Scavenger Hunt from Life: #167: Aug 06 - Aug 18

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks so much. Happy Mother's Day! I'm glad you are able to get out to celebrate and sketch too. Your sausage puff looks delicious...love the decorative pattern on the top. The jars on the table look great with your hatching...and lovely flowers too. I hope the rest of the day is just as enjoyable.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thank you so much. I am quickly packing to AsiaLink Phuket Sketchwalk for Aug 14-17. I hope to have some sketches posted here. It is not easy, when I have a full-time job, family to take care, and my own art endeavor to balance. I am happy trying though...

Next were done in Holbein gouache, about 8*10 inch.

#8 veggies
#9 fruits ...oops I left out one plum..

 

[joe1It]

Ai ,Joan,formidable job.

1animal 2 water,3 Vehicle.4, 2 ruote

 

[AiArts]

Arrived at Phuket, for Asia Link Sketch Walk 2025. We got to sketch a bit in evening. The actual event will start tomorrow Aug 14-17.

#10 colorful ...Phuket old town

#11 relaxing...Phuket old town
#12 two wheels..motorcycles

#13 person ...in flight

 

[Jade]

The detail! Beautiful. So impressive Ai

I love seeing your cute little sketches pop up, Joe! Really good.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Wow, I've missed a lot.
joe1lt - love all your mini animals. Eyeore is always fun. Enjoyed your bean story. Enjoy the "heat". The bike, bottle and snoopy, car -- excellent.

Joan, thanks. Your sketch of the wicker is sooooo good.

Fletch, thanks. Good luck on the root canal. Hope you have good friendly dentists like mine.

Ai, happy belated Mothers Day. The sausage looks great. Cool lines on the condiment tray. The lines on the hydrangeas are lively and they look alive. Yummy veggies and fruit. The old town with cars and building is interesting and well done. Lines on the inflight are great, too.

Hi to all and thanks if I missed anyone.

I had my day off so I went to the park and then to a restaurant for some guacamole and a margarita. I did do an errand and pick up prescriptions. These are in the Ohuhu sketchbook with Ohuhu pens and watercolors.
Number 5 umbrella - awnings as subs..a new bike shop and awnings from a water splash area for kids
Number 6 chair and Number 7 flower (artificial) and another person for challenge.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, it is great that you are going to the AsiaLink Sketchwalk. I'm sure that will be a fun experience. Your plate of fruits and veggies looks so tempting right now. (I didn't have any lunch.) I like your sketch of the buildings in Phuket...so many windows and arches! I spy a sketch from the airplane....Yay!! Have a great time since I'm living vicariously through you right now.

Joe, who is the character riding the bike? Fun sketches of all the characters...and the water bottle.

Jo, thanks. Guac and a margarita sound tempting. You've got such nice uplifting colors in these sketches. It's great that you were able to get out to sketch. Love the bar scene.

My plein air group was down by Silly Lily, a marina yesterday. I've painted there a number of times...lots of yellow.
12 - umbrella - watercolors

 

[jmfletch]

Joan - Love how you did the wicker texture. Great detail on the fishing hut.

Ai - I hope your Mother’s Day was as beautiful as your art. The sausage puff looks so good. Nice pen work on the serving pieces and the hydrangeas. What color? I like the blue. The veggie plate is excellent.. love the colors. Also the colors in the Phuket old town pictures. Did you change your palette?

Joe - Nice pen work. Still Using the 3mm? Recognize Snoopy and Donald.

Jo - like how you are using the watercolors. Like told in every text or article on wc sketching or journaling,

Robin, Ned, Vivian, pine Cone and all the hunters out there

I need to get off my butt and create. I miss it but can make so many great excuses.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[AiArts]

Lovely work, Jo
All: thanks much.

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, thanks for the comment. It is soooo easy to make excuses and not get to sketching. Hope you get something done.

Ai, hope you are enjoying your sketch walk and the people you are with.

Tonight my sketch group met at Sayville's Rotary Park where a concert was being held. The Lazy Bunny Ukulele Band was performing. I sketched them last year when they performed. Instead of sketching the band I sketched some of the crowd. Just as I started a light drizzle started. There were only a few drops and I continued. The sprinkles changed to a very light rain and I continued sketching for as long as I could, but finally the drops were just keeping the paint too wet. You can see a lot of the raindrops on the page.
12 - something refreshing (music in the rain) - watercolors and ink

 

[Jo Castillo]

Joan, hi and thanks. The yellow Silly Lily place is fun and so colorful. What color do you put in the shadows for yellow? I always have a problem with that. Love the umbrella and life saver. Your Ukulele band in the rain is fun. What a great scene including the rain.

Fletch, you are forgiven for not sketching. Hope you find the time soon.

Ai, thanks and hi. Hope you trip is super fine!!

We don't have much tomorrow so maybe I can play in the pastels. Ankle is still sore and PT didn't help today, over did I think. I like to stand for pastel painting. Hmm.

 

[AiArts]

Jade& &Jo & Joe1 & Joan& Fletch: Thanks so much. I'm still using same palette but I may be more confused of new surrounding...

Joan: Amazing outdoor sketch. I am learning how you did shadows. I was awestruck at Phuket

Sanlynn: Thanks.

