Scavenger Hunt from Life #6: Dec 20 - 28

[ntl]

Joe1lt, neat cat. Those little figures are challenging, aren’t they?
EP, nicely done! That blueberry needs some friends and some cream!
Ned, I hate to see it, but your rendering of the mistletoe in the tree is well done.
Jo--and everyone, I hope you can relax and enjoy the holidays with family and friends.
Be safe!
3 sketches from me, on 4x6 90 lb WC paper, in gouache: gingerbread man, holiday item--star, and mistletoe. the GBman and star represent baked cookies, but the color of "ginger" is off! So much for mixing colors

 

[jmfletch]

3 - vanilla - (this bottle has been used a lot lately) watercolors and ink
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4 - holiday item from my tree - watercolors and ink
5 - fabric gingerbread ornament - watercolor and ink
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Hmm see the vanilla, where ar3 the cookies? Ornaments are cute and well done.

Keep sketching
Joe

 

[jmfletch]

Hi to All!
I have not been "lurking" exactly , but I have been peeking at the hunt often since you started here at CreativeSpark, and it has been really great! So many great works and great to see the hunt is so active. This seems like a really great place to me.

Joe1t -- I've been enjoying your drawings. Like the sense of depth on the cat.. and that's it's an impression.

EP -- Hi! I like the darker grey and white on the toned paper, that looks good!

I haven't been drawing much lately. I managed a couple of sketches in November and before that one in May and before that February. I'm ready to be done with 2021, it was a rough year. Taking a couple weeks off for the holidays and so happy my daughter was able to come home for the holidays too. Hoping to do more than just one for this hunt!!

#1 Mistletoe -- in a black locust tree at Luther Burbank's experiment farm near Sebastopol in California.
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This is the tree, but from a different angle than where I was drawing:
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I hope you all have wonderful holidays.
-Ned

Nicely done.

Joe

 

[jmfletch]

Joe1lt, neat cat. Those little figures are challenging, aren’t they?
EP, nicely done! That blueberry needs some friends and some cream!
Ned, I hate to see it, but your rendering of the mistletoe in the tree is well done.
Jo--and everyone, I hope you can relax and enjoy the holidays with family and friends.
Be safe!
3 sketches from me, on 4x6 90 lb WC paper, in gouache: gingerbread man, holiday item--star, and mistletoe. the GBman and star represent baked cookies, but the color of "ginger" is off! So much for mixing colors



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Definitely a seasonal sketch. Make a great composition for a Christmas card.

Keep sketching
Joe

 

[NedL]

NTL -- the gingerbread man looks happy maybe about to get kissed!

Joan -- is the "ink wash" in that wonderful poinsettia from the pens too, or did you add WC on top?

 

[NedL]

This is just silly... sitting in my car waiting while my daughter had an appointment, I found a quarter. Without reading glasses, I didn't notice that there was a guy sitting in the boat or that there was a river until I was half done... I thought it was a boat pulled up on a rocky beach, which seemed strange Now the guy is about to smash onto the rock I drew in front of him... Uniball vision, added a little color with tombow pens after I got home...

#2 Quarter

 

[joe1It]

thanks,

thanks,
Joan, wonderful watercolors, I really like them all,
Ntl, beautiful work with a gingerbread man

NedL, beautiful work with quarter coin, beautiful design and beautiful coin

holiday item
2. he becomes melancholy during the holidays


today I also designed a real, holiday item, I have to prepare, add photos

eeyore this flies I tried to draw it bigger, one or 2 times bigger, the other times, almost always, I drew eejore as big as I saw it, it is kraft page a little rough a5 ,, it is a little smaller than the whole sheet , but it is half the page, indeed, it is more than half the page.

 

[Jo Castillo]

3 - vanilla - (this bottle has been used a lot lately) watercolors and ink
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4 - holiday item from my tree - watercolors and ink
5 - fabric gingerbread ornament - watercolor and ink
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Joan, you know I like the wine sketch. My first choice for beverage. Ha. Yummy vanilla, good in your cooking. Cute ornaments. Well drawn, too.

I finally sketched on my iPad with the Brushes app. Quick sketch as we are making tamales today.

Number 1 beverage - daughters Cranberry juice for something different than wine. Ha.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Thanks all for sketching and comments.
Joe, I have several sketchbooks going so rarely finish any. Sketch away when you can.

Ned, that is funny about the quarter. Good job in the end! I like the added color.

joe1lt, awwww, I always like Eeyore. You did great in drawing larger than life. Applause.

Hope I didn't miss anyone, off to the kitchen!

I did miss NTl. Love the cookies and need me some mistletoe so thanks. Well done. Would be a nice card.

 

[Robin Gillis]

Thanks for the list Jo.....gonna try and go for the challenge and do em in order....

 

[ams]

Wow, everyone has been busy making lots of delightful sketches.

Joe1, adorable stray kitten. I'm glad your hunter isn't aiming for him.

EP, nice sketches of the alchoho, berry, game piece, egg, and Christmas ball.

NedL, nice mistletoe. Glad you were able do the sketch.

Joan, nice work on the wine bottle. I like the highlights that make the glass shine. Interesting poinsettia drawing. It's so different from the last one you did. Great work on both versions. Simply Organic vanilla, I use the same brand. Cute holiday item and gingerbread.

ntl, your gingerbread looks yummy.

NedL, I enjoyed your story of your quarter.

Joe1, I hope your holiday item cheers up and enjoys the holiday. He's a cutie.

Jo, nice cranberry juice. I like you captured the soft shine on the plastic bottle.

