Scavenger Hunt from Life #170: Sep 11 - Sep 23

[Jo Castillo]

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/page-10

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 12 days, with the next hunt starting on the 12th 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 #170: Sep 11 - Sep 23

allergy causing
butter dish
childhood
double
empty container
footwear
garlic
hammer
instrument
jagged
key
light
mushroom
nozzle
open book
plastic
quartz
red
solid
turnip (vegetable)
untidy
vacuum
white
x-acto knife
yogurt
zesty

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Thanks for the list.

A still-life in OP, about 10*12 inch of a back page of an old sketch ...about 1 hour in total

#1 red -- a bell pepper
#2 childhood -- a story book
#3 solid -- a mortar
#4 vegetable. -- a purple eggplant

 

[Jade]

Lovely Ai. I particularly like the pepper and chilli.

 

[Pine Cone]

JoC — Thanks for a fun list I hope to participate

Ai — Beautiful still life…. It’s inspiring to see how well you do with various different art supplies. They each have their own characteristics, and you seem to have a talent for bringing out the best of what your different art supplies offer.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, what a great, colorful still life. You do so well with the oil pastels!! I love the vibrancy of the veggies and the book cover with the dark background you included.

 

[Joan T]

My Tuesday night sketch group is participating in a show on Sunday. Each year we do some kind of art project. This year we are doing LARGE plaster of Paris replicas of ordinary things. I am doing a Tic Tac box. Someone did a large toothpaste tube, another a giant hair spray can, a large tuna fish can, a box of pancake mix...etc. I am actually doing mine from life, so I'm counting it as one of the items in this hunt. I'm not finished yet, but I need to post it now before I forget. I took measurements of the tic tac box and I think I made it 10x larger. It is actually nearly 24 inches tall and 12 inches wide. I have the actual tic tac box posed in front of it so you can see the scale. It is painted on all 4 sides. I have a lot of work left to do on it tonight and tomorrow.

1 - half-empty container of tic tac - cardboard, plaster of Paris, gauze, and acrylic paints

 

[AiArts]

Jade, PineCone, and Joan: Thanks so much.

Joan: Wowza on that giant Tic-Tac. Super interesting and makes me a big smile. Could you pls. tell us more of the paper you use, was it the brownbox that you directly painted on? and What type of the paint was it. You got the Tic Tac pebbles so well done.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, we measured and calculated the size each one would have to be. Then we found cardboard and pieced it together to get the size we needed. Each of us made a box or cylinder that was in proportion to what we were making. I was lucky that I didn't have to do too much piecing together. We covered the cardboard boxes with strips of gauze dipped in plaster of Paris. It was a real mess working with it because it hardened too quickly. My box has a lot of lumps, but I decided there was no way I could smooth it out in the time I had. Then I painted the whole thing with white acrylic paint (leftover from my closets) and we are using acrylic paints to do the designs. We were painting them the other night outside and could barely see once the sun went down. It has been fun to work on, but we really should have allotted more time to get it done. We've been working on each of them like crazy.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, look at you starting off in wonderful color. Beautiful veggies and book (Looks like little red riding hood on the cover). Great shape on the mortar. Mmmm good.

Hi Jade and Pine Cone.

Wow! Joan. Amazing Tic Tac container. You did a super job. Fun group activity. You were resourceful in your container!! Love it.

 

[Pine Cone]

1 - “double”…..
…..two sprigs of a plant, one with a bud, the other with an open flower

NOTE: Unfinished due to rain

— non-virtual sketch

— Pentel mechanical pencil (0.5)
— pocket sketchbook by Daler Rowney (from WalMart)
— (3.5” x 5.5”) (89mm x 140mm)

— freehand

Still struggling in Phase 2 of my Re-Learning to Draw Plan. I mentioned a day or two ago that I was overwhelmed as I tried to sketch a single plant. It was thick with leaves and flowers and about a meter (yard) tall and half a meter wide. I wasn’t able to sketch the whole plant, so I started to sketch just two separate sprigs.

Before I had sketched much, a few raindrops fell, and clouds were darkening. So to protect my sketchbook and stuff, I headed back to my car without finishing these two bits, but it was still fun

P.S. Sorry it took so long to take a pic, and post this…..

 

[Jade]

Hi all

Joan - LOVE Your tictacs! So clever.

PineCone - I like this. I think there's something about breaking things down to smaller parts and really focussing in. Glad you had fun.

 

[Pine Cone]

Joan — Zowie, your tictac replica is sooooo cool LOVE it, and LOVE the texture. AND the gorgeous teal shades. AND the whole idea. AND the yummy “pebbles” (quoting Ai). Fantastic piece in every way I hope you can post pics of the show ???

JoC — Sending good vibes

Jade — Thanks so much and hugs to Bob too

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks for the behind the scene techniques... so well done.

PineCone: Lovely delicate double.

 

[Joan T]

Jo, thanks. I was up working on the tic-tac container until 11:30 last night. It is so big and I can only work on one part at a time and wait for that to dry before rolling it over. lol I've never worked with something 3-D before. lol

Pine Cone, focusing on a small part is a good idea. Too bad the weather didn't cooperate. Hopefully I will remember to take my phone on Sunday and will take some photos. Here are a few of the other artists working lately. It was hard to take too many photos because my hands were always a mess from paint or plaster. One woman did a tuna fish can and made a Charlie Tuna to go with it.