Scavenger Hunt from Life #158 - April 28 - May 6
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Joan T
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Ned, I like your sketch from Poet's Walk. Nice architecture.
Fletch, glad to see your bougainvillea are recovering and flowering. I remember being in sunny locations where they cascade from pots on windowsills. They're always a nice contrast of color against buildings.
Ai, your food vendor looks like she's lacking business. I haven't had any lunch so I would stop and get something from her. Nice sketch!!
Jo, I don't like heights either and wouldn't like a balcony without a railing. Hope you get the urge and do some sketching.
Robin, I like your cute projector. Good job on the hose on that canister vacuum. Nice color of ink too.
2 - up (tulips) -watercolors
3 - steps
4 - down (cascading foliage)
5 - has letters - watercolors and ink
Fletch, glad to see your bougainvillea are recovering and flowering. I remember being in sunny locations where they cascade from pots on windowsills. They're always a nice contrast of color against buildings.
Ai, your food vendor looks like she's lacking business. I haven't had any lunch so I would stop and get something from her. Nice sketch!!
Jo, I don't like heights either and wouldn't like a balcony without a railing. Hope you get the urge and do some sketching.
Robin, I like your cute projector. Good job on the hose on that canister vacuum. Nice color of ink too.
2 - up (tulips) -watercolors
3 - steps
4 - down (cascading foliage)
5 - has letters - watercolors and ink
AiArts
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Sketched at my neighborhood cafe...which has lots of models on display
#3 hot -- waffle
#4 cold -- drink
#5 face -- a man customer
#6 blue -- one of those "Super mouse" model
#7 come to a point -- a straw
#8 a pair -- the other two of "Super mouse" models
#9 down -- bottom of armchairs and bottom of shelf and a coaster
#3 hot -- waffle
#4 cold -- drink
#5 face -- a man customer
#6 blue -- one of those "Super mouse" model
#7 come to a point -- a straw
#8 a pair -- the other two of "Super mouse" models
#9 down -- bottom of armchairs and bottom of shelf and a coaster
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Joan T
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6 - purple flowers - direct watercolor
7 - blue barn
8 - comes to a point (branches) - direct watercolors
Last night the Patchogue Sketch Club was supposed be at the library and our theme was supposed to be "shoes." However, it was such a beautiful evening we changed plans and went to sketch the daffodils down by the lake.
9 - free space - direct watercolors
7 - blue barn
8 - comes to a point (branches) - direct watercolors
Last night the Patchogue Sketch Club was supposed be at the library and our theme was supposed to be "shoes." However, it was such a beautiful evening we changed plans and went to sketch the daffodils down by the lake.
9 - free space - direct watercolors
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Robin, love the nebula projector and the vacuum. They go together nicely.
Joan, the up and down are clever. Beautiful, too. Good find on the Stop sign and Ferry. Nice handling of the complements. I like the purple flowers of course and the tree is so pretty. The free space looks so like spring. Applause!!
Ai, what nice sketches in the Merlin Cafe. The mice are so interesting as decor. Great find for all. Love the colors.
Still in a funk. Worked me hard at PT and then the ballgame was tonight instead of Friday. Must be tests in Arkansas next week for their team or something. Our Longhorns lost big time. 0-9 to the Arkansas Razorbacks. (wild pigs, they call them The Hogs)
Joan, the up and down are clever. Beautiful, too. Good find on the Stop sign and Ferry. Nice handling of the complements. I like the purple flowers of course and the tree is so pretty. The free space looks so like spring. Applause!!
Ai, what nice sketches in the Merlin Cafe. The mice are so interesting as decor. Great find for all. Love the colors.
Still in a funk. Worked me hard at PT and then the ballgame was tonight instead of Friday. Must be tests in Arkansas next week for their team or something. Our Longhorns lost big time. 0-9 to the Arkansas Razorbacks. (wild pigs, they call them The Hogs)
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Ai - Love “Hope” , it is a simple line sketch but you captured her body language searching for a cudtomer. 