I have been continuing my experimenting with sketching media. These are done with a micron 005 pen and Caran D'Ache Neocolor II water-soluble crayons. These are all small sketches. All four of them are on half a page of my 6" x 8" Stillman & Birn Alpha sketch book.

I had fun using these materials so I will try this combination again.

Scavenger Hunt 6
#1, Tree
#2, Bow (Holiday Item)
#3, Flower
#4, Quarter

Thanks for hosting this week Jo.

 

[NedL]

Joe -- thanks

Joe1 -- I like Eeyor with his baleful look, but I hope the holidays can cheer him up a little..

Jo -- Hi! Only a couple more months until college baseball, already thinking about it and getting ready to buy the 20 game "flex pass", missed the last 2 seasons ( last year only players' families were allowed in the stands ). Nice job on the cranberry juice, it actually makes me thirsty to see it... I like the way you put white on the top of the liquid, the way it really looks.

Anne -- I can't remember if we met over at WC, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing your sketches when I was browsing through earlier hunts. I like them all but especially the tree! About to go and read about those crayons and find out what they are.

I think this is only the 2nd time I've tried to make orange. I had fun playing and I think I got an orange very close to the right color, but it didn't behave the way I thought it would and kind of made overworked mess.. I decided to stop before it turned into an apple or a grapefruit or avocado or something... Maybe it needs real watercolor paper and drying between "layers" or something like that. The color is a bit more orange than this photo makes it look, at least on my monitor.

#3 fruit, persimmon

 

[ams]

Anne -- I can't remember if we met over at WC, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing your sketches when I was browsing through earlier hunts. I like them all but especially the tree! About to go and read about those crayons and find out what they are.

I think this is only the 2nd time I've tried to make orange. I had fun playing and I think I got an orange very close to the right color, but it didn't behave the way I thought it would and kind of made overworked mess.. I decided to stop before it turned into an apple or a grapefruit or avocado or something... Maybe it needs real watercolor paper and drying between "layers" or something like that. The color is a bit more orange than this photo makes it look, at least on my monitor.

#3 fruit, persimmon
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Ned, nice persimmon. I like the reflection of light on the skin. You're right about letting layers dry before adding more if you want a more even color although I like the effect you ended up with.

I participated in a few Scavenger Hunts on WetCanvas but mainly was in the Weekly Drawing Events so we probably didn't have much contact there. I have been enjoying the Scavenger Hunts here, maybe because my drawing skills have gotten a little better so I can just have fun with them.

 

[joe1It]

yes, EEyore is already happier.
Jo, thank you, nice digital painting, I like it.
Ams, thank you very much, very nice work on all 4, i like the trees, coin and ribbon, and their colors.

Nedl, thank you very much, beautiful work on the fruit and its coloring.

2 holiday item, is a component of the cribs, for some years, with the shepherds above it then, an entire mini crib.
I made one in pen,
and a second in pencil, on the side, I redesigned, only the western head, of the previous drawing,
in the photo the head is horizontally .
It was weeks or months that I didn't try it directly with a pen

I have not been drawing directly with the pen for a few weeks, I tried again a bit, I like the ink that can turn dark quickly, on the one hand I like it, on the one hand afraid of making too much chaos, mistakes

 

[Jo Castillo]

ams, Anne, I like your small sketches. Amazing detail for so small.

Ned, hey. We did not go to any regular season games. They wanted us to buy our season tickets but not use our seats, we would have been where ever for distancing. We watched on TV, they have the home games. We did get tickets for the Regionals and Super Regionals and the Longhorns won which was nice. People were so excited to be out that it seemed like the last game of the Series every game. Lots of standing and yelling. I watched most of the College World Series on ESPN plus on my phone which isn't ideal, but OK. Looks like they may have most games this year. We shall see I guess. Your persimmon looks great. I had never tasted them until last year and have forgotten to check this year.

joe1lt, you are doing so well with the pen. The crib has lots of detail, you captured it nicely. Pen and ink is my main way to sketch so don't even think about it anymore. I make lots of perspective mistakes but, Oh, well. I like once and done so pastels are my favorite painting tools.

 

[joe1It]

Jo, thank you very much for the nice words, I always like your drawings so much

 

[NedL]

Joe1 -- that still-life scene looks very complicated, the second one is getting some depth and sense of the structure. I get the feeling just a little more contrast would make the second one "pop out".

I enjoyed drawing this one... I placed it so that it was foreshortened, and even though I was looking straight at it trying to draw shape I was seeing and not the shape it is, the foreshortening is too weak. I'm going to measure with my pen even more next time...

#4 footware, old work boot. Ink and ink wash.

 

[AiArts]

I've been weaken for a few days from getting Moderna booster shot. Today, I feel better and spent about 45 min on a half sheet wc paper with CoranDach Neocolor. Pls accept this as my Xmas card to you all here.

#1 Chocolate -- cookie
#2 eggplant ..sub. with tomato
#3 gingergread -- sub. with rice cake ... he he Jo ... I treat myself with this organics brown rice cake... yummy
#4 holiday item -- green globe decoration
#5 indigo.. sub. with blue plate
#6 jingle ... a small bell
#7 openbook
#8 berry ... blue berry
#9 vanilla ... sub with dark choc. drink
#10 zigzag ... sub with purple star decoration

 

[AiArts]

Lovely works and Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope to be back to comment.

 

[joe1It]

Nedl, heartfelt thanks, thanks for guidance, I'll try. Nedl, you did a beautiful painting of the boot
Ai, I'm sorry you weren't at your best, happy that it is better and that you have been able to resume drawing. it's a very nice greeting card, thank you, best wishes, happy Christmas Eve everyone.