NedL
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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/
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 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.
Scavenger Hunt from Life #99: Jan 14- Jan 21
ankle
baseball or brown or bike
cube or club
diamond or dog
elephant
foot or fox
geometric
heart or horse
iron
jingle bell
keyboard
light bulb or lamb or letters
monster or mustard
number
oars
phone or platypus
quick
running
square or stripes or spade or Swiss
tractor or teeth
unicycle
vertebrae
wings or wheels
x-ray
yellow
zebra
These 26 hunt items are all associated with the number 26.
Challenge:
Use 26 lines.
Make your sketch in 26 minutes ( or 26 seconds! )
P.S.
I'll post the "associations" if anyone wants. Some are ridiculous or obscure. I went kind of crazy and overboard with it.
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/
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 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.
Scavenger Hunt from Life #99: Jan 14- Jan 21
ankle
baseball or brown or bike
cube or club
diamond or dog
elephant
foot or fox
geometric
heart or horse
iron
jingle bell
keyboard
light bulb or lamb or letters
monster or mustard
number
oars
phone or platypus
quick
running
square or stripes or spade or Swiss
tractor or teeth
unicycle
vertebrae
wings or wheels
x-ray
yellow
zebra
These 26 hunt items are all associated with the number 26.
Challenge:
Use 26 lines.
Make your sketch in 26 minutes ( or 26 seconds! )
P.S.
I'll post the "associations" if anyone wants. Some are ridiculous or obscure. I went kind of crazy and overboard with it.
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Very very cool 
I'm gonna try and figure out some of the ones I don't understand, but then I'll be back to ask about some... my favs right now make me a boringly predictable person, but they are NGC 26 (combining love of my horse with astronomy), and of course zebra stripes!!! But there are so many cool things on the list that they're all gonna be favs as I go along and learn more about them 
Luv your tractor and airplane - they're both very true to life yet a mischievous character seems to shine through in each somehow - amazing 
Fun view of the car being worked on, with depth coming in the darkening of the interior. Your joyous elephant sketch steals my heart, WOW, beautifully drawn and shaded - fantastic work 
and the fruits look happy and yummmmmy 
