Scavenger Hunt from Life #40: Sep 28 - Oct 6

[Robin Gillis]

Jo- that the latest pinecone tree sketch is so delicate- nice one

 

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks,

Amo, sweet story about the egg. It is a fancy one for sure. Beautiful. Your sketch is great.

Hey, NedL, nice to see you.

Off to a slow start this morning. Hope to sketch. Lots of paper work on Mondays. Yikes.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Out on the porch, where else in the Art Street Sketchbook with a Micron 03.
#7 youth person - substituting the chatty lady walkers that go by every morning. I can't really see their faces, too far away
#8 egg - part of my egg sandwich and the shell

 

[AiArts]

AMO: I ditto Jo and Robin... the egg sketch is beautifully delicate.

Jo: Love pine and the lady walking. Nice egg and shell.

Robin: Thank you...

ntl & Ned & EP: Hello

Joe: I hope your home is not damage by Ean storm. Glad to hear that you are safe.

Plan to be back later to comment more.

 

[Joan T]

Somehow it looks like I missed a page yesterday.

Jo, nice work on the different kinds of trees. I can understand not having time for Inktober this year.

Kay, I'm doing Inktober. I've done it for a long time. I don't follow the prompts...just do ink sketches. I try to use a variety of inks.

EP, how fun that your money is different colors...makes it easy to figure out what you've got. Pardon my ignorance, but who are the faces on the money?

Angela, I'm glad to hear that you are going to do Inktober. Nice hatching on the pen! For someone who didn't do it in pencil first you did really well. I try to sketch directly in ink most of the time now. It gets easier with practice.

Ai, it is nice that you have a young model willing to pose for you. Nice job! I like the sketch of the tuk-tuk-cycle. Your lines give it a lot of energy.

Joe, nice job on the egg in the bag.

I seem to be caught up on some of the sketches before Ai's trip. Let's see if I can figure out what else I need to comment on.

Jo, thanks. I like your bit of pine with the cones. Nice collection of bills and coins that I recognize. Fun to capture the group of walkers out getting their exercise. The egg sandwich looks good enough to eat.

Angela, thank you. Nice job on the pattern on your treasured egg from your friend.

Robin, thank you.

I think I'm caught up now.

7 - bike - ink

8 - vehicles - ink
9 - glass windows
10 - organic (trees)

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, thanks.
Joan, your bike is cool. Good perspective. I need to get out and sketch new things. I love the Crab Co. sketch. I first read ‘carb’. Ha. Love the vehicles and detail.

 

[eyepaint]

Joan - thank you. Good question about the people on our money. Please bear with me.

In summary:
$ 5 - Sir Wilfred Laurier
$ 10 - Viola Desmond or Sir John A MacDonald
$ 20 - Queen Elizabeth II
$ 50 - W.L. Mackenzie King
$100 - Sir Robert L Borden

Most of the people are former Prime Ministers of Canada. Yes, the money is different colours. It's also plastic (!)


In detail:
Yes our bills are all different colours which is oh-so-helpful from a distance. For the US money I have to look close if it's a $1 or $10 since they are the same colour... but usually $1 are more tattered/well used. Also our bills are plastic (polymer) - not paper. And they have holograms and other anti-counterfeit measures. Reportedly it's working - the fakes are easier to spot. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/counterfeiters-perplexed-by-canada-s-plastic-money-1.3401839

- The $5 bill has Sir Wilfred Laurier (7th Prime Minister of Canada, 1841-1919, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier) on the front, and the CanadaArm on the back - a robotic arm on the space shuttle. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm)

- The $10 bill has Viola Desmond (Canadian civil rights and woman's rights activist, 1914-1965, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond) on the front and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba (https://humanrights.ca/) on the back. This bill design seems to have won an international banknote of the year award (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...ll-wins-banknote-design-competition-1.5116527 - who knew that was even a thing?) in 2019; the note may have become legal tender in 2018.

- Some $10 bills have Sir John A MacDonald on the front (1st Prime Minister of Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald) and the "Canadian" train on the back (maybe this one? https://canadarail.ca/) . The bill I consulted was issued in 2013.

