Scavenger Hunt from Life #182: Feb 2 - Feb 14

[NedL]

Scavenger Hunt from Life #182: Feb 2 - Feb 14

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 #182: Feb 2 - Feb 14

Abacus
Barometer
Calamondin
Doorway
Elephant
Frappé
Gnocchi
Houseplant
Iron
Jalapeño
Kooky
Light
Motorized
New
Outdoors
Person
Quiche
Roof
Street scene
Trombone
Umbrella
Vehicle
Water
Xtra Free Space
Your hand
Zopf

Please freely substitute ( e.g., Trombone = any musical instrument, Abacus = any mechanical device )
And free associations!
And have fun!

 

[Joan T]

Thanks for the new list, Ned!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ned, thanks for the Hunt. I need to think and use the dictionary, so thanks for the hand. Ha. Fun times.

 

[AiArts]

Thanks for the new list Ned. I use a dictionary too....All done with acrylic markers

#1 iron
#2 sub. abacus with Rubik cube
#3 my hand

 

[Jade]

There's something very satisfying about looking at that iron @AiArts !

 

[AiArts]

Jade: Thanks so much Jade.... may be we all taking care of the household...use it often?

 

[Joan T]

Ai, nice work on the iron...a device I very rarely use. Like the hand and Rubik's cube too.

This was painted down by the bay in Blue Point. I was sitting in my mobile studio facing the snow piles by the parking spaces for trailers only.
1 - outdoors - watercolors & watercolor pencils

I did go over to WetCanvas to see if I could still post. It worked. I posted a response to Ned's sketch and then I went back and posted this photo in a thread there. I am still hoping that we can stay here, but I'm glad that I was able to post there just in case I need to.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thank you. Very pretty snow pile scene... love the pile light effect on the back and the parking sign details.

 

[NedL]

I made zopf. That's Swedish pearl sugar on the top... we'll see if I can sketch before it's all gone

 

[AiArts]

Ned: Way to go... go zopf !!!

 

[AiArts]

At a garden cafe, next to my kid's school ...waiting to pick up Lily.

#4 outdoors...pencil+wc

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks! I like the garden view. So nice to sketch while waiting.

Ned, your zopf looks yummy. Now I'm confused...when I looked it up I thought zopf meant something light and airy like a Nerf ball or those foam bats. What's the real deal? lol

 

[NedL]

Ai -- I agree with Jade, something nice about that iron. It's so green and tropical there, that cafe looks inviting. I like the sketch.

Joan -- I like the colors in the snow pile sketch.

Oh No! I've been baking a lot lately and got confused. The bread I baked last night is a Swedish Cardamom Bread! Over the past couple months I baked one where I combined recipes for Swiss Zopf and traditional Challah bread. Those are all braided breads, but the picture isn't Zopf. Oops! Zopf looks pretty much like that but no raisins or pearl sugar.

 

[NedL]

I tried an idea ... with no idea what would happen or if it would work at all.

#1 abacus ( a business, I think for financial advise )

a photo:

I got black and grey posca markers to try this idea of combining sketching from life and printing.

I made a rough pencil sketch, then slid a plastic sheet protector over it and roughly outlined with a red sharpie. I figured the red ink is easy to see but too weak to show up in the final print.

Then I used the grey posca to draw "negative" where the lights should be.

Then I came home and printed it as a cyanotype and soaked it in tea made from wild strawberry leaves to turn the color into dark blue-black.

I'm surprised the results are so clear and white and the lines are so obvious. I thought I'd need the black posca for that. Now I want to dilute the grey with a water brush to see if I can get any midtones. But I also think it could be neat this way, now that I know the lines will show so starkly.

A fun experiment and I'll try some more!

 

[Joan T]

Ned, so zopf is a kind of bread? I've never heard of it, but I've rarely met a kind of bread that I didn't like. lol Interesting process you went through to print the image of the bank. I like it at every stage...they are all so different.

2 - vehicle - watercolors

3 - doorway - watercolors and ink

 

[AiArts]

Ned: Thanks. Fabulous take on the Abacus Bank. Love every steps you did. Very creative.

Joan: Thanks. Fantastic cars with snow, plus the door way with colorful door and lots of snow blobs. Well done.

 

[NedL]

Joan -- brr it looks cold there! I have a feeling that first one really captures the atmosphere. The second one made me chuckle: a simple barber pole wasn't enough for Mr Nick Brr looks cold there too. Yep, zopf is a kind of swiss bread enriched with egg and milk and butter. I make a "low saturated fat" version with nonfat milk, egg whites and oil... but it's still great.

Oops dinner's ready. I'll be back later with today's sketch.

 

[NedL]

#2 weather glass barometer

I played with the poscas a little more today. Water makes it bead up on the plastic. I tried acrylic medium -- it didn't go well but I should try it again. One thing that's really strange, the black posca beaded up and didn't flow on the plastic either! I was lucky that I tried the grey first or I would have given up right away.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks for appreciating my snow sketches.

Ned, Mr Nick seems to have a monopoly on barber shops in Sayville. I know he has at least 4 in that small area...and he advertises heavily outside each store. You can't miss his signs. lol Your bread sounds good. Too bad we can't taste it through the computer. lol It is funny how the different colors of the Posca markers behave differently. I thought they pretty much wrote on anything, but I haven't really tried it on too many surfaces.

 

[AiArts]

Ned: Nice barometer