Scavenger Hunt from Life #88: Oct 17 - Oct 25

[M50Paull]

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:
Scavenger Hunt from Life Host Sign Up List
https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-host-sign-up-list.2481/


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 listless, 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 9 days, with the next hunt starting on the 9th 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!



Lunch Box or food storage place
Drip or something leaky*
Door or something you enter
Overcoat or something that keeps you warm
Flowers or something that smells nice
Tweezers or something that pinches
Hinge or something that holds things together
Easy Chair or any thing you sit on
Room or favorite place
Something Dangerous*
Nozzle or spray
Gift or something you received from a friend
Shrubs or landscape
Broom or cleaning tool
Yoke or something you can eat
Jar or something with a cylinder shape
Ring or something round
Rider or Transportation vehicle
Trees or something made of wood
Outside view of street or building(s)
Light or something heavy
Knocker on door or decorative ornament
Something Spicy*
Dream or sleep related*
Something Plump*
Golden*

*Prompts from a current INKTOBER challenge.... I was doing the INKTOBER challenge so I included some of them above #Inktober2023

 

[Triduana]

Thanks for the list! I really want to take part, I need to break out of this slump I'm in!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ha, Paul. Thanks for the list. Interesting.
Hey Triduana, Kay D, hope you get to play with us.

 

[M50Paull]

#1. Remove ---- Eraser used to remove all my mistakes.

 

[M50Paull]

#2 Vehicle ... Construction vehicle... They were replacing a fire hydrant next door... pencil

 

[AiArts]

Paul: Thanks for the cool list. Great start of this Hunt. Love your hand with an eraser.

 

[Pine Cone]

Paul — Thanks for an inspiring list! And zowie - fantastic sketches of complex stuff. I've been studying them both. Very impressive work

Triduana and Everyone —

 

[jmfletch]

Paul, thanks for new list an$ a great kickoff with excellent sketches. I do have a question about them. I love associations to themes but how did you get to eraser and vehicle from the list?

keep sketching
Fletch

 

[M50Paull]

Ai, Pine Cone thanks

Fletch thanks.... I have a very wild imagination for sure but the eraser is related to the prompt Remove. Erasers are used to REMOVE mistakes hence my hand using my eraser to remove an error. The Construction vehicle is related to Rider or transportation vehicle in that construction workers use a Caterpillar to ride around the construction site ???? Also it was parked across the street this morning after having replaced a fire hydrant

 

[Jo Castillo]

Paul, the CAT is so well done. Yowza! (I was surprised, that is a word in Wurdle) I love the flow of the hand with the eraser. Mmmm. We went into Austin today to get the tires changed on Gene's trike, he can't do it himself anymore. More his eyes than his movement. We had a dead battery when we went to leave and our charger didn't work so had to get a neighbor. So we got tires, battery and had lunch with our daughter and got groceries in the next little town, Elgin, on the way home. I did sketch a bike at the trike repair so it can be #1 vehicle in the new Canson plain sketchbook, 5.5 x 8 inches, with the Acurite 03.

 

[AiArts]

#1 something I can eat... a fruit tart, done in directwatercolor

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, what a clever rendering of the tart. I'm hungry now and looking for something sweet!!

 

[AiArts]

While I was waiting for Iris to take a national biology test for college admission, I walked to a nearby park and did this sketch of heliconia in directwatercolor. It was not an easy sketching session. I was standing and hold all things with my hands...and my water container tucked in my belt purse. A tourist passed me by; he asked me if he can take a pic of me and my sketch. I said ok but I did not feel my sketch was in decent shape.

#2 flowers --a type of heliconia

 

[Joan T]

Paul, grazie for the new list! Nice hand with the eraser. Is remove supposed to be on the list? Always fun to catch construction vehicles in action.

Kay, I hope you join us.

Jo, sounds like you had a busy day. Good that you got a chance to sketch a bike too.

Ai, when does Iris get the test results. How did she become old enough to take a test for college admission? I still think if her as a little bit of a thing. That tart looks mighty yummy! The flowers came out really nice. I still have too much trouble standing and sketching.

1 - outside view of buildings - watercolors and ink

I played a little with Procreate. I have to watch some videos on using it. This is one of the chairs in our Venice apartment.

2- something to sit on - procreate

3 - vehicle. Watercolors and ink
4 - something made of wood

 

[AiArts]

Thanks so much: Jo, Joan, and Paul.

Jo: Fantastic sketch of a bike. That sure is such a challenging subject.

Joan: Iris turns 18 last July. She still has one more semester left for Grade 12. However, today she did the UK world-wide biology test, called BMAT. Once her score comes out in late Nov, she can submit that as a part of her portfolio for college. So far Iris wants to do her higher ed. in Thailand. Love your sketch from Venice. The brick work and gondola were top-notch. Fun and vivid love seat too.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, applause for sketching standing, almost impossible even with an easel. So nice of the flower. I can't believe Iris has grown up here! We have been at this for a while, eh?? Congrats on finishing the test, bet she did super.

Joan, Your building of the corte is outstanding and the gondolas and bridge. Amazing. Thanks again for taking us traveling.

Didn't get a sketch for here today, sketched the Inktober from a photo. I post them on Inktober here on creativespark and of course, my blog.

 

[M50Paull]

Jo: Nice sketch of bicycle makes me want to get on my bike.. well done

Ai: Making me hungry that tart looks delicious and I envy you that your flowers are still in bloom well done on both items

Joan: Someone in traveling through Italy, nice? So...... Yes, Remove was suppose to be on the list not sure how it got removed
Love the gondola Wow going digital, nice! Well done

 

[Joan T]

Ai, thanks!

Jo, grazie! I sketched today before the rain started, but didn’t get a photo done of it yet.

Paul, we are staying in Venice the whole time we are here. My husband is working with a few musicians. We’ve been here a few times so it us almost like coming home. Lol

 

[jmfletch]

Paul - Figured out my problem …the way my brain works the CAT is equipment not a vehicle even with vehicle written on the drawing.

Jo -Cool bike. I like how the straight handlebars look on bikes even if they seem impracticable. That seat does not look too comfy either. Nice pen work.

Ai - Yummy. Looks sweet and delicious. Pretty rendition of the heliconia. Neat that tourist wanted a picture of you as an artist as part of his memories of Thailand. An trying to come to grips with the idea that your little girl is taking college tests.

Joan -You should do a lesson on brickwork! Beautiful! Nice digi. In the gondola painting, I keep looking at the poles all in perspective the windows in perfect rows and all in a row perfect proportioned! I doubt I could be so precise with pencil. LOL

Keep sketching
Fletch

 

[M50Paull]

Paul - Figured out my problem …the way my brain works the CAT is equipment not a vehicle even with vehicle written on the drawing.

Jo -Cool bike. I like how the straight handlebars look on bikes even if they seem impracticable. That seat does not look too comfy either. Nice pen work.

Ai - Yummy. Looks sweet and delicious. Pretty rendition of the heliconia. Neat that tourist wanted a picture of you as an artist as part of his memories of Thailand. An trying to come to grips with the idea that your little girl is taking college tests.

Joan -You should do a lesson on brickwork! Beautiful! Nice digi. In the gondola painting, I keep looking at the poles all in perspective the windows in perfect rows and all in a row perfect proportioned! I doubt I could be so precise with pencil. LOL

Keep sketching
Fletch

I had intended to include the prompt remove but some how I removed it in the final list, sorry