Scavenger Hunt from Life #191: May 2 2 - Jun 13

[Jo Castillo]

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-11

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 #191: May 2 2 - Jun 13 - Jo Castillo

Art Supply
Book
Coat
Dangerous
Elegant
Flashlight
Garden tool
Handy
Indigo
Junk
Kitchen item
Lettuce
Magic
Newest
Oak leaf
Pattern
Quartet
Rustic
Surprise me
Terrain
Uptown
Vacation
Wagon
X - free space
Yellow
Zooms

Have fun!

 

[Joan T]

Jo, thanks for the new list...looks interesting. Have a good day!

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Thanks for the list.

 

[Jo Castillo]

We are OK. Gene is hospitalized with a slight case of pneumonia. He takes so many meds his blood pressure dropped. We were supposed To go home today but they decided to put him in skilled nursing. It is a long weekend so may be here until Tuesday. I sketched on my iPad so will make it fit and post later.

 

[Joan T]

Hi, Ai!

Jo, I'm sorry to hear that Gene isn't doing too well. I hope the skilled nursing will get him healthier. I do keep him on my prayer list so I hope that helps too. Do they allow you to stay with him or do you go home? Take care of yourself too. ((Hugs to both of you!))

I think I mentioned that the watercolor paper in my sketchbook from Venice doesn't take watercolor very well. I tried coating a few of the pages with one coating of watercolor ground to see if it helps. The paint and the ink don't bleed as much, but it still isn't anything like the paper I usually use. It sops up the color quickly.

1 - terrain - watercolors

2 - pattern on the metal railing - watercolors and ink
3 - zooms (cars)

 

[ArizonaGal]

#1 Dangerous

Graphite, 2B & 4B, touch copic pencil eraser. Strathmore sketch paper

Sketch, object, a Japanese gardening knife

 

[AiArts]

Jo: don't worry of the Hunt...but do sketch if it helps you kill waiting time in hospital. My prayers go for Gene and your family for his fast recovery. Hugs.

Joan: love both the Pizza and terrain sketch... I used to try to add my homemade faint gelatin soluble (I dilute cooking gelatin powder in warm water) and put/ paint it on my dead wc paper... Let it dry completely. I successfully recover some sizing effect that the old wc paper had lost. I have not done that as regular practice. Hope to do more to be able to tell you more precisely about it.

ArizonaGal: Wow..what a fabulous sharp knife effect you achieved.

 

[AiArts]

Tone and I stopped at this place for a high calorie breakfast (our cheat day) on our Sat. morning.

#1 yellow...the butter on my bagel...cp

 

[Pine Cone]

JoC — My heart and thoughts are with you and Gene, and like Joan, you both are *always* in my prayers. Don’t worry about the SH, but come and be with us here if you wish Luv to you both

Everyone — More comments soon.

 

[AiArts]

#2 Magic...Praying by Chaophra River at Thongbon Temple, Bangkok ... directwatercolor

 

[AiArts]

#3 uptown -- Panorama view of Chaophraya River from IconSiam megashopping mall. I am grateful for the host mall, who opens its top deck area for our BangkokSketchers group to sketch this view this afternoon....pencil+ wc ...about 1 hour on a 12*12 cm. ArtCreations sketchbook.

 

[Joan T]

ArizonaGal, great shading on that knife....looks like a serious one!

Ai, thanks for the gelatin suggestion. I had looked at videos of that but I didn't know how long the solution would last before going bad. I thought the watercolor ground would work better. I probably should try putting on another coat to see if that helps. Love the sketch of the prayer area under the trees. You get such nice, rich colors.

Hoping to get out to sketch something. Showers are forecasted for today and heavy rain for tomorrow, so I didn't go to the city to meet the NYC Urban Sketchers. It isn't worth traveling so far to get rained on. Here I can still find a location and sit in my mobile studio to sketch.

 

[ArizonaGal]

#2 Garden tool. Micron pen + new Mei Liang watercolors, Payne's Grey. On Phinus cellulose watercolor paper, 140# (though it isn't 100% cotton, I can actually recommend this as holding up pretty good for non cotton paper... It also has a rough side and a smooth side which is interesting.) 5 minutes.

I live in Southern Arizona and luckily at elevation, which means June only gets up to about 105 f, 42C. Still, you need 50% or better shade cloth to keep plants alive so these are the little clips that clip the shade cloth onto other things.

 

[Joan T]

ArizonaGal, thanks for explaining what the clips are for. Nice sketch of them. I've never use that paper. Does the watercolor lift well?

Drizzly day here, but I did go down to the famers market in Sayville. Luckily I can park near some of the booths and stay dry in my mobile studio. Today I parked near the pretzel man...tempting but I didn't get out of my car.

4 - yellow tent - watercolors and ink
5 - raincoats

 

[ArizonaGal]

ArizonaGal, thanks for explaining what the clips are for. Nice sketch of them. I've never use that paper. Does the watercolor lift well?

Yes. And I got it on sale at Amazon for $6.99, 30 sheets.

If I could only go back and tell me 6 months ago which brands of everything to buy I would be richer! This and the Mei Liang paints would have been pretty good for starting my learning journey.

Lovely painting, do you do a lot of urban sketching?

 

[AiArts]

Joan: Beautiful work at the Pretzels.

ArizonaGal: Nice tools sketches.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks everyone. Turns out Gene had a stomach bleed, caused weakness etc. Endoscopy fixed that. Long weekend so if he gets back to walking we can go home Monday or Tuesday. Doing much better tonight.
I sketched on my iPad Tuesday i think. Number 1 Indigo-Austin skyline from hospital. Need to find the sketch from last time to compare. Used app, Brushes.

Welcome ArizonaGal. All of you are sketching great stuff. Ill comment more when i can. Im on my phone and hate typing on it.
number 1. Indigo

 

[AiArts]

Jo: Glad to hear your good news. Hope Gene recovery fast. Nice indigo sky of Texas. The light speckles are so cute.

 

[Pine Cone]

JoC It’s so good to hear from you and know you guys are doing well, and on the mend And wowow, what an amazing skyline sketch….. moody, atmospheric, and exciting!!! Thinking of you

 

[ArizonaGal]

#3 art supply. At my age it doesn't hurt to have a magnifying glass for when you check a book out of the library full of Art and want to look more closely. Graphite, eraser, cotton swab blending on Strathmore paper. 15 m. I'd really like to try this again and do a better job at the light reflecting through the curved the lens. Interesting.

#4 "oak" leaf. We don't have oaks or maples or...many trees. We have mesquite and yuccas. Oleander leaves was the best i could manage, and it starts with the letter o! Watercolor and a bit of graphite.

And Joan, for you, at the bottom edge of this painting ,I scrubbed to check when I could get the paper to fall apart and it took two applications of water and a stiff acrylic brush.