Scavenger Hunt from Life #183: Feb 14 - Feb 26

[AiArts]

Scavenger Hunt from Life #183: Feb 14 - Feb 26

Happy Valentine's you all.

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 #183: Feb 14 - Feb 26

art tool you love (s)
building
car
desk/table
egg
funky thing (s)
glass
horse
indoor
jar
kettle
lemon or lime
money
nature
outdoor
people/person
quilt
refrigerator
structure
sweet
truck
van
fruit (s)
freespace#1
freespace#2

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks for the new list.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, thanks for the list

 

[Joan T]

The NYC Urban Sketchers met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art today.
1 - glass windows - colored pencils
2 - outdoor view

3 - person/people

4 - funky thing from the 15th - 17th century- colored pencils

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Wow... excellent start of this Hunt. Love the glass giant windows with bear exhibits... nice statue with people around and the funky wooden statue.

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks. I bought a set of Prismacolor Premium colored pencils to use. This winter we've been to museums a lot and they require dry media. I decided to find something new (to me) to use. As always, many of the guards look the other way and you can use pretty much whatever you want. This is the room where you and I sketched together. Yesterday it was the focus of lots of the sketchers.

 

[joe1It]

hi,
Ai, thanks for list,
Joan, wonderful wonderful art

 

[NedL]

Ai -- thanks for the list
Joan -- wow on the colored pencil sketches!

 

[Joan T]

Joe, thanks. Good to see you stop in. How are things with you?

Ned, many thanks. I have to get used to using them. All day I wanted to be working in watercolors, but I was trying to be good about following the rules.

I told a ride down to the beach in Sayville. The bay is slowly thawing out so I guess I missed seeing the ice boats out there.

5 - nature - watercolors and ink

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Yes, I miss sketching there. Lovely thawing out bay scene.

 

[jmfletch]

Ai - Thanks for the list. Once more trying to get drawing back into my daily routine. Taking car in for an oil change tomorrow so taking iPad and planning to draw a car and hopefully people.

Joan - Your museum pieces are beautiful.

 

[Pine Cone]

Hi everyone — Wonderful seeing you all here….. don’t know what I’ll do without you all….. I have a quick sketch and hope to post it soon but feel so sad to be losing this group soon…..

Joan — Fun to see sketches with supplies that are new to you, along with one you did with your familiar watercolors. Love them all – really cool stuff from the museum and the Sayville sketch is wonderfully restful.

 

[Pine Cone]

1 - “nature” - scrub brush

— non-virtual sketch
— sketched in my mobile studio
— freehand

NOTE: For additional details, see attachment here.

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Direct-to-ink #2

This could be a boulder, a mountain, a pile of dirt, lol, but it’s really just a quick outline sketch of some kind of scrub plant along the side of the road, among the rocks and grass. They’re everywhere, but this was quite a large one. Maybe someday I’ll sketch something like this in more detail, and recognizable

 

[Jo Castillo]

Joan, love your bears, statues and people. You always get a jump start. Lovely. Do you ever use watercolor pencils and then add the water later? Colored pencils get me tired in the coloring and coloring and coloring..... ha. But still fun to try something new. The beach scene is super.

Hi, Ai, Joe, Fletch and Ned.

Pine Cone can you go to wetcanvas until we see what is what? You used to be there, right? We don't want to lose you.
Anyone can send me an email if we disappear here until we decide on wc or whatever. jo@jocastilloart.com If you lose this you can always search me on google or wherever as Jo Castillo artist, email on my website , jocastilloart.com There is a "Joe" Castillo male artist that might come up if you misspell my name. Ha.
Hope to sketch tomorrow.
Later, everyone.....

 

[Joan T]

Well, everything is covered with a fresh coating of snow (about 2 inches). Hopefully it will be warm enough so that some of it melts quickly.

Ai, I think back to sketching there with you every time I'm in that room.

Fletch, thanks. Hope you have a good view while your car is being serviced.

Pine Cone, thanks so much. For some reason I never worked much in colored pencil except when I was a kid. I still much prefer watercolors, but it is a good backup for the museums. Some of them will confiscate paints if you bring them. Your sketch definitely has the outer shape of the shrub. That is a new Canson sketchbook to me. It may be that I just don't look at sketchbooks for just pen & ink. I use the watercolor one for most of my sketching. Since I go through them so quickly they are a fairly good quality and not too expensive. Of course I have other brands too. The ones I did at the museum this time were in a Moleskin sketchbook. We will try our best to keep you in the loop if Creative Spark closes.

Jo, thanks. I've used the watercolor pencils and added water later, sometimes in the cafeteria when we used to break for lunch. Now I skip the lunch break like most of the sketchers and just sketch instead. It takes too much time away from the day. I survive with a small bag of almonds that I tuck into my bag.

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Thanks for a nice message of our super short but art cool moment

PineCone: Nice shrub... Don't panic if CS is gone after March 6... Try to check the old Wetcanvas.... Praying that CS can continue...

Hello: Fletch, Jo, Robin, and all.

 

[jmfletch]

Guess in frequent abscence I missed something. is this site possibly closing?

Pine Cone - looks bushy from here. I would not worry about losing this group. Am sure IF this site has to close we will regroup and spread the word, if we can’t move smoothly as a group we can swap emails and resync.

I brought a pocket sketchbook and an HB pencil with me. Not particularly proud of either but I sketched and. in public!

#1 car - it is a Nissan dealership and when I arrived the had just driven a 1970 Datsun 240Z into the showroom. I knelt/squatted on the floor and drew a a very disproportioned version. Remembered to get a photo of the car but they had already moved it and set it up beside a 2026 Nissan Z.

#2 person - also at dealership and looks more like a cartoon. Definitely need to practice drawing people more.

Keep sketching and learning
Fletch