Scavenger Hunt #278 -- Aug 1 - 8, 2012

[Oban14]

Paul; Thank you for your nice words! I am with you in the candy store; I love looking at everyone’s sketches too!

Angela; Thanks for the explanation! You can make things look right allright! Checked out your website; looks good!

3) Cute; the babyshoes of my oldest daughter, combined with
4) Cozy; a babytoy of my youngest.
5) Challenge no. 2; The bottle and the drink. Obviously the bottle was sketched before opening it, the glas afterwards…..

Done in my A4 sketchbook and my dummy, with fine-liners.
C&C welcome! Greetings, Hanneke.

[Jo Castillo]

Ai, I hope you do get a bit of relaxing time. Ah, sad to forget the wine.

Angela, love the thread and the green paper.

Hanneke, thanks you. I think your landscape, water and boat is just lovely. Great sketch by the storage area with the wooden barrel and wood. Do you have a fireplace or wood stove? Your shoes and toy is precious. The drink and glass look perfect for my taste. Literally and visually.

Paul, we have had some adventurous times. Many years to document. Thanks.

I sketched on the porch with my iPad. Got to playing and stayed over an hour on this. It was done with my finger and the app Brushes.

Number 6, blue - a couple of glasses on the glass table.

[m50paul]

Jo: Thanks... Great digital art... your digital art is really coming along well.... love the color scheme..... very nice

Hanneke: Thanks... more great sketches.. love them both but particularly like the latte... mmm looks good... I had to google the latte don't think I have ever seen such sexy bottle.....

I have a couple more but will have to wait until I get home Monday to post...

[Jo Castillo]

Paul, your idea to Google the latte was a good one. I think I will have to look for some of that. Yummy sounding. I didn't think to look it up. My husband says latte in French means you paid too much for your coffee!

Thanks on the digital. It is fun and I was just using the colors I saw, the rug on the cement porch. Worked well.

[amotwell]

#3 Blue - mixed media on blue cardstock

[Eye]

Greeting everyone. We are back to Bangkok. The retreat was very nice. There was no major breakdown by the kids. I will post some sketches from there later.

Oban: Fantastic lines, esp. in the cozy still life. The Bottega bottle looks great together with the glass. The oak barrel behind the house is awesome. The boat is lovely.

Jo: I like your funky blue glass on the glass table.

Paul: Hello.

Angela: Your blue bottle mixed media is so cool. I love the white dab of reflection.

[Oban14]

Jo; Thank you! Your digital art is absolutely great, I like those glasses very much. Yes, we have a fireplace.
Angela; Nice bottle!

Paul and Jo;
as for the latte; there are several options.
1) Pure. Nothing wrong with that.
2) With ice. A cube ore crushed. With crushed ice very nice on a warm evening.
3) In a desert. Put some ice-cream in a bowl. Vanilla f.e. Chocolate can also be used. Combination of the two. Top that with some whipped cream and finish of with a dash of latte....

Won't be doing much more hunting this week. I have an eye on one of the challenges for August in the pen & ink forum and i am going to give that a try.

Greetings! Hanneke.

[m50paul]

Ai: hi

Amotwell: Nice bottle... like your mixed media, very nice..

Jo: Sounds like your husband is fluent in French

3 more for me:

3) Bikes ---- pencil ---- the beach seems to have tons of stuff for the hunt..
4) 2 legs --- pencil ---- lots of folks on the beach today, very hot and humid but the water was oh sooooo cool....
5) Car --- pencil --- my car, wasn't on the beach but it got me there... not sure the way I sketched it that it would pass a safety inspection but what can I say....

[Joan T]

I missed the last few days...glad to see some of you have been posting. I was sketching but didn't have the opportunity to post anything until today.

Paul - Nice job on the beach cart. Watching the boats get ready to go out in the am sounds nice. They do the work and you sip and sketch.

Angela - Great job on the sicissors and spools. Love the lines of the blue bottle.

