Scavenger Hunt from Life #151: Mar 03 - Mar 11

stephanie

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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:


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 from Life #151: Mar 03 - Mar 11

red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet
rainbow
brooch, pin
ring
bow, ribbon
shoes
hat
decorative
ornate
plain, simple
elegant
funny
casual
vintage
useful
round
square
triangle
tall
long

Feel free to use Association to substitute but share your associations.
We really want to see your art so Please post even if you do not have time to comment.
 
Stephanie, thanks so much for the new list.

A friend and I sketched in Sea Cliff, a town with some really interesting and historic houses.
1 - useful (railing) - watercolors and ink
2 - tall building
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3 - ornate (ironwork above the door) - watercolors and ink
4 - simple awnings

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stephanie, thanks for the Hunt with variety!

Hi everyone.

Joan, as always your buildings are so solid with great form. I like the colors and like Ned and Ai said. Ditto.
 
With all that has been going on friend of mine is organizing an original art postcard drive to send artwork to the people of Lviv, Ukraine. She had done several postcard drives in the past that went to our troops overseas. I did the first of my postcards for this drive today.

5 - yellow phragmites grasses - watercolors
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6 - red stop sign - watercolors and ink
7 - long boat mast and telephone/electrical pole


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Joan - Great job on the buildings they are beautiful! Love the colors in them and also the yellow grasses stand out against the blue sky - lovely work! Best wishes to your friend who is sending postcards to Ukraine. I was appalled at that tv interview! Which of course the whole world saw!
 
Joan the grasses are so well done with movement and delightful color. The building with detail, flag and cars ... outstanding!

Hi Vivien, Happy to see you! Yep dirty laundry in public for all the world to see.
 
Stephanie. - Thanks for the list

Joan- you really should teach a class in painting brickwork. Super. Your cars are getting almost as good as your buildings which is high praise. Love the shades and tones of the dune grasses.

Ned, Ai, Jo and Vivien 👋🏽👋🏽

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
 
Joan, excellent work on the buildings, street views and the grass field! 👏

#1 useful - Icebreakers, oil on canvas paper, 20x30 cm pleinair. I was hoping to paint ice but ice was mostly gone.

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Wow... Grapes... such a useful and beautiful and wonderful Icebreakers. Great oil work.

Joan: Fantastic on yellow grass... the shadow is super. The plein air building with red flags and vehicles are so good.
 
#1 - a) useful..."cat toy"...a girl holds a cat toy stick to tease a cat at a cat cafe

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#1 - b) useful ..."cat face guard"

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#1 - c) useful ... "cat bed"

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#1 - d) useful ...cat shelf
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#2 casual

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A Thai dish of veggie coconut flakes dips ... Done with pencil and wc.

PS. To eat this, we drop some dip sauce in the middle of herbal veggie leaves, then we roll it in our mouth to enjoy...

#3 red -- dry shrimps
#4 green -- veggie leaves
#5 white -- bowl
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