Scavenger Hunt from Life #148: Feb 7 - Feb 15

[AiArts]

Grapes: Thanks so much. Your interior drawing is awesome. Love the plants texture too. Enjoy the plein air. It sounds wonderful.

Joan: Thanks so much. Stunning collection of car, interior scene, open bar. Love all wonderful details in each scene. What a lovely group photo of New York urban sketchers.

Jo & Viv & other: Hello.

Joe1: Thanks so much.

 

[jmfletch]

Ai - Neat quick sketches. Cars can be tough as most of the edges are curved and the is hard to capture with line. Good job! All the food items are near perfection. They also all look delicious. The interior sketch with people and lights looks very impressionistic. Still amazed how you and Tone stay so slim with all those fabulous cafes.

Jo - Only view from out PT is of parking lot and ice cream store actions the street. Drawn it a few times now. Nice pen work. Having followed football in a couple of decades but like the Superbowl more for the commercials. Retirement can be a challenge eh?

Joan - You have perfect timing on you landscape. I am practicing trees in watercolor. Kind of repeat a tree for the seasons. Saving yours as a reference. The other thing I still play with is varying the water to get the right color. Your colors flow from pale to intense so well. Few more years of practice and I might get there. Thought you said you never did a ‘big one’ then post a photo of almost 40 people. Have not been in a room with that many people in about 20 years.

Grapes - Excellent. Love the shading. Summer event sounds fun. And the area looks gorgeous with so many beautiful sites.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[Grapes]

Fletch, thanks!
Some days can rain a lot.

 

[Grapes]

Ai, thanks!
Still 5 months away. Plenty of time to practice.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Grapes, Good for you for getting out in the cold with your USK group. Applause. Also for a lovely sketch and entering the paint out. I did that a few times, started first one in Nova Scotia. Such fun and met so many nice people. Your sketch shows depth and good shapes, ellipses. Thanks for practicing with us.

Joan, Yep, I think I like talking more than painting sometimes. Great group. You inspire us to get out and about.

Hi, Ai!

Fletch, thanks. Yes I paint and sketch the same scenes over and over., too. Should get better, doesn't always happen. Ha.

I was looking for one of my little buckets this morning and found this one and was surprised to find it full of sketchbooks. After drawing them I looked inside the open ones. Only the next to last has sketches from being in my purse 20167-18 not complete. The middle one with flowery look is actually a puzzle book. I'm on #18 out of 75. Don't remember it at all and no notes as to where it came from or dates. Hmmm. In the large Canson sketchbook with Micron 03.
#2 painting supply - sub the small sketchbooks
#3 bucket - about 8 inches tall

 

[Grapes]

Jo, thanks so much!
Interesting! Where else did you go pleinairing after Nova Scotia?
Your right, you meet so nice new ppl and old acquaintances in these pleinair events!
Such a treasure bucket you found to model for you! In your drawing the books fit in nicely, beautiful drawing!

 

[Joan T]

Grapes, we have been averaging about 40 sketchers lately. We meet every weekend and then someone hosts an event during the week too. In addition there is a small offshoot that usually meets outside of the city...so if I wanted I could sketch with them 3 times a week. I've been to Wexford. My friend participated in the Art in the Open one year.

Ai, thanks so much. We had a very busy day and a big crowd.

Fletch, thanks. Our group of sketchers has really grown recently. Each week there seems to be 40+ people...not quite as intimate as it used to be. lol

Jo, I love the bucket of sketchbooks. I always find it interesting to look at the older ones and see how my sketching has changed.

We had about 4 inches of snow overnight. I was content to stay indoors today. You would think I would get some hunt items done, but that didn't happen. Grrrr!!!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Grapes thanks so much. I went a few places in Nova Scotia. Then mostly in New Mexico mountains where we grew up and used to spend summers out of the heat here in Central Texas. And a few places around here. Plein air is my favorite way to paint. If I can't go out I like still life. Don't paint from photos unless I have to. Went to a workshop in Montana that included an event at the end. We traveled all over Canada for about 15 years. Gene would ride his bike 35_+ miles and I would paint plein air, usually alone, but did meet some artists in the same area, and meet him at the end of his ride.

