Hunting for Number 252

I have sketched a little for Scavenger Hunt #252.  I used the Prismacolor Chisel Point marker and the Prismacolor Premier 08.  The chisel has a flat tip so you can make wide and narrow marks.  Fun for a change in pace.  The 08 is one of the fine tip marker/pen that I like as well.  I sketched in the Utrecht sketchbook with the recycled brown paper.  I have that sketchbook about half full.  Will I ever fill it up??  We shall see.

 

Number 1, basket with the challenge of making a blind contour version.  A blind contour drawing is to sketch something by looking only at the object and not at your paper.  It is not an easy task.  It sometime helps not to lift your pen or pencil from the paper, but on the basket, I didn't try that.

 Number 2, Bottle with label.  Number 3, smells good - popcorn and Number 4, round - an orange.

Number 5, with rind - a grapefruit from South Texas.  (thanks Esther!)

Number 6, feather, Number 7, water - the lake,  and Number 8, sky.

It was interesting.  One day last week when I was hosting the last Hunt, Gene and I were in the garage on our way to get in the car  and I found a feather on the floor.  I picked it up and told Gene, "I'm going to save this.  Someone puts feathers on the list once in a while for the Scavenger Hunts."  I put it on the newspaper recycling pile and told him to remind me to take it in when we got back.  Then when I opened the list for this Hunt, there was "feather".  Thanks to Joan.  :)  I saved the feather for next time, too.

I did paint with pastels a bit and have two paintings going.  A landscape of the view out our dining window, early morning, is almost finished.  It probably is finished but is sitting there to be studied and find out if it is ready. 

I visited Enid Wood's pastel class ( she is a wonderful pastel artist) on Monday and started another painting there of a blue door in Taos. I painted on it a little yesterday and today.   Maybe another four hours or so and it will be good to go, too.

There are two shows with the Austin Pastel Society soon, so need some new work.  The first one is in Georgetown at the library and I can hang three that I have done.  The other, the juried show, is in March but the deadline is Sunday for entries.  Hopefully I will like the landscape I did to enter in that show.  At least it doesn't have to be framed soon.

I need new paintings to change out at the Bastrop Fine Arts Guild and White Morpha.  I used to paint fast but now ......

We are going to Austin tomorrow afternoon, so not much time for painting.  We shall see how it goes.