Regina picked it up for me at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pretty cool! It is about 6 x 8 inches with 200 sheets of nice paper for pen.
So, my sketches for today are number 1, close up of an eye. Gene's eye. I started to do the page of eyes and noses, but we just had the two noses and mine. I was drinking wine so didn't want to go stand in the bathroom to do my nose. Or stand up at all! Number 2 is my hand holding something round. The eye and noses took about 5 - 10 minutes and the hand about 10 minutes. Without erasing I messed up the little finger. I had a very difficult foreshortening problem with that. I could see it better after I finished. Ha.
Number 3, the negative space around a plant. I did the only plant in a pot. It would have been more of a challenge with more leaves up high over the rim. Number 4, bottle top, off a water bottle. Number 5, Rabbits in the yard having a conversation. This is a substitute for a piggy bank, the only one we have is an aluminum beer bottle and Lacey, host, said she wanted piggies. So, I just sketched the cottontails outside under the window. And number 6, something on the fridge, a toothpick holder. About 15 minutes, total. All the sketches were with a Micron 05 pen, burnt umber color.Not a very exciting start to my new sketchbook, but it is a beginning. I hadn't sketched for a couple of weeks. Hard to believe. Something I shouldn't skip. I will sketch pretty steadily when we get to Silver City next week. That is where I discovered the Scavenger Hunts last year and posted my first sketch on July 22, Hunt #2. I hadn't realized that I only missed the first one. Whew! They have kept me sketching and trying new ideas for sketching.
The Scavenger Hunts have been fun. A different host for each nine days and a list of 26 items to sketch along with some challenges. Each artist has a different style and ideas of what to sketch and why they sketch the way they do. Fun to get to know them and be encouraged in your endeavors. I have to go post my sketches there now.
Later.......
6 comments:
Ooh! Very nice sketch book! Earlier this spring we were in South Texas and I got a new sketch book. I also got to go to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to see an exhibit from the NY Met Museum - it was a great show. I am envious of your new sketch book.
Thanks, bag blog. I'm envious that you got to go to the show in Houston, Regina did and said it was great. I hope to fill the sketchbook. :)
Jo
Hi Jo. It's hard to believe, but I have been there for all the hunts. Hopefully I will be on the last one if and when it ever comes. I hope it is a long way off.
If Regina went to NYC, she needs to tell about it! Maybe she can email you something that you could put on the blog? Nice sketches. I like the negative space plant, and that IS Gene's eye, for sure. I 'rekornize' him.
Leslie, Thanks for the nice comments on the sketches. It is certainly not my forte, but I keep at it.
Gene, for sure. The museum was the highlight of Regina's trip, I'll ask for a post. :)
Jo
Jeanne, I thought you had been to all the Hunts, but I didn't have time to check. Pretty cool. You can see a dramatic improvement in your sketches. That is such a good feeling. My style and level stays pretty much the same, I'm faster now, though. :)
Jo
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