Cold and Rainy Sketch

It is cold and rainy here.  It is in the low forties Fahrenheit.  Our rain gauge is not working but I think we've had an inch and maybe a little more rain.  We need the rain, but I don't like the cold.

I sketched on my footstool and looked out the window between the sheds.  Water washes things and makes the colors rich and dark.  I used some old landscape colored Faber Castel brush pens which are missing the light colors.  Hmmm.  I used watercolor and the Ohuhu pens to finish up.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 140 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-140-dec-5-13.7469/

Number 3 free space - between the sheds.  The brownish red colors is probably the poison oak.  Looks nice!

 

Eat and Repeat Sketches

I finally got out the large Canson Mix Media sketchbook and sketched something I eat and a repeating pattern.  I used a few of the Ohuhu pens I have in a set.  Nice pens.  I have the Ohuhu mix media sketchbook and like it a lot, better paper than the Canson.  I mean it handles watercolor better.  I don't remember the cost for comparison in that regard.

 For Scavenger Hunt from Life 140  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-140-dec-5-13.7469/

Number 1 Something you eat or drink almost daily - I use lightly salted rice cakes for bread replacement as a gluten free option.
Number 2  Repeating design - in the rug.  Black, brown, reddish, tan and more

We have a couple more weeks of Home Health for Gene and hope then he can get back to PT at PT Solutions 3 times a week.  Once a week is not great and we didn't do too well while we had company.

Every day is smoother.  Can't decide about decorating for Christmas.  Hmmmm.  

We still have lots of doctor appointments between the two of us. Gene is getting close to being the Six Million Dollar Man.  They put a heart monitor chip in his chest last Wednesday.  A regular monitor doesn't work with the Deep Brain Stimulators.  Hopefully it will keep tabs on him and is supposed to last for 2-4 years.  It has an app on his phone.  Can't tell if it is working at all.  We have a Telemed next Wednesday, maybe they can then tell us how well it is communicating.  They did it at the Heart Hospital in Austin.  Long day for a 15 minute procedure.  We left at 11:30 a.m. and with dinner on the way home we got back about 7 p.m.  We were at the hospital from before 1:00 p.m to almost 4:30 p.m.

More Grand Sketches

I sketched a bit more, the kids went to the playground and found some shells in the dry lake bed so now I have some small sea shells, too.  Hmmm.

 

 

For Scavenger Hunt 138  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-138-nov-19-27.7435/

Number 6 wheel - a little monster Bat-mobile

Number 7 pumpkin or pineapple 

The great grands were so pleased to have provided me with items for the Hunt.  The rocks, wheel and pineapple were all their "finds".  They sketched well but have short attention spans like me.

I told Owen that he was Great Grandson #4.  He said, "No, I'm 5 years old."  I explained that Oliver was GGs#1 because he is the oldest.  "No, he is not 1 he is 8 years old."  I explained it again and he argued with me.  He of course figured it out quickly but kept arguing with me about the ages and order of births.  He is a curious and smart kiddo.  I think in a way he is like Gene, will argue against anything for the sake of argument, like a debate team!