …..i vote to extend the hunt period to 13 days

 

[Joan T]

Jo, I think that is a good idea to lengthen the time for the hunts. Lately it seems that they are over before I get halfway through. It would be nice to finish a hunt once in a while again. lol

 

[jmfletch]

Thanks Joan.
Signed up to fill void in April. Hunts in May are looking for host s after Jo makes a new calendar.
I have not been very active but hope that is changing. We finalize legal stuff on April 4th

 

[NedL]

It's okay to remove my May hosting and I'll sign up again on the revised calendar. I picked that one because I'll be in NY visiting my daughter at the end of April, and again for her graduation around Memorial Day.

 

[Joan T]

Hi, everyone! Good to see everyone checking in.

Robin, glad to see you are back with us. Yay!!

Didn't have a chance to sketch today. We had our taxes done and the office we go to is quite a ride away...and there was LOTS of traffic. Then we went out to eat and hit rush hour traffic coming back home. I had hoped to sketch at the restaurant, but it didn't work out. Hoping tomorrow I have more time to do some sketching. Have a good night!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Robin, hey there!!!

Hi everyone else. I'll fix the calendar tomorrow, early.

 

[NedL]

This got out of whack somewhere along the way... I even drew a rough outline in pencil first... but there are problems with proportions and angles...

Kind of a odd perspective, I was sitting on the floor with my back against a wall.

#1 chair

 

[Jo Castillo]

It's okay to remove my May hosting and I'll sign up again on the revised calendar. I picked that one because I'll be in NY visiting my daughter at the end of April, and again for her graduation around Memorial Day.

You can keep that the same. We start the new on May 14. Thanks.

The new dates are up now....

Thanks, everyone.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ned, your chair is super! I think the seat is tilted slightly. That is the way ours sits like someone is sitting on it. Ha. I'm not as inspired to take on that view of our chair. I will go for an easier chair. Ha.

 

[Joan T]

Ned, great sketch of the chair. I find chairs like that so difficult to sketch, especially the slats along the back. You did well!

Jo, thanks for taking care of the hosting schedule. I'm going to head over there right now before I forget.

 

[AiArts]

Ned: Such a nice sketch of the chair. Great start of this Hunt.

Jo: Thanks so much for arranging the hosting schedule.

We just had a 7.7 Rictor earthquake today in nearby Myanmar and we felt it in Bangkok and many part of Thailand. Iris felt it and ran outside the house. Me and Lily did not feel the shake as I was driving Lily back home from school. But we all are OK, Tone felt dizzy as he was about to start teaching in afternoon on the 4th floor ... He had written "Class canceled" at the class room's white board before evacuating... Uhm. Anyway, we are safe and together. Downtown of Bangkok are still in chaos though as both the sky-train and the underground metro had stopped their services since the afternoon.

 

[NedL]

Ai -- I'm glad you and your family are safe. I hope the toll is not as horrible as it looks like it could be.

 

[Grapes]

Ai, I read the earthquake news here and was thinking of you and your family. Glad you are ok.

Ned, nice drawing! Interesting structure!

 

[Joan T]

Ai, I am so glad you are all safe! I heard there had been an earthquake, but didn't realize how far it was felt. I just read several news stories about it. It is such a horrible tragedy that has affected so many people. I know there is a chance of aftershocks. Stay safe!

Today was the first day I seemed to have time to go out and do a relaxing sketch. I have just a little more to do before the workmen come on Monday. I don't know how long this will take for them to do this project. There are about a dozen units on this side of the building alone and the pipe work will go through the entire length of the building, so I'm sure it will take a while. I was told we will only have cold running water between 8am and 4pm.

I was down by Silly Lily, a fishing station in East Moriches which has lots of boats pulled up on land. This is postcard sized and will be sent with the other cards I've done for the project. I'll send them out at the beginning of next week.
1 - vehicles - watercolors and ink
2 - building

 

[AiArts]

It's Sat., Tone and I went to see my parents...checking them after earthquake yesterday...They are fine. On our way back, we stop at an orchard style cafe with lots of plants... unfortunately I don't have much time....so I did one small sketch of a water plant....I will definitely come back to this place.

#1 used in garden...a type of water plant...done with wc+pencil

 

[NedL]

Joan -- It looks like a relaxing sketch ... somehow it comes through that you were happy to do it! Very nice.

Ai -- I'm glad your parents are safe and it sounds like getting home ( through chaos! ) will not be a problem for you. That looks like a peaceful scene at the cafe.

I tried to sketch several items related to building fishing rods:

#2 comes in a tube: "probond golden oak" wood filler for filling any tiny pits in cork handles after they are shaped.
#3 comes in a bottle: rubbing alcohol for cleaning up epoxy
#4 comes in a plastic container: "ProKöte" thread finishing epoxy for covering threads and "ProPaste" epoxy for bonding handles and reel seats to the rod
#5 has a handle: thread nippers for cutting thread tag ends very close
#6 has a cap: syringe for measuring thread finish epoxy
#7 useful art tool: thread burnisher for packing and burnishing threads that hold the guides on the rod.

Even though it's a fishing rod and most of the effort is to make it good for the kind of fishing it's for, there are some decorative "art" touches on it. Yesterday I tried to take a photo of the "tiger wrap" ( shimmers green and gold and it moves/changes as you look from different angles ). It didn't have the last coat of epoxy yet that I put on this morning, maybe I'll try to photograph it in the sun, but you sort of get an idea:

Edit: it's all put away but I just realized I was planning to paint in a dark background. Oh well! Next time.