Scavenger Hunt from Life - #168 - August 18 - 30

[AiArts]

#1B -- related to tea or coffee...a moka pot at neighborhood foodshop...pencil+wc ..
.oops a bit wonky...

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, oooh, love the red pot and your photos.

I sketched on my footstool in the Conda sketchbook with Micron 03.
Number 1, handheld
Number 2 stack of unrelated items - book, game and blood pressure cuff
Number 3 clip - off a clothes hanger used for chips

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Thanks. Wonderful poem...did you wrote it, so cool.

Joan: Thanks. Yeah, for some reason, I seemed to overscroll the cars with sound one. Fantastic traffic scene.

Today I went plein aire solo... drove about 45 minutes one way (in a quiet country road) to this location, where the delta river (ThaJeen river) meets up with the gulf of Thailand... which is on the top-left of the scene.

#5 makes a sound ... boats, ... done with pencil + wc in a double page spread of A4 Talens ArtCreation sketchbook.... about 1.5 hour

A better view of the Gulf of Thailand is shown below:

 

[joe1It]

Thanks Robin.
Joan ,Jo ,Ai,formidable job , Jo,Ai,super poem and ohoto

3worn
4toy,little peluche , of Buzz, from toys toy, In the supermarket years ago with shopping points and 5 euros.

A5,pen,

 

[AiArts]

#1C -- related to tea ...ice matcha+ white choc flappe, ...done with color pencil

 

[Joan T]

Ai, love your colorful coffee pot! That will perk up your morning. Super sketch of the boats surrounded by the rickety-looking dock. Not so sure I would want to walk on that. lol Your drink looks great!

Jo, great to see some sketches from you. Nice pile of assorted unrelated objects. Good hand with the remote. I'll bet the clip comes in handy.

Joe, cute toy sketch with fun hatching.

 

[Robin Gillis]

1 sound
2. Language
3 comic
4 coffee related

 

[jmfletch]

Joan - Love Tudor. Well use to love them. Not real popular down here so do not get to see them. Usually impressed with your skin tones but this poor day looks ill. Love all the wv sketches: wallet, phone, coffee press. Excellent digi!!

Ai - great job on the fan. Funny just the other day I was laying in bed looking at the ceiling fan trying to imagine how to capture the movement. You captured it! Spending a lot of time looking up? Nice line work on the ceiling lamps Moka pot is an attention getter with great colors and unusual perspective. Nice wc of boats and bay. Now color pencil. Will watch for an oil printing next. Is there any media you have not mastered?

Joe - super job on the cars!. Nice work on Buzz!

Jo - Love that poem and your sketches of all the doohickies.

Robin - Saw your icon and was waiting for your great pen work so the first 2 threw me. Love the cartoon and continuous line grinder.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch!

 

[jmfletch]

#4 - related to coffee Drew direct with fountain pen. Got carried away with the contour hatching. Tried to add highlights with a POSCA white pen . Lots of learning here.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[Robin Gillis]

Joan - the cars/sound watercolor is full to the brim with detail and atmosphere....live the way the hanging signals get smaller and the cars parked and other jostling for passage. Wonderful

JoC - ahhhh, that poem is great.....I do hate dusting.....fun sketches..the remote fits nicely looks lkinda tentative...like you are deciding what to watch ;>) Nifty repurposed chip bag ... clear straight forward rendering too...that stack of 3 looks well behaved..

Ai - glorious coffeepot....how did you get those tiny line effects? put a ruler against wet paint and lift? Super boat sketch. A riot of colorful cargo. I envy you getting to spend more than a hr in "the zone". Ahh, ice matcha....haven't tried that one yet.....cozy portrayal....

Joe1 - happy, uplifting sketch of the Buzz.

Fletch - WOW, I admire the coffee maker fountain pen sketch adventure....hefty, intense and strong.....ssurprising departure from the careful familiar approach which we all are reluctant to leave....nice

 

[Joan T]

Robin, fun sketches with your green ink. You did the comic so well! Nice work on the Japanese letters and the box. Thanks so much for your comment on the town scene.

Fletch, thanks. I just couldn't get flesh tones on poor Pat's face...not even close. lol Good hatching on your coffee maker. I'm surprised the white Posca didn't show up better.

Today I sketched at the Sagtikos Manor's walled garden. They had a peacock fountain in the middle of the garden, but absolutely no shade anywhere. Luckily I had an art umbrella in my trunk so I went back to get it so I wouldn't fry. lol
11 - birds - watercolors

 

[AiArts]

Robin: Thanks. Love your dancing lines and colors, and humors it brought me... The comic reminds of me as the big mama of the house yelling to my young kids of their mess...lol. For the tiny dashed line on the red moka pot, it was an accident, as this is a thin (not-so-good) watercolor paper, so the previous page sketched the ceiling fan with a ball-point pen, that must have caused the "straight line scratches" to the next page. It later showed in the moka pot that I have done. I even did not notice...Thanks to you.

Joan: Thanks. What a gorgeous peacock statute and marvelous green landscape.

Fletch: Thanks. Yeah, the ceiling fan was tough on me too.. I had to try it for a few times, and including using my phone to capture the still-image of it, to study how the circular motion look like from my table I had sat. Great job on the coffee brew pot.

Joe1, Jade, and all: Thanks.

 

[AiArts]

#6 plant ... Attempted to make my sketch like Batman Joker's face ( half- half ) style...I need more tree sketch practice with pencil. ... Today a few of my BangkokSketchers friends and I were invited to join a tree sketch session of KITNB's architect students at Chulalongkorn University Centennial Park. We brought our sketchbooks to share our sketcher's approach with them. There are a tons of trees there but I wish I had more time to be there. Lol... I sketch two tiny figures at the bottom of the tree too, can you tell that one was playing a guitar...haha.... done in one page of A4 size ArtCreation sketchbook.

