Scavenger Hunt from Life #171: Sep 23 - Oct 05

[NedL]

Ai -- that space duck is pretty funny. Great sketch of it. The glass pieces are neat, and your sketches catch those luminous colors!

Fletch -- that's neat that you remember it being called a Stillson. The article I found said they were known as "stillsons" for a long time, even after other companies starting making them. Then "pipe wrench" eventually took over, which is all I ever knew. I was admiring the colors in Joan's "Andrew Family Farm" and then she mentioned using layers. I haven't really tried layers yet, which might be why the visual journal seems to work okay for me. Sometimes I put a darker color within a lighter one, but not a lot. I have noticed that if it gets too wet it curls, but it seems to flatten again after the book has been closed for a while.

Jade -- I like your colored pencil bird! Thanks for your nice comment!

Vivien -- I'm glad to see your sketches even if they were from the last hunt! Nice lines on the milk bottle. Rain due here in the Pacific Northwest of the US tomorrow night, then on and off all week.

Pine Cone -- That part of the clouds looks great. You caught the part that caught your notice! I think that's an important part of what makes sketches "ours". I get frustrated by clouds too... like animals they move and I'm too slow to draw them. Sometimes the light on things changes too... and all the shadows change!

Joan -- great Oyster Bay sketches. I like the colors in the one with the canon. Also wow on the background trees behind the house. The "bait for sale" made me chuckle. My kind of place.

I was out fishing today in my little boat and am pretty tired now. Don't think I'm going to try to sketch this evening.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, again, the concert must have gone well. Happy for you. Your space duck is so cute and well done. Fun to see. How nice you got to visit a glass factory. So interesting how it works, the heat and fast turning .. exciting to watch. Beautiful sketches.

Jade a big smile for the birdie.

Fletch, hi there.

Vivien, mmmm, nice sketches. Book looks like a good mystery. The milk bottle has great ellipses. Whoot!!

Pine Cone, great clouds, so hard to capture as they move so quickly. I like your hatching to show the interesting shapes. Applause!!

Joan, good luck with the time change. I always hate it. At least the phones and computers change themselves now and we don't have to think to set the clocks! Your bait shope sketch is marvelous as always. I like the sloping steps, trees, cart and back fence and hedge. Wow! Fun art table for the sketcher. You tell such great stories in your work.

Ned, the Stillson story is a good one. Look forward to your fishing sketches. We did go to the game. Weather was perfect if you were in the shade and we were. Texas was ahead 8-2 at the end of the 7th when we left. Hook 'em Horns. Probably the only game we will go to. So hard to park and walk to the Disch field in Austin and so many games at night now. So we had to go and enjoy... Long day, though, as you know. (Sorry for the rest of you to write this here. Too lazy for another message. Also you know why I didn't sketch today. Ha.)

 

[AiArts]

#5 structure ...I went to an art exhibit, in center of Bangkok....A short walk from the exhibit, lies one of tourist popular spots aka the Giant Swing of Bangkok...They stopped using it as a true swing (Hinduism spiritual ceremony) about 90 years ago (1935) due to safety concern... Just imagine people were on a super tall swing ancient years ago before modern bungie jump was popular....done in pencil + wc, about 20 minutes.

 

[Joan T]

Ned, thanks. The bait shop caught my attention with its signs. I wanted to check out the view down the driveway where the actual bait shop must have been located, but it would have meant sitting in the direct sun with no shade so I opted to stay in the shade of a building across the street.

Jo, when I came back into the center of town and saw Melanie standing and sketching by the cannon I knew I had to sketch her. She was doing a really large sketch of several of the storefronts on the street, so I knew she would be there for a while.

Ai, that swing looks scary...imagine how far up you would swing!!! What an interesting idea. You made it all look better than IRL. Thanks for sharing another of the interesting things from your culture.

12 - part of my breakfast - white colored pencil, Posca markers, black paper

 

[jmfletch]

Vivian - The very first thing I noticed was that your vertical lines were vertical! When I draw long verticals the always seem to lean a little. Nice work, (for this hunt key is useful and book a simple firm.)

Pine Cone - Your hatching is superb! Excellent cloud study. Love the narrative insights too.

Ai - Glass works are beautiful as are your renderings. When I saw building I hoped to see another of your country’s beautiful temples. Thank you. Your paintings let many of us, who will never get there, share in the beauty of Thailand

Joan - Oyster Bay painting is so well done. Another one I saved to study. Being honest when I saw the bait signs pointing around back all I could think of is what do they well in the store? . Canon has to be a very unique easel. I could never paint frying eggs; at speed I work the would be crispy and the pan burnt. Nice work.

Ned - I found one layer in visual journal was about it. (Two if I did not use a lot of water) After that it would starts pilling.

Jo - Best to Gene.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch

 

[AiArts]

Jo, Joan, Fletch, Jade: Thank you so much.

Joan: What a lovely egg breakfast. in Posca pens and dark ground. Very interesting.

