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

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks, all.

Ned, mmmm love the sketch of the husker. I like the texture on the towel. Nice..... Good story. You may keep your oysters to eat, however. Ha.

Ai, good find for white. The textbook is good. Bet the subject is difficult.

Jade, hey. My chair and ottoman are one of my favorite sketching spots. I love plein air painting and now I'm mostly sketching I like that, too. As it cools off here I will do more.

Joan, Your sketch of the garlic, etc., is amazing. Love it! Oh, I'm looking forward to your trip!! We will get to tag along, right? Uuuuu, raw clams. Never had those! I did try oysters, not my thing. The worst sea creature I tried raw was urchins. They are like white bread soaked in iodine. I also tried Picoroco in Chile, they put the whole rock in the soup. I thought it was there to keep the soup warm. When I finished my soup our friend said you didn't try this and she pulled the picoroco out of the rock. It looked so slimy I just couldn't ..... https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/picoroco-barnacles
You remember I grew up in New Mexico, landlocked. I had eaten trout. We had salmon patties made from canned salmon or canned tuna on Fridays.

Fletch, hi and thanks.

Pine Cone, yep, it is interesting to me that the wrinkles seem to show more in photos than in scans. At least in my world. The dino combo is wonderful. Clever find for sketching! It is so good to have fun. Thanks for the history lesson. No Sinclair stations around here that I know of. I'm smiling now, will give the info to my great grand that loves dinosaurs, too.

 

[Jade]

Joan - your garlic is fab! Love the green beans and lemon for colour too.

PineCone - your Dino and your photos
.. So cute! I have some dinosaur stickers for scrapbooking lol.

Jo - hehe.. it's good you mix it up. I'm not plein airing tho but being in the UK and autumn I'm happy with that lol. Ohh Picoroco.. Not a fan of oysters either!

 

[Joan T]

Pine Cone, I love that you had the opportunity to sketch Dino. What fun! We don't have any Sinclair stations around, so I haven't seen any dinosaurs out in the grass. Thanks for the information about how the Dino campaign got started. I wasn't aware of the reason, but it makes sense. Thinking about the paper you were using. I think when you are painting in humid condition from the inside of the car, the paper absorbs some of the moisture so it wrinkles even more, especially thin sketch paper.

Jo, thanks. I followed your link to see what picoroco was. I don't know if I would try that. I laughed that it was in the bottom of the soup. People do eat odd things. Sometimes I wonder what possessed people to start eating lobsters. lol I will try my best to keep you guys in the loop while we are gone. I can usually post from our apartment. I'm never sure if I will be able to post on my blog...that's always iffy.

Jade, thanks. I tried to find things that had a little more color. Everything seemed to be so light toned.

 

[Jade]

I'll add today's sketch for a (tenuous) #3 light!

 

[joe1It]

thanks for new list.
you all did an amazing job
1 childhood - Donald
2 key
3 allergy causing - Flower drawn on the tablecloth.
4 plastic - Paper cup and Coaster
5turnip (vegetable)- caffè - moka , or chair/table


pen on a5

 

[Jade]

thanks for new list.
you all did an amazing job
1 childhood - Donald
2 key
3 allergy causing - Flower drawn on the tablecloth.
4 plastic - Paper cup and Coaster
5turnip (vegetable)- caffè - moka , or chair/table


pen on a5

They're all great sketches Joe and I always like seeing your Donald ducks! Hope you're doing ok x

 

[Enyaw]

Excellent Joe

 

[Robin Gillis]

Wow…..i got alot to read and comment on…..so nice, it is as Yoda would say
Meanwhile here is my humble and offerings done this am at the tire olace
1 double -two stuffed chairs
2 empty container- cozy swoop chair
3 light ceiling
4 plastic-endtable with oval holes
5 white round table
6solid walls

 

[NedL]

Ai -- like your book sketches and touch of color on the "fuzzy set engineering" text. I remember in the early 90's there was a package for "fuzzy math" from NASA that I installed on a sparc 20 and played around with. I can't remember much about it now

Joan -- it's always fun to see the transition when you add watercolor to a continuous line sketch. Thanks for posting both!

Jo -- haha last night when I was about to go to sleep I saw your comments to Joan about the clams and was cracking up. I've tried raw clams a couple times but prefer oysters. I don't dislike them that way, but I like them better steamed. I'm with you on the urchins though. Yesterday I had some pickled herring my daughter got me from a Norwegian grocery store in the nearby town of Poulsbo. Those are not cooked and they were really excellent. I'm thinking of driving over there to get some more before I head back to California. Maybe I can sketch the empty container.

Pine Cone -- The dino is fun! I've seen Sinclair on my travels but I don't think we have them out West. Fun to see the history!

Jade -- handsome kitty! Nice texture in the coat.

Fletch -- thanks! I will get it out and use it. I think it's still in my suitcase packed back in June!