- The $20 bill has Queen Elizabeth on the front and the Canadian National Vimy Memorial (in France! https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/vimy) statue on the back.

- The $50 bill has W.L. Mackenzie King (10th Prime Minister of Canada, 1874-1950, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King) on the front and a Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen on the back. This was an icebreaker in service 1979-1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_Amundsen)

- The $100 bill I don't see often (I'm not imagining it - wikipedia says "It is the highest-valued and least-circulated of the notes since the $1000 note was gradually removed from circulation starting in 2000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_one-hundred-dollar_note) It has Sir Robert L Borden (8th Prime Minister of Canada, 1854-1937, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Borden) on the front and a woman with a microscope on the back with a bottle of Insulin depicting the discovery of insulin .

Phew - I feel I wrote an essay. I'll return with more comments later.

 

[eyepaint]

Oh and by the way our smallest bill is $5 and anything smaller is in coins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Canadian_dollar)

- $2 (toonie - portmanteau of two + loonie) - first issued in 1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie)
- $1 (loonie) - first issued in 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie)
Then the usual quarter, dime, nickel. The penny has been taken out of circulation since 2012 ("The production of the Canadian 1-cent piece (known as the "penny") was discontinued in 2012, as inflation had reduced its value significantly below the cost of production." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Canadian_dollar

 

[eyepaint]

Angela - thank you. Good ink pen. What a beautiful egg! Did your friend decorate this one? Does it come out at Easter or does it decorate all year long?
Ai - thank you. Good Lily the model Yay for hybrid bike/motorcycle/tuk. Look how far back it parked. I bet it does not have a backup camera Is there any moves to make electric tuktuks in your area? There is a move toward electric vehicles here (Canada + USA) Love it - the view on the riverside. There seems to be a ferris wheel that reminds me of that London Eye attraction in that it's beside the water How interesting to have tall buildings (20 stories or more?) beside fields/flats and regular houses. And is that yellow and red building a school church? Love your plants in ink.
joe1lt - good egg. Is it inside the bag (and we have x-ray vision?) or did it come out of the bag for sketching?
Joan - good vehicle getting refueled. Maybe the elevated price of gas caused the squashing? Look at all those apples in wooden baskets! What a majestic bike! What are those chequered like things decorating the Harbor Crab patio? And do you know how challenging it was to not spell it harbour? lol. I just went to their site to investigate and I see photos of some tasty looking food. I should not be looking at food pictures at this time of night
Jo - thank you. Yay pinecones! Yay money!
Robin - thank you
NedL - hello! Who are the two doggies in your profile photo?

 

[amo]

Robin, thanks.

NedL, hi!

Jo, thanks. I like the walkers.

Ai, thanks.

Joan, thanks. Harbor Crab Co is excellent.

EP, thanks. Thanks for the currency lesson, too. The egg was manufactured somewhere, I'm sure. It's metal (cloisonne?). The egg lives in an antique curio cabinet (family heirloom) filled with both likely and unlikely "treasures" -- some special Christmas ornaments and figurines/knickknacks that were my mothers, but also a stuffed animal I grew up with and some toys my mother collected. Old books, a doll my grandmother made, wall hangings my other grandmother painted. Acrylic prism and other optical toys my sister got me for art/photography. It's pretty random. And pretty full.

Inktober #3 / Scavenger Hunt #40 #3 Table or furniture, gel pen in 6x6 inch sketchbook.
Yesterday I had two medical appointments in Carson City, and I didn't want to drive home in between, so I took myself to lunch. I sketched at the table after I was done eating, but I never sketch in public, and I was very uncomfortable. So I quit pretty quickly. But maybe I'll try again soon. Nobody tried to talk to me or look over my shoulder or anything.

 

[Joan T]

Jo, lol, sometimes I think the restaurants could be considered carb houses.

EP, thanks. I feel like we got a whole history lesson! I like that the bills are made of plastic...maybe they last longer. Ours get so tattered looking. There is a lattice fence that makes that checkered pattern under the Harbor Crab. Their food is good, but I haven't eaten there much.

