Scavenger Hunt #161: May 27 - June 7

[Joan T]

Jo, thanks so much! I may have missed a detail or two. lol

Ai, thanks for your comment. I love your boat shapes and color. Are they fishing boats? I like how you portrayed the shallow water left on the sand. Your noodles and spicy food look yummy...not sure if I would be happy with something so spicy, but it makes a great sketch.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thank you... yes it is a small local Thai fishing boat.... not meant to go too far deep.

 

[Joan T]

I sketched by half of a bagel and 2 eggs this morning. They were a bit too cold when I finally ate them.

7 - breakfast food - watercolors and watercolor pencils

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Awesome yummy breakfast !!!

 

[AiArts]

#9 An omlet breakfast set during my vacation at HuaHin...about 30 minutes

#10 People around HuaHin Pier

 

[AiArts]

#11 heavy...the boats at the low tie...waiting to be maintained ...wc+pencil... about 45 minutes

 

[Joan T]

Ai, your breakfast looks like much more fun than mine! Good captures of the people down by the pier, and of course I love the colorful boats and their interesting shapes.

 

[AiArts]

More people ... My masseuse who has treated my feet... Sketched her with permission.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks so much.

 

[jmfletch]

Joan - super job on the marina painting love all the implied details. Bagels and eggs. Can’t get too much more New York than that.

Ai - Glad you beat the high tide and got one boat in and the food looks delicious. And more food. With all the nice cafes you go to to draw and all the food and drinks you have as model, I amazed you do not weigh 300 lbs. I know I would. Fun people sketches. More boats! Youarein sketch heaven? With a masseuse no less. Great sketches and paintings.

#2 Salt and other spice. Multiple grades of graphite in a pocket sketchbook. See lots of extra lines and missed erasures in photo. Think I need to go bigger LOL

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[Joan T]

Ai, a food massage...heaven!

Fletch, bagels and anything are a favorite of mine. lol How are the bagels down there? I like the salt & pepper sketch. The salt containers are always interesting.

 

[jmfletch]

Bagels, pizza and Junior’s cheesecake are the things we miss most. On plus side is Junior’s now ships anywhere in CONUS. We tried a couple of places that advertise NY bagels but they were not. We found a place with wood fired ovens that is pretty good but even eating it we talk about NY pizza LOL

 

[AiArts]

Thanks so much Joan, Fletch, and all. I am taking it easy today... still carry around my sketch tote but may be will be more on the eating side. Will head back by train to our home in Bangkok tomorrow. Sometimes, you want to paint/draw a hundred times during your vacation ... but I am glad I have done away with just a few...

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, nice break for you, has a string is a great boat with flag and pier. The salad and noodles looks so real, yummy. Oh, and your breakfast and palette is amazing. Looks yummy, too. Great quick litttle sketches of the people. The boats on shore are so different and interesting. The paper was great for that. And a masseuse bonus. Thanks for the photos as well.

Joan, your bagel and eggs made me smile. Super sketch. I used to go in a deli in Albuquerque and one of my acquaintances from work would be sitting there eating lox and bagels. I would order eggs with chile (huevos rancheros). I'd say, "How can you eat that?" and he would say, "How can you eat THAT?" Great fun. I like bagels a lot but never could be happy with lox.

Fletch, I like your salt and spice. You shade things so well. All your talk of pizza and bagels makes me hungry and it is too late to eat now. Sigh....

I sketched during Gene's PT today. I had the day off. I need to add color, will do it now. and post in the a.m.

 

[AiArts]

#12 sub. a landscape with my boatscape at the fisherman village of Hua Hin, not far from where I stay. The boats were parked along the small Hua Hin storm drain canal. I started to paint with bright sunshine, had a 20 minutes of rain, and then back to end the sketch with another bright sunshine. When it was raining, I was under fisherman community gazebo, but some rains still got on me and my papers. I did my best and have fun with it. BTW, the sea is the furthest top of the sketch. I gave you my view of the rained on subjects... done with wc+pencil+ink

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, I remember when my sister and her husband first moved to California. I would go out and visit and bring NY pizza to them. They couldn't get anything that was even close. I always brought care packages places. I used to bring bagels and rye bread to my sister in Maine every time I drove up there.

Ai, I'm glad you relaxed and got to sketch a bit before heading home. You were lucky to have that gazebo to sit under while you painted the boats. That was very handy. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

Jo, I never have lox with my bagels, and also don't have them with cream cheese like most NYers do. I like mine with just a touch of butter. Now I want a bagel for breakfast. lol

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, beautiful boat landscape. Worked good with the rain, gazebo and your talent! Thanks for sharing your relaxing time.

Joan, I like bagels a lot. Not great ones gluten free and for some reason less gluten means more dense and more calories. I only had local bagels, so can't miss the really good NY ones. Ha.

I sketched at PT yesterday and added color at home. Only had about 30 minutes there. Today on the porch so same old landscape. Watercolors and Micron 03.

Number 3 and 4 building and heavy (cars) in the Strathmore travel sketchbook
Number 5 landscape - in the Canson mixed media book, half page

 

[Robin Gillis]

Everyone's sketches are thick with great things.....what can I say???...

Joan - you get more detail in your view than I ever thought possible and still plenty of room for eyes to move !

Ai- the boats are lurid, colorful and looking the photos, OMG - I would not know where to begin!! Great job. Glad you had a nice getaway trip.

Fletch - wow, beautiful form and so many gentle tones ...The seasonings look like a happy couple.

JoC - sweet work on building. Looks cool and inviting.

Hope I can catch a few sketches this evening.....peace out

 

[Robin Gillis]

Did these in 25 fun filled minutes!!! What a rush!!

1 animal - Pangur my cat came to keep me company and do a bit of grooming
2 flower geranium
3 metal framed hammock
4 landscape

 

[Joan T]

Jo, the color added to the cars and buildings really perks up the sketch. I like the red car and the purple reflections in the windows. The landscape looks so calming. Nice work on both.

Robin, thanks for your comments. You snuck in some sketches while I was composing my post. I like your geranium and the hammock in the middle of the landscape. Looks like a good place for a nap in the fresh air. Nice!!

Yesterday I went down to the park by the Bellport dock. Several 2nd grade classes were there having a picnic and playing on the grass. Most of the kids were in another spot (except for the two on the left playing the giant Connect Four game), so I got mostly the adults who were there assisting. It reminded me of our school picnics when I was teaching.)
10 - made of metal (legs of the picnic table) - watercolors and ink

10 - landscape by Sayville Beach Park - watercolors and ink

I think I told you I was doing a piece for the Long Island Maritime Museum. This year they are doing a fundraiser to help cover the cost of repairs to the mast of an old oyster sloop called the Priscilla. In the past the artists participating were given pieces of shingles to paint on. This year they cut the old mast of the Priscilla into rounds that are about 2 1/2 inches thick. Some of them (like the one I painted on) have flat bottoms so they can stand on their own. I used a sketch I had done there on location as a reference for my painting that I did with acrylics. I should have gessoed the base before painting. The paint would have gone on smoother, but I'm happy with the result.