Hunting Wood and Pipes, Photos

As mentioned, I am hosting Scavenger Hunt 297.  Come on over and sketch with us.  No pressure, post or not, visit or not, just have fun.

 Number 3, wooden - a wine glass puzzle that Cole gave me.  Thanks!

Number 4, faucet and  Number 5 pipes under the sink.

These sketches were done with the new Pentel markers and a touch of colored pencil for the white.  It is always good for me to use different media.  When I use some different tool it makes me think about what I am doing and why.  Sometimes when I rely on just painting and not thinking, I fall into old bad habits.  On rare occasions I hope to get in the zone and not think about what I am doing and that can be super, but for painting, not for practice.  As mentioned many times, though, I am a lazy person and if I don’t pay attention, I tend to fall into old patterns of not looking at perspective or values, etc.  New tools make me think and practice efficiently.

We have had a visitor lately at the lakes.  We were thinking hawk, but he seems larger.  Today I got a fair photo or two with my point and shoot and he appears to be an osprey.  The lakes are low and probably the fishing for the birds is good.  There have been white egrets and a darker  bird similar to an egret, we haven’t been able to identify for sure.  Remember you can click on the photos to enlarge them, except when I post from the iPad.  Hmmm.

The osprey atop a dead tree with the telephoto.

A cropped version.  That is as close as I can get with my little camera.

The lake cropped, looks like some crows and the egret looking bird to the right.

Here is link to a video of an osprey fishing by arkive.org. It catches several fish at once and a huge one that it can barely lift.  Thanks, Jeff.   Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nA3LtXnNIto?feature=player_embedded