Scavenger Hunt from Life #172: Oct 05 - Oct 17

Laundry line - watercolors and ink
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Joan - Thanks for wonderful views of Venice. Love how you did the water.
Question: Your drawing board looks corrugated. How do you keep that from showing in your painting?

#1armchair - recliner
#2 bookshelf
Experimented drawing freehand in ink with fountain pen. Got my angles screwed up holding the pad with no support. Image is about 3 inch square image on drawing paper.
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Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
 
Joan -- the Venice scene with people and docked gondolas is great and the canal scene is just fantastic. Like Fletch, I was drawn to the wonderful reflections in the water, and overall it has a great sense of light. I hope you are having some good food there too!

Ai -- the 'red uncle" is kind of odd, but interesting! Nice lines on the pod and the rattan chair is great! Can I ask what kind of brush you used to get those fine lines in the back of the chair? I'd like to have a travel brush that could do that. The one I got a few weeks ago is too long to put in my little travel case.... or I might cut the handle.... The ceramic duck is cute and your sketch of it is great and like happens I like your sketch better than RL.

Pine Cone -- I like your moon, the shading on it looks like the real thing, and the nice deep blue background with subtle tone shifts is the right place for it!

Fletch -- good job freehand with the fountain pen! I think there's something neat about diving in with the pen... in a strange way, since you can't erase, and it is what it is, even if there are little mistakes it's kind of freeing. I carried my fountain pen all summer and only ever used the uniball vision rollerball pens.

Back later with the sketch from today.
 
Home and happy to walk at the beaches here!

My water brush with ink in it didn't behave the way I'm used to, so there's not as much texture as intended. Maybe I need to clean it or maybe I should replace the ink, not sure what happened. Ink kind of separated in the clouds too. I think I'll clean it and change the ink tomorrow.

#2 rock or stone
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Ai -- it's really neat to see what the color did for that! I like the "draw what you see"!

Fletch -- On the West side of Bainbridge Island there are a couple of places where there are interesting patterns in the sandstone/clay bank along the shore. I think they might be a kind of fossilized xylem pattern. Just a few hundred feet away, on a shingle that is uncovered at low tide, some of the "stone" is nearly petrified ancient fallen tree trunks. I went there three different times to sketch the pattern, and each time I forgot to check the tides and couldn't get to them. Hopefully next summer!
 
Ned said, “I like your moon, the shading on it looks like the real thing….”

Thanks Ned 🙂 Hopefully I’ll be back later with more comments, but for now, here are the steps I took to create the Moon portion of the last sketch I posted.

I also included a screenshot of my ProCreate “layers palette” showing the layers relevant to the Moon portion of the drawing.

Please forgive….. I was exhausted and cold, and the seeing wasn’t great. I only managed a little texture, which did NOT match well with the real Moon outside my car.

Although I had fun, I did very poorly with the “phase shadow” and would do it differently if I had it to do over.

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NOTE: If anyone wants to see steps for any other aspect of my sketch, let me know, and I’d be glad to provide them.

NOTE: If anyone would like to see the steps for the lettering in my “RUBIN’S FIRST LIGHT” sketch, let me know, as I’d be glad to share that as well.

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Here are thumbnails of a few more examples of texture in my previous iPad / ProCreate work, from better times. I painted a lot of texture into all of these, and, in fact, four of them relate specifically to the Moon, and one of them represents the Moon itself, in a sense.

Let me know if you’d like me to post any of the full images here. In a sense, they would fit, because I sketched them all from life, for the Scavenger events.

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The above are from the following threads, still available on Wet Canvas…..

SH #594 - hosted by Fletch

July 15, 2019
The Apollo Story

https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/scavenger-hunt-594-jul-8-jul-16/page/2/#post-852179

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SH #595 - hosted by Ai

https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/scavenger-hunt-595-jul-16-24/#post-855177

July 17, 2019
stereoscopic viewer
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……… and scroll down for more texture and more Moon

July 19, 2019
petrified wood
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July 19, 2019
more background textures
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July 20, 2019
border
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July 20, 2019
Merrell shoe print dreaming of walking on the Moon
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Fletch, thanks. Glad you are enjoying the trip. The backing board is actually corrugated on the inside to make it strong. It doesn’t show thru the paper. I get it in Lowe’s where they sell thing for making signs. It is super light and I can cut it into sizes that fit in my backpack. Some sheets are sort of clear like this one and some are white. Looks like a comfy sitting area.

Ned, thanks so much. The food is so good. Lots of pasta and lots of seafood, especially the shellfish. Love those bid rocks! You make me want to explore your beaches.

Ai, how fipun that you got to sketch your own reflection but without your heads. lol. Great color!

Pine Cone, thanks for showing your steps.
 
Ned: Thanks. I bought a whole set of these Raphael's watercolor travel brushes. The one I use for the rattan chair was the smallest brush, I show next to the sketch. Overall, I love this travel set but I only pick a few of the total 6 brush set to go with most of my urban sketching trip. BTW, I also did that chair sketch in a big 9x11 inch sketchbook, so to make small rattan line details, is not as hard as do the same sketch in a much smaller sketchbook ! .....Here is the link to that small travel wc brushset on Amazon. In my photo, I also put the regular size pen, and a regular wc brush for you to see the scale.