 

[AiArts]

Joe1: I love the super cute Toy story figure, and the worn is pretty good too.

Jade: Thank you.

 

[jmfletch]

Joan - Love the shading and implied details. Pretty painting of a pretty garden.

Ai - The half and half idea is really cool. Am also fascinated by the very modern skyline behind the tree and the contrast with the beautiful ancient temples you often paint. Here in SW Florida there is very little that predates.WWII so almost everything is modern. Just our town where we have lived 24 years has grown so much. Many greenway areas are one strip malls. Appreciate the beauty you portray from Thailand.

Robin, Joan and Ai, tha nks fir very kind supportive words.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[AiArts]

Fletch: Thanks so much for kind support, the orange bricks on bottom right are new, they are orange clay mold into modern brick shape. If I go there again, I will take a closer photo of the park. Believe it or not, it was my first time there at that central part of city of Bangkok. I should go there more often.

 

[jmfletch]

#5 related to electricity - wall outlet. Drawn direct in ink. Sketched on Hunt List from memory to see the idea than today drew it direct in ink in last page of that pocket sketchbook now retired.

Ai - Now looking forward to more paintings of Centennial Park. And I did see the guy playing guitar.

Keep sketching and listening
Fletch

 

[Joan T]

Ai, it is interesting to see the tree done in two different ways. I like that the architecture students were out sketching in the park. That's such good practice for them.

Fletch, thanks. Good job on the wall outlet. So nice you did it twice. lol

12 - clip - colored ink pen

 

[Shane]

Ai - wow you are a prolific sketcher, your work is very expressive and has a nice vibe.

Robin - Great command of colour and perspective in your watercolour works.

Joe - nice drawings.

Fletch - Good use of line.

Robin - Ooh some lovely shading.

Joe - cool sketches mate.

Not sure if this complies but there are 21) plants, I did some locational sketches along the river in Brisbane where I live last Saturday while my teenage daughter was rehearsing for a recital of the song "I still call Australia home" for a sister of mercy's (nun) 100th birthday celebration. I went for a very long walk, did some sketching and still made it to see the mayor give the sister the "key to the city" and my daughters choir sing the beautiful song. Then we had lunch with one of her friends, Korean chicken wings, salad and rice. A cracker of a day.

 

[Pine Cone]

Shane — Welcome, and wow! Love your pen lines on both items, and have been appreciating their intricacies Also like the choice of rich black ink on the gray-toned paper. Hope your vaca is super fun.
Just caught your unique, superb location sketches above….. excellent work - I’ll be enjoying these, and studying them in the coming days

Fletch — What a superb, incredible trackball mouse, can’t say enough. Unbelievably real. When it first appeared on my screen I instinctively reached for it. Fantastic work from our very own Graphite Master I’ve been coming back to study it, but just get lost in the shape and ***volume*** and depth and on and on….. Ditto on your paperclip… I lost mine, may I borrow this one
The coffee gizmo sketch has just enough contrast to be “you”, but at the same time it reminded of a conversation we had a long time ago about both of us having lots of trouble getting our white pens to work… what is it about white ink that is so stubborn for us ???
Nice sketch of the outlets - good job using up your pocket sketchbook Will you get another like it?

Ai — Thanks so much! Lovely, graceful lines and colors while holding your cell phone Wow, you did great with the difficult ceiling fan sketches, and the feel of motion as well as the ceiling lamps - you did a great job with all of them!
LOVE the moka pot, wow !!!
And your haunting sketch of the river delta is wonderful, and the drink looks special Your half-half idea is really instructive, showing the differences in how to use different tools

Joan — I agree about the dragonflies and hummingbirds… been awhile since I saw a hummingbird We had a honeysuckle garden growing up the back wall when I was a kid, so we saw a lot of them. And oddly enough, I saw a lot of them in the *high* mountains in various Western states (hiking). It always surprised me that those tiny, delicate little birds could survive in what could be a very harsh, high-elevation environment, with short summers. Nature is amazing everywhere we look!!!
Seeing your distinctive houses with their warm tones, surrounded by lush plants under a lovely blue sky, it reminds me of movies set in the U.K. for some reason. (Don’t know why.)
As so often happens, it feels like you caught a mood, a moment, a slice of real life, with your freckled sketch, and the cool items on their table.
Oh, I love all your colored fountain pen sketches, with their artsy, melty colors - super fun work - and also the girl chilling at Toyota, and the nuanced sketch of the walled garden and its unusual fountain !

Joan and Joe1lt — I think I can honestly say I’ve never been frightened by any of the sketches in all these years of SH events….. until now….. And twice, on the same page Joe1lt’s sketch of a bunch of cars, oh dear the sketches at all angles are fantastic, with super lines and dimension and angles, which is what makes them so real, and ***they’re all about to crash*** EEEK and then I scroll down, and there is Joan’s great sketch of cars, with great details bringing the scene to life, and cars going both directions, and Joan is apparently standing ***in the street*** during rush hour……

Joe1lt — Also, fun fun fun sketch at the beach, and cool car and boat in those two sketches You’re a daring artist with all the angles you boldly sketch. It inspires me to try harder to re-learn a little more with each try !
And Buzz Lightyear, living my dream All your action figures are so cool

JoC — Thanks for your encouraging words ! And for that poem - fun and true - my new fav poem Really nice set of sketches, separately and together (with a sense of belonging, maybe, or symmetry) !

Robin - Thanks much ! It was a fun day I love the Zen feel of your melty sketches, and smiled at your fun cartoon and sketch.