Scavenger Hunt 254 ended yesterday. I'm posting the last couple of sketches today and hope to sketch for Hunt 255 soon. We have some new sketching artists and it is fun to see all the different styles and scenes from around the world.
Ai, in Thailand, sketched on her bicycle ride the other day. Pretty cool. She hasn't posted the sketches yet, but you can see them on the Scavenger Hunt. She is a working mom with two small girls and still manages to go out and sketch with a group quite often.
I sketched in the Utrecht recycled paper sketchbook with a Prismacolor Premier 08 fine point marker/pen. (click on the sketch to see all the photos larger)
Number 6, fruit - blueberries and Number 7, watch. I thought I had posted this and made a couple of scribbles with a red marker, trying out the point.
I went with
Regina Burchett last Friday to see
Will Klemm's exhibit at the Wally Workman Gallery. He does such beautiful pastel paintings as I mentioned before. Then we went to Regina's and painted.
Charlie, the art critic, came in to see what we were doing. I was taking photos of the French horn so I could do a painting. I never finished the last one I started at Regina's.
It is very good for artists to get together and paint. It is inspiring and a boost to your creating side. As I said above, sometimes I don't finish what I start, but any time you paint you learn something. I was trying some velour mat board given me by
Rae Andrews (I think, when APS gave me the welcome home, after the fire, art supplies) At least she is the one that uses velour the most. The jury is still out on it. Not enough time to see if I can add more layers or not. I wasn't going to post it, but what the heck. I worked on it for about two hours with a break or two.
This piece of velour has some marks on it, so I won't finish this, but will try adding more detail and just feeling how the velour works. I think it might be fun, especially for flowers or something a little more abstract with lack of detail. Many artists like it for animal portraits, though. This start is 14 x 11.
Here are a couple of different views of the lake and our house from the lake side. The lakes came up a bit with that last 5 inches of rain. We had another half inch night before last. Yahooooo!
8 comments:
I didn't know you could do pastels on velvet...interesting. Yes, painting with other artists is great...you get a different kind of energy when you paint with other people. Good to see the photos of your property! Enjoy!
Hi Joan, the velour is interesting. This is a piece of velour mat board. Someone makes velour paper but I don't remember who at the moment. This seems easier to deal with as it is not flimsy like paper might be.
Our house is becoming home very nicely. Thanks.
Your home and the area around it are lovely.
Your art is amazing.
Take care,
Judi
Was wondering about the red scribbles. :-) Thanks for explaining.
Judi, hi there! Thank you so much. It is nice to be painting again.
Joanna, you never know about my scribbles. Good way to start a painting, not so good for sketches. Ha.
Judi, hi there! Thank you so much. It is nice to be painting again.
Joanna, you never know about my scribbles. Good way to start a painting, not so good for sketches. Ha.
Jo - I hadn't seen the photo of Charlie playing the French Horn.. :-)
Great photos of your home and the lakes. So nice there, and glad your lakes are filling up so you can enjoy them before the summer sojourn.
Hi Regina! Charlie is such a great company when we paint. I do like that dog! We had one more inch of rain after that big rain. Hope we get some more this week.
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