Hunt 118 Sketches Woven, toes

This evening I did a few sketches for Scavenger Hunt 118. As most of you know, the Scavenger Hunts are on wetcanvas.com. One artist makes a list of twenty-six items. The items are everyday things that you can find in or around your home. We sketch from real life in any media and the Hunt lasts nine days. You can sketch as many or few as you want and post them, no critiques. You can sketch them in any order, but we number them so we have an idea of where we are in the Hunt. You can comment or not on the other sketches. You know me, I love chatting so I try to comment on all the drawings. Some artists take time and make finished drawings, others sketch quickly. It is interesting to see the different techniques and ideas that the artists come up with. Right now one artist is taking sculpting so we can sculpt our items this Hunt. Always a challenge or two are thrown in such as using your hand that is not your normal drawing hand, blind contour drawings, upside down or any thing that will make us think and keep sketching. We usually give the amount of time and media used. Ocasionally photos are posted of our items. Artists from around the world take part so we see some unusual items.

I usually sketch in ink with the idea of seeing my item better and not having to correct my lines. I think this will help my painting. I'm not sure, but I do sketch quicker and when I put my mind to it, I sketch to my satisfaction. If I don't think or am not interested in what I am sketching I just plow in and then I have poor perspective and form. These Hunts have kept me sketching almost daily. I started on Hunt number 3 and this is number 118.

This is number 2, woven - a little weaving from Chimayo, New Mexico. The main color is turquoise, with red, white and black. Number 3 and 4, knees and toes. These were done in a new Canson Field Sketchbook, 7 x 10 inches, with just a regular Pilot ball point pen. About thirty minutes total.

Number 5, map - a Texas road map. Same equipment about 5 - 10 minutes. You can see I started to lay it flat, but I always sketch the same angle, so I stood it up on edge. A little different, but left the first lines.

I also painted on an ocean scene today with pastels. I'm not pleased with it. I was painting while using my Flip video camera. I think I was more concerned with the time and video than with my painting and will probably just wipe it off and start over. That is not always a bad idea as I had the practice, warm up today and can go from there. I haven't done many seascapes and this is the first in pastel.

Maybe I will get it done tomorrow. I will try to use the Flip again so I can post a short video. It takes about an hour to upload a 5 minute video and it takes me longer than that to edit the video down to that length and put a voice over with what I did. So don't hold your breath while I attempt to learn new things. I used to say, "Grandma is slow but she is old." Well, now that is me.