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Lily looks she is enjoying. That sketchbook looks really easy to tote. 5x5 in?
Jo - here the periodic hurricanes trim them back. In Hawaii, where they had few highways, they planted the on the shoulders to Kerp animals and people off. Typhoons are rare so they grow big and thick as do the thorns
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
. Miss Lily looks she is enjoying. That sketchbook looks really easy to tote. 5x5 in?
Jo - here the periodic hurricanes trim them back. In Hawaii, where they had few highways, they planted the on the shoulders to Kerp animals and people off. Typhoons are rare so they grow big and thick as do the thorns
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
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Jo, thanks! I'm glad I got to paint some of the cherry trees when I did. Most of them are already changing to green leaves. The season for them is so short. Hope you get back into the swing of sketching and creating.
Ai, I love when things are in bloom. I'll be watching for the irises next. Love the sketch with iris and the food. It doesn't look like she's eating an egg on rice. I'm picturing a huge slice of cake. lol Or maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part.
Fletch, maybe your flowers will bounce back and get really big. I love how bougainvillea looks.
I was down by the water in Bellport today. This bike belonged to a man who was sitting on a bench just beyond the railing. I intended to sketch him too, but by the time I figured out the bike parts, he was getting ready to leave.
10 - bicycle - ink and watercolor
Then I sat in the parking lot and faced uphill toward town to sketch.
11 - lighting - watercolors
12 - has holes (the sections of fence and railings on the building
13 - sidewalk
Ai, I love when things are in bloom. I'll be watching for the irises next. Love the sketch with iris and the food. It doesn't look like she's eating an egg on rice. I'm picturing a huge slice of cake. lol Or maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part.
Fletch, maybe your flowers will bounce back and get really big. I love how bougainvillea looks.
I was down by the water in Bellport today. This bike belonged to a man who was sitting on a bench just beyond the railing. I intended to sketch him too, but by the time I figured out the bike parts, he was getting ready to leave.
10 - bicycle - ink and watercolor
Then I sat in the parking lot and faced uphill toward town to sketch.
11 - lighting - watercolors
12 - has holes (the sections of fence and railings on the building
13 - sidewalk
AiArts
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All, Ned,Grapes : Thanks so much.
Fletch: Thanks... It is a mixed-media "Art Creation" sketchbook from Talens size 12 cm.X12 cm. ... yeah, it works with ink/pencil/and wc. I find it suit my art style and it is not expensive. I like it.
Joan: Thanks. Beautiful sketches. I find the angle that you did the gazebo very fasinating... are you on high floor looking out. You capture the majestic angle very well.
Fletch: Thanks... It is a mixed-media "Art Creation" sketchbook from Talens size 12 cm.X12 cm. ... yeah, it works with ink/pencil/and wc. I find it suit my art style and it is not expensive. I like it.
Joan: Thanks. Beautiful sketches. I find the angle that you did the gazebo very fasinating... are you on high floor looking out. You capture the majestic angle very well.
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Top
Bottom
Bottom
Joan T
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Ai, thanks. I was actually sitting downhill in the parking lot by the dock. I haven't figured out how to make something look like it is uphill or downhill. Mine always come out looking the same. I guess I should google how to do it. lol
Today I attended a town hall meeting which was very good. We sat near the front or else there would have been many more people. There were about 1,000 people in the audience.
14 - free space - watercolors and ink
Today I attended a town hall meeting which was very good. We sat near the front or else there would have been many more people. There were about 1,000 people in the audience.
14 - free space - watercolors and ink
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Sketches…Four three minute , one four minute
Has letters
Comes to a point
Face
Has #
Floor vent
Has letters
Comes to a point
Face
Has #
Floor vent
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Robin -- that colorful top/bottom sketch is great! Like your fun quick sketches too!
