Whiskey Sketch

Whiskey reminds me of Jenny Reynolds. https://www.jennyreynolds.com/  One of her old songs is Whiskey & Pie.  Fun.  She is a great performer and person.  She plays a mean guitar, too.

Jenny Reynolds, Whiskey & Pie - https://youtu.be/yE94UAC2rYw?si=EiKBQUkLw2lJC_Wb

Yesterday evening I thought I could do a sketch and Gene could draw and write on a white board.  I got out my pastel pencil set thinking that would be an easy way to sketch at the table and not make a big mess.  It worked but pastel pencils on Pasteboard is slow and you have to go over it like colored pencil.  You know I like fast and done.  I had to finish very late after Gene went to bed.  I wanted to work on it again this morning but it didn't happen so this has no background or shadows.  I should have worked on a colored background.  (When I wipe this off I will have a background for the next sketch. Ha.)

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 197 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-197-aug-12-aug-25.9212/

Number 2 whiskey - a fancy bottle of Four Roses.  The bottom should be slightly larger as the top is square and it turns to round as it goes down.

My pastel pencils is a big set of Derwent pastels.  75 in the box I think.  Even though it is so many pencils there is not a good variety of colors.  No white or I have lost it.  Most haven't even been sharpened since I got the box which I've had for years.  I just don't like the "coloring" like with colored pencils.  Artists like them for detail, but I don't do much detail.  

I need to do a "real" pastel.  Thinking about it...... 

Cooler Sketch

My last sketch for this Hunt is the "cooler" I use for ice cream when I pick up groceries.  It used to be for my lunch and drinks when we traveled for plein air painting or just running around.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-196-jul-31-aug-12.9181/

Number 10 cooler - in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook.  About half a page with a Micron02 and watercolors.

The cooler is not that wonky, it is just my perspective.  I sketched on the porch.  Slightly warm but it was about 730 a.m. so not bad.  The last I looked it was 100º in the car about noon.  Gene had PT and then we got a Chef's Salad at the Roadhouse Bastrop.  (We have a new Texas Roadhouse here, not be confused with that.  We haven't been yet.)  The salad is huge so we share with a side of fries and a blueberry milkshake that we also share.  Nice lunch.

Gene and Joanna walked by the lakes the other day, well, Joanna pushes Gene in the wheelchair.  He is still unable to walk unassisted and not on the bumpy trail for sure.  Gene brought me a flower.  It was so tiny and cute.  Turns out it is a Texas Frogfruit.  https://txmg.org/hendersonmg/plant-library/texas-frogfruit/ 

 

Garbage Footwear Sketches

It was my day out.  It was very warm, but I parked in the shade and rolled my windows down.  Not too bad with a breeze.  The item on the list was "garbage".  Fun to find this dumpster overflowing with stuff.  The house is being updated.  The whole inside was gutted.  The outside looked pretty good.  Roof looks new but the screens on the windows were bad.  

Then I went to Jersey Mike's for a tuna sandwich lunch.  They have gluten free bread.  It was good, but I like Schlotzkey's bread better.  I like the tuna and bread at New World Deli in Austin.  So yummy.

 Number 8, garbage - Both sketches are in the Canson Mixed Media sketchbook, large paper.

Number 9, footwear - a girl in a sundress and boots caught my eye.  I got her out of proportion.  The people go through quickly so I sort of sketch a combo and memory if you do more than one person.  The worker was a woman, this looks like a guy with a weird hat or ???

At any rate it was good to be out and about.  I brought Gene a Dairy Queen sundae and a Blizzards for the caretaker, Shellie and myself.  Gene had a pretty good day, too.  We both need a break once in a while.