Jo - Love the feeder and that tree. The glasses look great on the table.

Hanneke - Your skethc of the boat looks great! I love the composition and the sketching of the baby shoes and doll! Love the shape of that odd bottle.

Ai - Glad you had a nice time. Sorry you didn't have wine OR chocolate. I'm not sure which one I would miss more. Can't wait to see what you sketched.

1- red canoe - watercolors and ink
2 - green kyak
3 - blue kyak
4 - purple kyak
5 - brown wood

6 - comfy chair - sepia ink (I sketched this in the ladies room of the manor house at the arboretum near me.)

7 - calm garden - watercolors and ink

8 - pink - watercolors


9 - yellow flowers - watercolors

10 - orange plastic Easter egg - watercolors


11 - glass and bottle challenge - watercolors

[Joan T]

Paul - I see you snuck in a few more sketches while I was posting. I can see where you've been spending these hot days. Nice work!

[Eye]

Paul, Joan, Oban: Wonderful sketches.

Joan: Those kayaks are like gems.... gorgeous. Vivid plein air of the flower field. Comfy chair looks great. Welldone the whole set.

Paul: I love seeing your sketches... feel like following you to your beach retreat... Your Mercedes looks nice.

Oban: Wonderful lines... I hope you can still popping in to see our sketches.

[Eye]

The first part was some flowers from Iris's school ground.

#1 pink
#2 red


#3 orange



The Second part was done at the "BanHomTien" or The house of fragrant candle craft factory and cafe, Rajburi Thailand. This place has a cafe on the hill overlooking the west mountain of Thailand bordering Burma/Mienmar. There are old baby bikes collectible hanging from the cieling of the cafe.

#4 bike -- a three wheel trike.
#5 car -- sub. with a bike with two more training wheels




The left of the cafe was the mountain overlooking Burma (Thailand's west side border country)


#6 an unusual vehicle -- a motorbike with a colorful trunk bed



The next day we took the kid to the Scenery Vintage Farm, kind of like a giant petting zoo farm where the kids can feed the sheep and ride a tractor (the non-moving one).
#7 four leg -- a sheep
#8 cute -- Iris & Lily feeding the sheep
#9 more than 4 leg -- two sheep
#10 two leg -- a lady feeding the two sheep

[Eye]

More scenes from the same country farm

#11 bus






#12 brown -- a horse



#13 calm -- our resort where we stay
#13 a) done with a set of Japanese cheapo store brand hard pastel (Daiso shop... kind of like OneDollar store in the USA.)





#13 b) done with color pencils inside the resort's guest book.

[amotwell]

Part of the reason I dropped out of the hunts a year ago (more or less) was because I didn't have time to participate. I love all of your sketches and learn from each, but I am going to try to reserve my comments for things that really jump out at me. If, in turn, you don't want to comment on mine, I certainly understand.

Hanneke, you are too kind! Thanks for the encouragement.

This is probably my last sketch for this hunt.
#4 Purple – mixed media on purple cardstock, 4.5 x 6.5 inches
(Yes, I am getting rid of it. Sadly, it is too small. )

[artastic]

finally back, and have some sketches, again in my 6x6 sketchbook (and yes Ai I will take a picture of it)
a quick post, did not get a chance to colorize some of them,spent a crazy wknd shopping and visiting

1 purple- a metal sculpture on the wall at my cousins



2 green -grapes
3 red- my shoes
4 cup
5 brown- my purse



6 yummy -cookies
7 creative- a large decorative piece at my cousins
8 blue- another decoration at my cousins




9 bike- was watching the olympics individual pursuit
10 cut- a dog statues at my cousins
went for an early morning walk and added more
11 2 legged-seagull on the lamp post
12- 4 legged, found a few, a cat
13- unusual vehicle- motorcycle (got the top half of one)

my numbering goes askew now



14 stroller
more 4 legged animals- black squirrel and friendly rabbit