Joan -- great sketch at the town hall! After what happened trying to sketch at a baseball game, I think if I tried that I'd miss most of what was being said!!
I'm back home in California. Cheers!
Joan -- great sketch at the town hall! After what happened trying to sketch at a baseball game, I think if I tried that I'd miss most of what was being said!!
I'm back home in California. Cheers!
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Apologies to all. I have been popping in and out lurking as it were and missed commenting on some nice world.
Robin - Your sketches have always inspired. You were first artist I saw using value vice color now every time I read about the concept your art is what I picture in my mind. Most recently was reading an article on drawing from life with color pencil. Up popped “color is irrelevant if the value is right.”and thought of you. Have now added Charles Dickens gray to list of inks it investigate. Love the astronaut projector drawing! Irish Cream bottle from two perspectives is clever. Neat speed sketches I stopped trying those. I always cheat.
Joan - Love the shading on the cascading flower and steps sketch. And the purple flowers by blue barn. The pagoda in the road looks so inviting. Political rally seems like an unlikely sketch location. Nice job.
Ai - Have to confess I am so jealous of the fabulous cafes you have in Bangkok. The food and the atmosphere. We are inundated with chain stores all cookie cutter of each other. None have overstuffed leather armchairs like Merlin Café.
Ned - Welcome home.
Mentioned the article on drawing from life in May issue of Color magazine in response to Robin. Had to share this quote of portrait artist Gavin Glakas. It fits this forum perfect.
“For me, life drawing is the key to the kingdom. It’s the best possible way to practice and improve. Working from photos may give us opportunities to do finished works of art that we wouldn’t be able to do otherwise, but life drawing gives us the skills to build upon a photo rather than just trying to reproduce it. Plus, it is just so much more fun!”
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
Robin - Your sketches have always inspired. You were first artist I saw using value vice color now every time I read about the concept your art is what I picture in my mind. Most recently was reading an article on drawing from life with color pencil. Up popped “color is irrelevant if the value is right.”and thought of you. Have now added Charles Dickens gray to list of inks it investigate. Love the astronaut projector drawing! Irish Cream bottle from two perspectives is clever. Neat speed sketches I stopped trying those. I always cheat.
Joan - Love the shading on the cascading flower and steps sketch. And the purple flowers by blue barn. The pagoda in the road looks so inviting. Political rally seems like an unlikely sketch location. Nice job.
Ai - Have to confess I am so jealous of the fabulous cafes you have in Bangkok. The food and the atmosphere. We are inundated with chain stores all cookie cutter of each other. None have overstuffed leather armchairs like Merlin Café.
Ned - Welcome home.
Mentioned the article on drawing from life in May issue of Color magazine in response to Robin. Had to share this quote of portrait artist Gavin Glakas. It fits this forum perfect.
“For me, life drawing is the key to the kingdom. It’s the best possible way to practice and improve. Working from photos may give us opportunities to do finished works of art that we wouldn’t be able to do otherwise, but life drawing gives us the skills to build upon a photo rather than just trying to reproduce it. Plus, it is just so much more fun!”
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
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#1 Hot - coffee thermos - This is not graphite. After reading the article on drawing from life with color pencils, I had to try including the limited Zorn palette that was mentioned ( Black, white, yellow ochre and cad red [I substituted Scarlet Lake])
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
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Fletch -- When I'm traveling or looking on my phone I get lazy about commenting and just hit the "like" buttons... I like that quote. When I first joined scavenger hunts, my only goal was to "learn to draw", and this is sure a friendly and fun place to do that. There's always a list so when you want to sketch, you don't get "stuck" deciding what to sketch.... Nowadays, sometimes there is a particular thing I'm trying to improve, but usually it's to get a kind of meditative good feeling from sketching. Right now I don't have any "goals" with art, and I think that's okay for now!
Ooh I like those subtle colors. That really works. Nice smooth lines on that thermos!
Ooh I like those subtle colors. That really works. Nice smooth lines on that thermos!