Joan, thanks. I look back at my sketchbooks and see I sketch about the same. I have learned about new equipment and tried other styles, but being my lazy self, I go back to the "usual". I do think my watercolor additions are better than the old days.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Sketched in the big Canson Sketchbook top third of page with Micron 03.
Number 4 plate - subbing ceramic hat dish for kitchen sponge or ????

 

[Vivien]

Fletch - Hi there

Grapes - Oh you are going to Ireland! How lovely will that be! My husband and I did a week's Bus trip around Ireland, some years ago. How magical is that wonderful country! I will think of you there sketching, while you are there! (My husband's ancestors came out from Ireland to NZ, about 1849, so it was a nostalgic visit for us).

Joan - I wouldnt want to sketch outside in the snow either, so wise decision.

Jo - What fun to find a bucket of Sketchbooks! You would have had a wonderful time looking through them.

 

[Vivien]

1 Valentines Day One of my Grandaughters made me a lovely gift of Homemade chocolates for Valentines Day. She made a beautiful job of them and had them wrapped in cellophane with a homemade card for me and also a card with the flavors she'd put in each chocolate. I was so touched that she'd gone to so much trouble for me!

 

[AiArts]

#7 elephant ...a business sign of our local brand cafe ...The Thai wording is the Thai coffee brand called "Punthai Coffee"

 

[AiArts]

#8 sub. turtle with a horse...a wooden sculpture in our lux and famous shopping mall, called Icon Siam.

#9 open ... interior of another corner of the same shopping mall

 

[Joan T]

Jo, the ceramic cowboy hat is so fun. It works well as a model and as a sponge holder.

Vivien, I did get out yesterday to sketch the snow. I'll have to go take a photo of it to post. I never got around to it yesterday. It was a lot milder so sitting in my mobile studio was quite comfortable. Oh, what a special gift of chocolates! Your sketch is great! I love the translucence of the cellophane bag. Enjoy them...you can share if you want. lol

Ai, interesting elephant shaped sign. I love the way you did the horse itself and that wonderful background...so granulated!! Nice sketch of the inside of the shopping mall.

 

[Joan T]

5 - nature - watercolors

6 - Valentine's Day related - watercolors and ink

 

[jmfletch]

Jo- Love the bucket of sketchbooks and puzzles. A Stetson sponge dish? Only in Texas.

Vivien - What a beautiful gift! You obviously have a talented and creative granddaughter. And her Nana rendered it well.

Ai - Fun find of elephant shaped dig. The horse sculpture is beautiful as is your painted version. Nice perspective on the in

Joan - thanks for more trees. Beautiful flowers.

#1 Glass - Mason jar. Mason jars are frequently used as a glass in the south; be it sweet tea or booze. Mechanical pencil, fingers and eraser in A5-ish sketchbook.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[AiArts]

Fletch: Thanks. Nice mason jar with great reflection on the glass.

Jo: Thanks. Wonderful sponge plate/tray... that plate looks so neat. Good details in bucket with super sweet sketchbooks.

Joan: Thanks. Lovely Valentine's flower pot and gorgeous nature scene.

Viv: Thanks. Fantastic Valentine gift set chocco collection too. Sweet indeed.

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, thanks. Nice shading on the Mason jar and the lettering. My nephew and his wife (Atlanta) had Mason jars on stems as their "champagne glasses" at their reception.

Ai, thanks so much.

7 - building - watercolors and ink (I had to do one snowman after our snowstorm from the other day.)

 

[AiArts]

We made a day trip to our country cabin today as we got one day off from a national holiday.

#10 a) nature ... directwatercolor..of part of our cabin with bougainvillea and yellow flower trees blooming season..

Next from a garden theme cafe, en route to our cabin...

#11 free space of honey cake from the Cafe KonRukSuan (...translated as garden lovers Cafe)
#10 b) more nature ... blooming exotic orchids, growing on a big tree trunk
#10 c) more indoor potted plants at the cafe

 

[Joan T]

Ai, I love that first one of the bougainvillea. It is so colorful and looks even better than IRL. It is great that you are surrounded by nature and flowers, even at the cafes you go to. Here we are surrounded by snow again. We had about 3 more inches of it last night. It isn't much of a problem for us because the development comes and plows everything, and we don't really have to go out. I may go out later once it warms up and sketch the snow. Right now it looks so pretty. Here's the view from my patio for those of you who don't get to see much snow where you live.