Scavenger Hunt from Life #157: Apr 20 - Apr 28y

[jmfletch]

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 from Life #157: Apr 20 - Apr 28

Decorated egg
Candy
Easter bonnet (or free space)
Sign
Feather
Whistle
Light pole
Vehicle ( land, sea or air)
People
Fur
Wood
Metal
Glass
Ceramic
Plastic
Brick
Seasonal clothing
Seasonal decoration
Waterscape ( sea, river, canal)
Landscape
Something no longer used much ( portable radio, paper map, etc)
Hobby item other than art
Something you collect
Pet item
Your shadow
Edible

Challenges
1- make a composition of or more items
2 - continuous line
3 - blind contour

 

[Jo Castillo]

Oh, my. Time for another Hunt already. Looks interesting. We don't have doctors this week ... so far. I will try to do the Hunt justice. Thanks, Fletch!

 

[AiArts]

Iris, Lily, and I joined our sketching group to a busy aquarium in downtown Bangkok. There were too many people and sketching in the aquarium area seemed very strange lighting... not good for making art but I tried my best.

#1 edible -- fishes ... well some of them here

#2 waterscape ... sub. with aquarium scape... shark enclosure

#3 glass or glass-like -- texture of jelly fishes

#4 free space ...my wonky seahorses

#1 waterscape ...or aquariumscape by Iris

#1 waterscape ..or an aquarium scape by Lily

 

[jmfletch]

Happy Easter to all.

Ai - What a great colorful opening. My fav is the seahorses. Looks like Miss Lily and Miss Iris got some of their mother’s artistic genes. Beautiful work by both ladies.,

Jo - Hunts do seem to be going faster. Glad you suggested making them longer.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, your trip to the aquarium really started the Hunt with pizazz! Love yours and the girls.

 

[NedL]

Happy Easter.

Ai -- the aquarium is really good and I liked the seahorses too. Fun to see the ones from Iris and Lily!

 

[Joan T]

Happy Easter!

Ned, thanks for the new list. I hope to get started tomorrow.

Ai, how wonderful that the girls joined you in sketching at the aquarium! They are talented too!! I find that some of the rooms in an aquarium have very dim lighting and it is hard to see what you're doing. I once had a palette with loose pans in it that I turned over by accident. All the pans were on the floor and I was looking for them in the dark. lol I really like the first painting of all the different kinds of fish and also the seahorses. Great job!

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, my apologies since the list came from you, not Ned. Thank YOU for the new list!!

1 - seasonal decoration - continuous line

 

[AiArts]

All: Thanks for your kind comments on our aquariumscape.

Joan: Beautiful delicate tulip lines.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Joan, yes, super nice lines on the tulips. I have a happy face.

 

[jmfletch]

Joan, excellent.

 

[joe1It]

Wonderful art Ai .nice line continue,Joan

Hello everyone, happy Easter Monday

 

[Jo Castillo]

joe1lt, happy to see you. Happy Easter Monday back to you!

I played in the pastel dust for about half an hour. Wiped off the last sketch so had a pretty decent background to start with. Assorted soft pastels.

Number 1 Easter Bonnet - mine when I was about 10. My sister had saved it after my mom passed I guess.

Set up

 

[AiArts]

Jo: This is absolutely delightful sketch for Easter celebration. Thanks for sharing the set up pic. too.

 

[AiArts]

#5 people...Lily & Iris...done using kido poster paints...

 

[Joan T]

My thanks to everyone for your comments on my tulips. Hoping to keep sketching them for a while yet. Our last day of painting is today so aside from the simple task of putting everything back where it belongs we'll be home free. lol

Joe, it's good to see you. Hope your studies are going well.

Jo, I love your Easter bonnet! I can't believe you still have it and it looks like it's still in good shape.

Ai, nice that you were able to sketch the girls. Do you have an album of your sketches of them through the years? That would be fun to see.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks so much.... lol... I have not set up an fb photo album for them yet...Great idea.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks, Ai. Oh, sweetness. The girls are all grown up. Where have the years gone?

Joan, won't it be nice to have your things put away in the nice clean closets and cabinets.

I sketched at my footstool in the Conda sketchpad with the Micron 03.
Number 2 whistle - these are flutes I guess but whistle is about all the sound I can get from them. They were re-fired and the black is gunk on the turtles head. From this angle it looks like a hat. Their color and gloss is all gone, pretty much dirt color now.

 

[jmfletch]

Jo. - Your Easter bonnet is a super keepsake and beautifully rendered in pastel. Love the flutes. Might draw a flute as a sub as well.

Ai - pictures of your beautiful daughters always brung a smile. It has been fun to watch then grow up through your art. As Joan said would br great to make an album of your drawings of them over the years.

Joe1 - Hi. Good to see you. Hope studies go well.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[Joan T]

Ai, I think they would love an album of the sketches.

Jo, the painters finished this afternoon and I am slowly trying to put things back where they should go...but maybe in a more organized manner. lol At least most of the stuff that was piled in the bedroom and living room is now back where it belongs. I love seeing your whistles/flutes. I have a similar turtle one that I have to dig out.

Fletch, glad you agree about the album of Ai's girls. They may not want to have one now, but will treasure it when they are older.

2 - pyzanky decorated egg (I have about 6/7 of them that I made myself) - Posca markers and colored pencil


3 - candy (a Hershey's kiss from Christmas) - Posca markers



4 - metal - graphite