Thanks for sketch the amazing pacific rock for us to see. Stay safe with the tides. Glad you got home safely. Have fun with cleaning the brushpens. I know the great sketch artist of Singapore, Francis Theo, he showed me he preloads several of his watercolor brushes with different values of gray tones. So when he needed to do a quick sketch, he did some lines with ink, then used different tones of wc shades from each wc brush to add shadow at the right darkness level. Pretty awesome, to hear him explained and showed me during our Phuket Sketchwalk 2 months ago event.

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FYI: Below is Francis Theo's urban sketch work, likely using his method of preloading several wc brushpens with several gray shades.

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PineCone: Yes, the moon glow was beautifully done.

Fletch: Thanks so much. I like your quick shelf and arm chair. The shelf looks strong and solid, the armchair looks comfy. I got the same angles messed up often too... from keep changing my view angle.

Joan: Thanks. The mirror make me think that we do have not so bad legs...lol. Your Venice water scene is spotted on and timeless. Love everything about it, from hanging clothes, all boats and gondola, and the iron bridge, brick with beautiful shadow. Perfecto !!!

Jade and all: Thanks.
 
Ai -- thank you! I didn't realize it was 9x11, that makes a difference! The only two travel brushes I have are size 6 and size 2, and mostly I only use the 6. It sounds like Francis Theo uses water brushes like I've been doing. I found that touching the tips together makes any middle tone, so now I only carry 1 light and 1 dark. And a black inktense pencil if I need very dark.
 
Fletch, thanks. Glad you are enjoying the trip. The backing board is actually corrugated on the inside to make it strong. It doesn’t show thru the paper. I get it in Lowe’s where they sell thing for making signs. It is super light and I can cut it into sizes that fit in my backpack. Some sheets are sort of clear like this one and some are white. Looks like a comfy sitting area.

Ned, thanks so much. The food is so good. Lots of pasta and lots of seafood, especially the shellfish. Love those bid rocks! You make me want to explore your beaches.

Ai, how fun that you got to sketch your own reflection but without your heads. lol. Great color!
 
4 — “Zebra butterfly” - Canada Goose

associations:
….. Zebra butterfly
…….. zebra
……….. Burchell’s zebra (see photo below)
………….. black, brown, and white (see photo below)
…………….. Canada Goose (black, brown, and white)

— non-virtual sketch
— 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)

I’d planned to do this entire SH on my iPad, but I was at the pond, and the Canada Geese were back. I only had my Pocket sketchbook with me, and I have no idea how long the geese might be around, so I watched them for a long time, and then sketched one that was near, in my little sketchbook.

Very cool, the way the ducks were curious about the geese !!! Very friendly towards each other, and totally willing to share their pond with the friendly geese 💕💞

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Here’s a photo collage showing that Canada Geese share the same black, brown and white colors of Burchell’s Zebras.

Photo Credits:
….. birdfact.com (Canada Goose)
….. Yathin S. Krishnappa on Wikipedia

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Ai - was going to comment on leg drawing you had nice subject than saw your comment later. Fir some reason that painting looks almost like a studied piece. Nit sure what makes that impression. Thanks for sharing the Theo image.

Ned - Xylem in a petrified tree/log would make a very abstract looking yet realistic image. Be cool subject.

Pine Cone - Only you could make layering interesting LOL. THANKS! Did you save all those older textures or go back and find them? The goose is excellent! Beautiful hatching. That image of the flying goose is so detailed that is a super photo.

Joan-that is a clever drawing board. Most of mine are Masonite or particle board. Oh or old card board supports from drawing pads.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch
 
Hi all, today Tony and I made a visit to an artisan bread studio, which only open once a month for public tasting and purchase. The studio owner spent many years horning his bread making skills in France before open up this bread studio for mainly teaching. Sketches were done quickly in a small 120 grams notebook with pencil+ wc.

#11 sub. a bookshelf with a breadshelf

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#12 sub. pinecone with bread pieces...

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At the beginning,, when we got there a bit early.

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Notice below, some breads were gone from the shelf after customers stopping by and made purchases.
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Pine Cone, nice that the goose cooperated and stayed nearby. Glad they have a good relationship with the ducks. I need to sketch one of the pigeons or gulls here.

Fletch, the plastic ones come in handy since they are so lightweight.

Ai, I would want to eat my way through that store! Great sketches. The sketch has such a nice atmosphere. The displays are nicely set up.
 
Fletch - Sweet armchair is snuggling close to bookshelf for easy reach. Yes!! purslane is small, smooth, crunchy ice-plant type succuletn. I just cut the small branches and chop is up leaves and all....in salad, or garnish on baked potato etc.. It's flavor is really unobtrusive - mostly texture and nutrition.

Joan - WOW - gorgeous profession level watercolors of Italy. Love the clothesline and gondolier slipping under the bridge in the background.....fabulous!!

Pine cone - nice wildlife...didn't know Wet Canvas was still around.

Ai - cozyu wicker chair. Great Work!!! love the colors

Jo - sweet silhouette of trees. They look like good friends getting a group hug for a portrait!

Ned - Beautiful silhouette of buldings and trees.....looks oriential style. The simple rock forms with subtile shading and oh....the sky ..it's all so gentle and quite moment...thanks
 
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