Scavenger Hunt from Life #184: Feb 26 - Mar 10

[NedL]

Ai -- the flowers are lovely. I like the way the pink and green go together in that one. The yellow flowered tree is cheerful and great! Like the explosion of color over the wall. Landhaus bakery looks like a good place, I'm getting hungry almost time for dinner!

Robin -- the lines in the angel candle are great!

Joan -- the leftovers from the blizzard look cold, burr, but the green hints that spring might be coming. The watercolor by the bay is really nice. Seeing the urban sketchers is fun, and you do so well how their positions look so natural. Nice to see some of your snow is melting! The "leftover" valentine's rose looks great. Nice job on the big trailer!

Jo -- Those huge trees were redwoods, my photo didn't show very well how huge they are... like 20 feet across at the base and at least 200 feet tall! I like your pen sketches. At first I thought James Avery might have something to do with "Avery Island" ( where tabasco sauce comes from ) but I guess it's a jewelry store I like the textures you made in the trees/shrubs by the lamp post. I have no idea how to make a sky with makers.. those are bright colors. You got the shapes nicely, that jeep is like mine but mine's white.

Fletch -- yay on using direct ink. Like the drink sketch... I want to do more like that where all the values come from the pen, like Jo does too. No idea about the email... I don't have email notifications turned on...

Hope I didn't miss any!

Back in a little while with a sketch, I stopped in a nice sunny spot on the way home from a hike and did a quick sketch... just to sit for a while in the sunshine...

 

[AiArts]

#6 circular ...ink..done at the park's playground

 

[NedL]

Ai -- I like the ink! Good shape on the hanging tire.

I walked today hoping to see a California Nutmeg tree ( not related to the spice at all ). I found some. One had fallen and been cut where it crossed the path so I picked a twig from it. The little round parts are called pollen cones, which is like a flower for this tree.

#2 flower ( sub pollen cone )

photo:

I didn't get a great photo of one of the trees, but this is the part that had fallen and was close to the ground:

 

[AiArts]

Ned: Thanks so much for your kind comments. Love your nature walk: rocks or trees or ocean or the pollen cone. Well done.

 

[Joan T]

Fletch, I may have sent it the first time without a photo attached.

Ned, thanks for your comments. The snow is finally melting since we had a few warmer days and some rain to help wash it away. Now the big piles look ugly and it seems they are everywhere, especially in all the strip malls. There was no place to put all the snow. Thanks for showing the pollen cones in the photo. They are so tiny it would be easy to miss them. Nice job on the twig from the tree. I've never heard of a California nutmeg tree. Seeing things from other locations teaches us a lot. Thanks.

Ai, you found a lot of circular things. My favorite is the tire swing. I always liked playing on those when I was a kid, even though as a "city girl" there weren't too many of them around. I guess I liked them because they reminded me of the country. Now you see them more often in playgrounds and parks.

Hoping to get something sketched today. I've been too lazy when I'm home. That's one of the reasons I like going out with the group on the weekend. I don't want to waste that time not sketching.

 

[Joan T]

11 - free space - watercolors and ink