Joe1 -- great perspective on the table and chairs, well done! I always like to see Donald and good espresso maker too!

Robin -- hi! I like the view inside the tire place. Great thing to do while waiting. Good job trying a tough continuous line drawing!

I'll be back later this evening or tomorrow with a sketch from today.

 

[NedL]

#4 double. 2nd base at the little league diamond in the park

 

[Jo Castillo]

Jade, I think art is so personal. It is great to do it any way that makes you happy. For me it is always from life! I'm smiling now..... Great job on the "light" kitty.

Joan, yes, we always wonder how people first ate crawly mushy things. Ha.

joe1lt, awww, love Donald. The ellipses are so good. I like your coffee maker and your table and chairs. Well done!!

Hi Enyaw! Welcome.

Robin, hey there. Ohhhh, continuoous line. Wonderful!! I love all the stuff and textures and shading in the waiting room. (You remind me to check, I think we need new tires.)

Ned, thanks. More smiles on your comments! I have lots of "fish" stories. Thanks for the 2nd base from the park. Great texture and dirt! I do miss the games. Pro ball doesn't do a thing for me.

I sketched a couple of small items at Gene's PT. The lights on the crazy ceiling all open wiring, a/c and such.Number 2 in the Conda Sketchpad with Ohuhu .5. Number 3, double - a couple of water bottles on the floor.

 

[Jade]

My newest Wednesday Adams from the Adams family for #4 childhood

 

[Joan T]

Jade, nice kitty sketch and the one of Wednesday. Good shading.

Joe, thanks for sharing some new sketches of Donald. They always make me smile. Nice sketch of the table and chair...and the coffee pot too.

Robin, so nice of the tire place to have such comfy looking furniture for you to sketch. Nice! Fun to see your continuous line sketch.

Enyaw, welcome. I hope you will be joining us with sketches.

Ned, thanks for your comments. I like clams raw, steamed, or baked. I can remember visiting a friend of my father's one summer and he took us out clamming. He would dig for them with his feet and then disappear to go down under the water to get them. I was just a small kid, so my job was to float in the inner tube holding the bucket that he was using to hold the clams. Only my oldest sister was tall enough to dig for them with him. Ha, ha! I love using second base for the "double" item. Great thinking!!

Jo, it is great that you haven't run out of things to sketch at PT yet. Ceilings like that are always fun...but I get lost looking up. lol

My sketch group had a model last night. I swear Hector (the model) is the most dapper dresser. He came with several different changes of clothes, one more fun than the last.
12 - footware - neocolors and graphite (I'm including the whole sketch of him too.)






13 - double sketches of Hector - neocolors and graphite

 

[Jo Castillo]

Jade you captured a good likeness of the Adam's gal.

Joan, what fun to have a dapper model. You did a great job. Love the footwear and double.

 

[NedL]

Jo -- neat different cylinders on that ceiling. This will sound silly but I stared for a long time at the squiggles you used to make the surface the water jugs are sitting on. It's perfect in its way.

Jade -- nice job on Wednesday Adams. At college baseball, if the opponent's pitcher is tall and gangling (and a lot of them are!) my friend and I always call them "Lurch"...

Joan -- you make the neocolors look great! I think you caught the attitude too!

I'm here because I remembered Joan made a comment about white pens... I found the comment: it was a signo UM-153. This morning I tried white gouache over a dry dark color, and it was sort of ok if I used a couple layers but it picked up pigment from underneath as it dried and I don't have a brush with a fine enough point. So this afternoon I'm going to head over to get some more herring and see if the art store has that pen... I need white letters on a dark background for my next hunt sketch! If they don't have the pen they'll probably have a #2 or smaller brush....

 

[Joan T]

Jo, thanks. Hector has posed for us before and it is always fun to wait and see what he will be wearing. lol

Ned, a few of my fellow sketchers and I were talking the other day about how the Signo white pen isn't covering the dark colors as well any more. The have also been clogging. I wonder if they changed the formula. A number of people I know are using white Posca markers now.

 

[NedL]

Joan -- thanks that's good to know! They didn't have the UM-153. They had one that says "Signo Broad" on the clip and "Gel Impact 1.0 White UPC" on the side. It was a bit too wide for what I was trying to do, and it definitely was a bit fussy to get it to flow smoothly. I went over the letters twice and the "GAFFELBITER" looked better before I tried to "whiten" it with the 2nd pass. I also got a cool new 2/0 brush that I didn't try to use... I need to figure out how to travel with it without messing up the tip. At home I have some clear plastic tubes that fit over the end, but I'll have to figure something else out here.

This herring comes in two flavors, dill and sherry. This one was dill, and today I bought the sherry flavor to try. I'm going to stock up on a few before I go back to California. All the writing on the can is Norwegian, and the can is just slightly bigger than an anchovy can. So the sketch is bigger than life.

#5 empty container of gaffelbiter, Strathmore Mixed Media Visual Journal -- yay!