Sketching for Hunt 249

I can't believe we are on Scavenger Hunt 249.  Wow!  We started in the summer of 2006.  I started my blog about that time, too.  I have been much better doing a blog than I ever did keeping a diary or journal.  I always wrote for two weeks or so and then less and less often. It would only take about a month to forget all about writing.

Sketching, as I have said before, is a little like homework.  I have been very lax the last few weeks and now I am so out of practice.  It is amazing how quickly my skill goes away.  I will try now to get back on a regular schedule and keep up with sketching and painting.

I will have a student for painting tomorrow.  Maybe that will get me started.  I also ordered some shelves for the closet of my studio so that I can get my art supplies up off the floor.  It is always easier to start a project if everything is handy and ready to go.

I did manage a few sketches, yesterday and today, in my Utrecht sketchbook with a Prismacolor Premier 5 pen/marker.

Number 1, wooden.  This is my studio rocking chair.  You can see that I was struggling with every part of the sketch, perspective, lines, shading. 

Number 2, natural - the edge of a huge cedar tree full of berries in the yard.  Landscapes are easier.  "You" haven't seen this tree so I can fudge and you won't know.  Heh.  Number 3, man made.  the pillar and porch rail.  I did sketch while sitting on the glider on the porch.  How cool is that.  My first sketch there.

Yesterday I went to the Bastrop Fine Arts Guild and changed out my work there.  I didn't have anything new to put up, but these haven't been there for a while.  The aspens is a pastel, the cactus blooms are in acrylic, the restaurant is a pastel, the Rio Grande is an oil and the butterfly and flowers is acrylic. I like the simplicity of the Rio Grande painting.  It is calming and reminds me of New Mexico.   The restaurant scene has museum glass right against the pastel.  It looks like and oil painting.

I have two paintings in Carol Wiginton's Studio, too.

Guacamole Time is acrylic on panel and Pears on Red is pastel.

It was cloudy and drizzling this morning and the colors in this old oak tree were just great.  Very saturated color and will make a good painting don't you think?  This view is out our bedroom windows or the laundry room door.

For my art link today I will point you to the Daily Painters of Wyoming.  I met Mike Beeman and Ron Swearingen on wetcanvas.com.  Both are excellent painters and work in pastels, too.  Ron has a "how to" on his blog.  I like how he uses his pastels.  He hasn't been posting too recently as he moved and is remodeling his new house.  So he is getting settled and will be painting more again, too.