Plein Air Sketch

 I sketched outside, plein air,  this morning while Gene was in physical therapy.  I had the day off.  It was starting to get pretty warm but I sat in the shade on the foundation of the post holding up the awning of the buildings on the other side of the patio.  There is the one lone umbrella but several tables that I left out.

I glanced at my list and somehow thought that "umbrella" was my "U" word and "L" was "lamppost".  Well it wasn't.  I adapted the sketch to fit the list.  

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 163  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-163-jun-19-jul-01.8038/

 

 Number 3 Free Space (umbrella?) and Number 4 Tree (lamppost?)

This sketch is in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook, 1/2 page.  I used Ohuhu pens and waterbrushes and watercolors.

 

Yellow Not My Favorite

Why did I put Yellow on the list?  I always have a hard time finding yellow in our house.  It has to be tools or food.  We haven't had bananas lately.  I sketched with my Apple Pencil and the app, Brushes, on my iPad so I could have color without dragging out other stuff like watercolors or pastels.  Lazy me.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 163  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-163-jun-19-jul-01.8038/ 

 

Number 2 yellow - the prune can is mostly yellow.  Hard to make perfect ellipses with my shaky hands.  Fun to try anyway.

Physical therapy today, pick up groceries and have the wasps and ants sprayed.  Always something going on. 

Finally a Sketch

 I hadn't done a sketch for the new Hunt that I'm hosting.  Not good.  I sketched in the living room in the Conda sketchbook with a Micron 03 pen, freehand.

 

For Scavenger Hunt 163  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-163-jun-19-jul-01.8038/

Number 1 under - stuff under the table top

Our company is gone so quiet here.  Hot outside so not much going on.  

The College World Series is on today.  May be the last game.  The finals are with Coastal Carolina and LSU, the best two of three.  LSU won last night with a score of 1-0.  If they win today it is all over.  Our son-in-law will be happy!  Coastal Carolina had won 26 games in a row ... hard to keep that up.  Our Texas State shut them out 1-0 earlier in the year.  Yay!  It is hard for the number 2 team .. as Tiger Woods always said it is "first loser".   I'm always sad for College baseball to be over.  We don't watch professional sports.

 

Hunting for 12 Days

We extended the length of the Scavenger Hunts from 9 to 12 days.  We are fewer sketchers and hardly ever sketch all 26 items.  We have more time and don't have such quick turn arounds on making the list.  

For the last item on Scavenger Hunt 162  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-162-june-7-19.8019/  I'm hosting Hunt 163.

 Number 4 free space - a diner at the Roadhouse Paige when we went to lunch the other day.

We are going out again today probably to the diner in Manor.  See how that goes.  Fun to have David and Lisa here.

Lisa and I walked around the lake yesterday and I took photos.  They look like they have more water than they do.  

 

West lake looking south. Water should be almost to the big tree.
 

West lake looking south, water should be to the little trees and it is way over by the far tree line.