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.  
 

 

 

Another Tree

I am behind on my sketching so decided to sketch this tree yet another time.  I wonder how many sketches of it I have - with leaves or without and in a group or alone.  There are two trees close together and I thought I would do both so left room for the other.  I got tired of making leaf marks so this is what you get.  We also have to go to Austin again to the eye doctor.  We went Tuesday to Gene's oncologist.  Makes for long days and the traffic is getting so bad.  

 For Scavenger Hunt from Life 186 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-186-mar-22-apr-3.8844/

Number 1 tree - From the porch in the large Canson Mixed Media sketchbook with Micron 03

 

There aren't many bluebonnets this year but Jennie took photos of the grand-dogs in a little clump at the end of the back porch.  Gray doggie is Chewie and the black one is Reese.