#14 umbrella...a tiny one for the lady...done in pencil+wc+ white gouache

 

[Joan T]

Jo, thanks. I added a little purple with a touch of the yellow for the shadow. I'm never sure what to use on yellow so that it doesn't turn greenish. Our sketch group usually tries to sketch at two concerts in the summer since this park's schedule coincides with the evening we meet. I think this is the third time we've been rained on, although the rain was much lighter than it was once in the past. We were drenched that time. lol Most of the group didn't show last night, but 4 of us braved the weather.

Ai, what a colorful street scene you found. It looks like you found a nice way to balance your art materials as you worked. Can't wait to see more of the area and photos of the event.

 

[AiArts]

#15 refreshing ...my sketch stop at Chubcheeva Cafe, in Phuket's old town.. WC+Pencil in a double page spread of 7*9 inch paper..

#16 sub. a landscape with a nocturne....more night sketch of old building of intersection of Debuk Road and Yaowaraj Road, directwatercolor

 

[Jade]

I love both of these Ai, and particularly the colours in the first one. I feel like I'm back in Thailand

 

[AiArts]

Jade: Thank you

 

[Joan T]

Ai, the one of the cafe and the street is wonderful! Oh...and a nocturnal sketch too. Bravo! That is the nice thing about going on a sketch trip with other people. You have the opportunity to go out at night and sketch which you probably (If you're like me) wouldn't do if you were by yourself. Nocturns are magical! Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

14 - has 2 wheels - marker

15 - something that rolls (the rolling gantry at the marina that lifts up the boats) - watercolors and ink

 

[Pine Cone]

Joan — Thanks much for a fun list I meant to do better. I’ll try to post a sketch below.
Gorgeous sunflower scene, cheering-up the truck, and reminding it of the beauty of rust.
Every piece has a different flavor, a special tone, a story to tell. Love them all

Jade — *Your sketches are wonderful, all of them.* You have a great talent for faces, and you crave learning. I’m so glad you’re sticking with us, and thank you for the links and names, and for your inspiring work!!! Throw a toy for Bob, from me

JoC — Lovely, inspiring sketches. As I continue trying to re-learn, you are inspiring me, as you are so versatile, adapting, using different methods, and different tools… Thank you so much for posting all these sketches, like the one from the dentist office, and all the rest

Ai — Happy belated Mothers’ Day Fantastic car - I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around how you did it Same goes for your unique and lovely sketch of a boat whose best days are lost to the waters, within view of a temple of shining hope All your sketches are beautiful, and it’s so fun to look at them with the photos, and see you engrossed in creating, and smiling with your sketches I’ve been noticing that you have a special talent with the Holbein gouache, zowie!!!

Robin — Luv your homestyle colors, and items - fun and lovely and free - I’m with Joe on the 3D pepper half

Ned — Good to hear from you! Glad you’re back to Washington safe and sound. I’m looking forward to seeing your sketches again. I’ve missed your work

Joe1lt — Awwwww Eeyore!!! and my other-other-other BFsF Donald + Snoopy I went back to the pond with the ducks again to try to find Donald, and searched high and low, and even asked a nice lady there if she knew which one might be Donald… no luck, but I’ll check back
It’s so good to hear from you again and see your excellent sketches with their freedom and soulful expressions. They have truly captured my heart and ignited my imagination. Also, thank you for reminding me of peaceful, non-violent caring. And beans!!!

Fletch — I miss your sketches, but you need rest and relaxation too… it’s all good, and please stay in touch

 

[Pine Cone]

1 - “chair/seat/bench” - flat(ish) rock

This rock is one of *many* rocks that I’ve sat on to eat, or just to watch the world go by.

— Pentel mechanical pencil (0.5)

— pocket sketchbook by Daler Rowney (from WalMart)
— (3.5” x 5.5”) (89mm x 140mm)

— freehand

TL;DR (too long, don’t read)

It’s still very early in my Re-Learning to Draw Plan. For Phase 2, I’m trying to draw single objects, or very small areas that aren’t too complicated, but that aren’t necessarily just lines and ellipses.

And yet, it feels a bit overwhelming. I feel like I’ve lost so much. But it isn’t true, because as you guys (and other kind people) have taught me over and over again, creating anything, however humble, is a journey, and the journey is continuing, so nothing is lost. Nothing ever was.

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I can’t believe what this rock has been through. I started to try to include some detail, and realized it was impossible. So I gave up part-way through on adding more detail, so the sketch is uneven. And “front to back” looks like “top to bottom” lol

But it made me think. Do you guys remember my indecipherable pond sketch where I made label “notes” for fun, and added duck emojis???

Well what if I think of every sketch in my Re-Learning to Draw Program as a bunch of “notes” that could be used later (or not) to do another sketch or even a drawing or painting. I think Ai said something like that, and made me think about the possibilities.

So this is my 2nd official ***Notes to Self Sketch***. It feels fun.

And this is the rock, but from different angles, on a different day.

 

[Jade]

Aw PineCone - your posts are always so heartwarming, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I do love learning. Isn't it strange how we can meet on the internet and feel more understood than people in our lives that have known us decades? Bobs is on my lap having a stroke so I told him PineCone was asking for him and he miaowed back!

I really like the style of your rock drawing .. you captured detail without getting bogged down and there's something about the flowing grass you got down to a tee. I'm surprised when I'm drawing mouses tails (! ) or grass, how hard that can be.

I think adding notes could be a good learning tool. I'm glad you're back to it. I'm mostly over on my Drawing Practice thread with my drawing but love coming back to this little nook of kind, creative people.