It was a long day, sort of. We went to play golf in Deming, New Mexico, with friends, Gen and Charlie. It is a fifty mile drive, so that was two hours gone from the day. We started about 10:00 a.m. and then went to a late lunch at a steak house. Beautiful day .. no rain! The photo of the little cloud is to show a non cloudy day here, for a change.
The sketch is the last for Scavenger Hunt #8. A new one will start tomorrow. I finished 19 of 26 and three challenges, so pretty good for me. It was a 9 day hunt. A learning experience for sure. One of the challenges was to sketch "Simplicity". Nitsa made a face from the letters and one lady sketched a rose. Many different ideas. I have been thinking about it for the week. This afternoon when we got back, I went out on the patio to do a crossword and have a coffee. It just came to me, Scrabble. We don't even have a Scrabble game here, so I had to look it up on-line to refresh my memory on the value of the letters and look at the board. Then after several starts I settled in on this sketch and hurried to get it up tonight before the end of the hunt. I did it in the little Cannon sketchbook with a Uniball pen. About twenty minutes. The pen is not good for sketching as it bleeds and is hard to control. I will put it somewhere other than with my sketching equipment. Maybe in the desk here and leave it behind when we go.
This house is evidently owned by an artist. There are several watercolors and pen and ink drawings on the walls with the owners name. I feel it is the woman, but that is just a guess. There are some wall hangings from South and Central America. It feels like home here, very comfortable. They are moving back in when we leave so it won't be available next year. Guess we will look near Cloudcroft or go to Canada or.....
I didn't finish the Orange Door, maybe tomorrow. That house has such weird little additions that the roof doesn't look right, even when you look at it in person. Joanna and Gene both questioned my perspective. Sigh, as Joanna says.
3 comments:
You just have a unique perspective! Heh heh. And, we love it.
I did not question your perspective, I just said the angles were a bit off, but it is a very old house. I know it was there when I first moved to Magdalena in about 1946, I do not think they had 90% angles then.
Thanks Joanna and Gene. I will decide what to do, sometime. :-) I'll think about that, tomorrow!
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