Grapes of Wrath Sketch

Not exactly grapes of wrath, but grapes that were bad and needed to be thrown out.  I sketched on the porch yesterday.  I was irritated at two things.  I forgot to put out the flag and I'm not happy with the color on my sketch.  I really like green and purple and got green and black.  Neither was what I had in mind.  I think my water brushes are dirty up where they connect to the water.  I will run some alcohol through them and see if that works to clean them.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 204 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-204-nov-6-nov-18.9415/

Number 2 fruit - some grapes I was putting in the compost.  They were not looking their best.  The sketch is in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook, half a page.  I used an Ohuhu 0.2 yesterday and added the watercolor this evening.  

There is an exhibit that sounds super.  It is in Houston and up until February as I recall at the Museum of Fine Arts.  It is watercolors, Light and Air, by Winslow Homer on loan from Boston.  Info here:

https://www.mfah.org/art/exhibitions/of-light-and-air-winslow-homer-from-the-mfa-boston

Say a little prayer for Gene, he is not doing well.  Thanks.

Gene doing a favorite thing near Angel Fire, New Mexico, in 2009.

Happy 251st Birthday, US Marines

Today is the 251st birthday for the US Marines.  Very cool.  We have had some good times at the Marine Ball and with our own Marine, David.  You can click here to see some posts I  put up over the years here with more photos of family and David.  Here is a poster of "our" Marine from 2008.

Here is the message from  the Commandant of the Marine Corps today:

https://www.cmc.marines.mil/Birthday/

It will be Veterans Day tomorrow so here  is a shot of Gene and David.  Gene was on a missile crew in the Strategic Air Command when he was in the Air Force at the end of the Vietnam War.

Flag was on the Scavenger Hunt from life list.  I sketched at the dining table in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook.  Half a page.  I didn't have the flag folded exactly right, no  disrespect intended.  

Number 1 flag - with an Ohuhu 0.2 pen in the large sketchbook. 

Land, Flower and Human Sketches

Another beautiful day.  Wow, love this time of year.  Jennie and I walked around the almost dry lakes/ponds.  I went around once, haven't done that in ages.  Nice break from the porch.  Jennie went around 3 times so I sketched and waited for her on the last bench on the west side.

 For Hunt 203 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-203-oct-25-nov-6.9381/

Number 7 landscape - small tree and dry lake bed.

Number 8 flower - weeds probably, pale green with whitish tops.  

Number 9 human - Jennie with a crick in her neck.  Heh, heh.  In her Denver Broncos t-shirt.

These are in a new small sketchbook. 3.5 by 5.5 inches.   Watercolor Book CLWBO which seems to have good watercolor paper.  I just used a Sharpie.  The book doesn't say on it where it is from so I'm guessing China. Sigh......

 

Our morning walking companions.  We were closer at a couple of points, they sort of stuck with us.  When we were closer they were in the shade.