All: Here are a few photos of ancient Giant Swing's ceremony of Thailand ... Pls. scroll down to the bottom to see them. They stopped that ceremony years before I was born.

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, lol I did worry about the eggs burning so I used a white colored pencil that I could sketch with quickly...did the pan before the eggs went in.

Ai, thanks for the link to the giant swing ceremony. I don't think I would even want to sit on it. lol

 

[Jade]

That swing is huge Ai!

I'll cross post yesterdays drawing from my drawing practice thread ,for #2 furniture.

 

[AiArts]

Jade: Thanks... Awesome sketch, so cute and colorful !!!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, thanks for digging into history and sharing with us. The giant swing is amazing as is your sketch!!

Joan, love your breakfast sketch. I don't eat plain eggs! Your sketch is great.

Hi, Fletch. Thanks, hi back from Gene.

Jade, love the red chair.

I sketched on the porch while the house cleaners were here. In the Conda sketchpad with a Micron 03. Number 3 vehicle, tractor and mower trailer
Number 4 cylinder, Gene's metal cup and Number 5 tree

 

[Joan T]

Jade, I wonder what he is reading. Cute!

Jo, nice that you were able to sit out and sketch while the cleaners were there. I like the mower...love the smell of fresh cut grass. Good metal cup and tree.

I've been packing for our trip, but it seems like I'm making very little headway. The problem is that most of what's left to pack has to be done at the last minute. It gave me a little time to do a continuous line sketch. I forgot to take a photo of just the lines.

13 - bowl - ink and watercolors
14 - box
15 - bottle
16 - cylinder
17 - sour

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Thanks. Wonderful mower trailer, tree, and the metal cup.

Joan: Thanks. Nice still life of lime, bowl, can and bottle. You did great continuous line drawing. Have a great trip.

 

[AiArts]

#6 plant or tree ...around my work place..

 

[Jo Castillo]

Joan, the continuous line drawing is amazing. The color gives it more life if that is possible. Nice collection of finds. Can't believe it is time for your trip almost. We all look forward to tagging along......

Ai, the tree trunk is so good. I like the style hatching you used and the lines on the fluffy tree. Excellent.

 

[NedL]

Ai -- That giant swing is neat! I think I've seen pictures of it before, have you sketched it before? Wouldn't catch me on that thing though! Agree with Joan, I like your sketch better than the real thing. Nice texture on the tree sketch and I like the feel of the plants at its base.

Joan -- the white and yellow on black paper is striking. Oh no! I was going to go back and see if that was a continuous line sketch before I started. If yours was a continuous line, I was going to try one too. Then I got my items together and forgot. I like your colors too. Now I wish I'd looked again because it might have reminded me to try simplify my colors more. You'll see what I mean in the next post. I hope you have a wonderful trip.

Jade -- cute kitty and the bright cheerful colors are great! Made me smile to see it.

Jo -- Oh, I'm glad you made it to the game. I was thinking of you that day and wondering if you made it. February seems like a long time off and we have to get through winter first! I like the tractor pulling the mower/brush hog and almost laughed out loud at the hat. The other day I was behind a car with Texas plates and sure enough the driver was wearing hat like that. The cup is great and like the texture and shape of the tree.

Back w/ sketch in a little while.

 

[NedL]

#2 box
#3 bowl
#4 bottle
#5 cylinder
#6 sour

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks so much. Nice sketches of the trees and plants.

Jo, taking a break from last minute packing right now. Will be happy to have everyone here tagging along on the trip.

Ned, many thanks for your comment. It is hard to remember to try the continuous line...so easy to start and then forget and move the pen. lol Good job on the still life with the items...looks like great minds think alike.

Will try to sketch at the airport later. Our flight doesn't leave until around 7, but we always try to get there extra early. Ciao!

 

[Pine Cone]

Very cool art everyone!!! I can’t comment right now, but hope to soon

Joan — have a wonderful and safe trip, and thank you for being willing to include us!!! I can’t wait to see what you sketch

 

[Pine Cone]

2 — “good for your mind or makes you smile” - sunflowers
a definite “Notes-to-Self Sketch”

— non-virtual sketch
— sketched from inside my mobile studio
— freehand

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

— My Re-Learning to Draw Program - Phase 2 (single objects or small scenes)

Color Swatches added as a border
…… ProCreate app
…… Apple pencil

tl;dr (too long, don’t read)

There are sunflowers all over around here, so with winter coming, and even though another storm was threatening, I pulled my mobile studio over near a group of sunflowers growing wild. There were quite a few different colors and types!!! I was eager to beat the rain, so this is just a quick scribble of five different types. I didn’t even do any leaves

On a different day, I made the color swatches shown in the second version, added as a border. I think it would be fun to try a sunflower painting someday and these “Notes” might help with that

 

[AiArts]

#7 sub. Vehicle with boats
#8 people ...a mother with 3 girls at a canteen