Spring Break Family Fun

 We had all our family here this past week.  It was amazing to have all 19 of us together.  We have 2 grandkids and 19 great grandkids.  Doesn't seem possible.  The first day was just two greats so we sketched.  After everyone got here the kids were mostly outside.  They had their Easter Egg hunt on Tuesday I think.  Went to the playground by the firehouse.  Played disc golf with Uncle Larry.  We had New Mexico food and brisket.  So wonderful to see all the kiddos.  We hadn't seen the last two since we aren't traveling.

We did sketch a little with the the first bunch.  I post my three first and then the kids.  They tried to do items from the Scavenger Hunt with me.

For Scavenger Hunt 187 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-187-apr-3-apr-15.8897/

Number 1 cup - my Christmas cup this year.  We think the 4 on it means aisle 4.  I want to sketch it in pastel.  Maybe one day.  In the new Ohuhu smaller sketchbook with Ohuhu pens and watercolor.
Number 2 useful - a plastic basket to hold brochures at PT In the larger Ohuhu Mix Mecia sketchbook with Micron 03 and watercolors.
Number 3 vehicle - in the Ohuhu Mix Media sketchbook with Micron 03 at PT... oh the perspective.  Front and back not too bad.  Middle is ???

David sketched one of my Kachina dolls in colored pencil.

 

Christy sketched on paper from the Little Fingers sketchbook.

Lucas sketched in the Little Fingers sketchbook.  He draws really well.  He did some others but they weren't from life.  The hanging basket was a good challenge.

 

Owen sketched in a Fabriano Masters Touch watercolor sketchbook and tore the pages out to put on the fridge. He did the cutest chicken but it is so light yellow that it wouldn't show in the scan. 

They did some chalk art outside, too.

 Anyway lots of fun.  The house is sooooo quiet now.   

Fire Hydrant Watercolor

Yesterday was my day out.  I met Joanna and spent time with her so didn't sketch much.  I did stop by the fire hydrant in front of the Super 8 on the way to meet her.  It was good to have a daughter and mom time.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life  
Number 5 fire hydrant - sketched with pencil in the Ohuhu Mixed Media sketchbook and added color at home.  I didn't take a photo.  The hydrant was so rusty that I couldn't tell the color.  I guess it may not have been painted like the one at the juice place I sketched a few weeks ago.   I wondered about them leaving the hydrants unpainted.  

It was a nice day.  A bit windy.  The Longhorns baseball team played Texas State in Austin.  Horns won for the first time in a few years.  They have been playing two Tuesday games every season, playing one in San Marcos and one in Austin.  Horns have been winning in San Marcos and then the Bobcats have been winning in Austin.  So the streak was broken.  Horns won both games this season.  

Markers and Ink Sketches

Our weather has been between late winter and late spring this week.  Cool and then hot with no in-between.   Sort of missing regular spring.  But ... nice to sit on the porch and watch the folks out walking.  We saw a couple on horseback today but no photo or sketch.  Gene was having speech therapy also on the porch.

I sketched yesterday in the Marker Sketchbook with Blick gray markers.  Number 1 in the new Hunt for "spring flower".  I bought a new geranium.  It is a bit fuller than my sketch.  I'm sure it will be bedraggled like the last one in no time.  I ordered it with groceries and they had potting soil on the website.  I ordered it too without thinking about size.  So I got one small geranium and like a 20 pound sack of soil.  Never thought about that.

For Scavenger Hunt 186 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-186-mar-22-apr-3.884

Today I did these three.  Number 2 fits in hand, Ohuhu pens

Number 3 statue or figurine - the plastic owl on a pole that is supposed to keep birds away from the windows.

Number 4 building - next door.  I have painted the shed in pastel and called it a fishing shed as it is by the water.  Seems to actually be a tool shed.

These three are on one page in the large Canson Mixed Media sketchbook.