Angela, bravo for sketching in public! Nice sketch of the table, chair, and items on the table. Hope the food was good.

Today I went to the Stony Brook Ambulatory Center to have my second cataract surgery. It went well and I sketched in the time I was waiting before the surgery. Of course they kept interrupting me with eyedrops, vitals, and then the doctor, anesthesiologist and their assistants came in to talk with me. Then the doctor made all of them check out what I was sketching. This is my Inktober sketch for today.

11 - warm blanket covering my legs - ink
12 - desk (being used by the nurse)

 

[eyepaint]

Angela - thanks - yay egg in the curio cabinet! Great idea to stay for lunch in Carson City and having the foresight to sketch your lunch items!
Joan - thanks. The plastic money was tough to get accustomed to - you can bend it but you cannot fold it. I have a feeling that bills have great longevity now ... Glad your cataract surgery went well - imagine having the foresight (!) to bring sketching materials and to see well enough (and feel well enough) to sketch!

 

[Jo Castillo]

EP, thanks for the currency lessons. I miss having Canadian money around. Surely there are some toonies around here someplace. Fun to hear about the history.

amo, good for you to sketch after your lunch. It gets easier all the time. Ask Joan and Ai....

Joan, wow, you did well sketching at your surgery. Hope you get rest tonight and have a speedy recovery and see super well. Applause.

I did not sketch. Just lazy I guess.

 

[amo]

Joan, thanks. The food was good. I've been meaning to try other restaurants in that area, but it's hard to walk past that one. I'm glad the surgery went well. Cool pre-surgery sketch.

EP, thanks.

Jo, thanks. I do hope I can get more comfortable with sketching in public. I have no problem dancing in public (without much provocation), so I should be able to get past the anxiety.

#4 is Glass, same sketchbook, same materials, about 15 minutes. My subject is a little strange, so I'll include a photo of that. One of my nephlings decorated it as a Christmas present when they were little; they're grown up now. I put paper behind my glass so you can't see my messy space, but the paper wasn't there when I drew it. (Same thing with the egg the other day.)

 

[Robin Gillis]

1-pen, preppy fountain
2 - love(roses)
3-numbers
4-radio

 

[joe1It]

thanks for the nice words, I really like what you are publishing.
i did this, 2 House, house keys and weird portac
key in the shape of a ladybug

 

[Jo Castillo]

amo, good job on the glass. Nice keepsake.

Robin, oh, I love your sketches. The fountain pen is lovely as is your handwriting. Good handwriting shows our age I think. The radio is great and I can smell the roses.

joe1lt, ahhh, sweet ladybug. Is that to hide a key? Nice shapes on the keys.

Later .....

 

[amo]

Inktober #5, Scavenger Hunt #5, Ink, same materials, about 15 minutes.

 

[AiArts]

EP: Thanks. Cool info. on plastic Banknotes.... Yes... Thai banknotes are getting more in plastic forms too ... some old vending machines here were not upgraded to take these new plastic notes yet... The Yellow Red building was the First Presbytarian Church of Bangkok. .. The Ferris wheel is a part of Asiatique the Riverfront, the tourist attraction (crafty + shopping + lifestyle night mall by our big riverside).

Cool stuffs in ink, Joan, AMO, Joe1
Jo, ntl, Ned : Thanks for keeping this place alive.

AMO: Thanks. Love the glass, ink bottle, and the fancy egg.

Joan: Thank you. Glad your eye operation went well. Love all of your records from shops to hospital scenes.

Robin: Thanks. Lovely "love" Rose in ink. Glad you can join in.

Joe & Lurkers: Hope you can find time to sketch some and join in.

Well I plan to have a weekend away by the beach town Hua Hin... as our kids are on school break but Tone and I are still with University active week. However, since some of our work can be done/prep away from Univ. office so I hope I can get to sketch some while there.

 

[Robin Gillis]

Lots of great line sketches!

many here are talking up Inktober . Thanks for the invite Ai. I will and will be in good company! ;>}

Will post hunt#41 in a few minutes .....so there will be lots of subjects to sketch today seeing how the hunts overlap.