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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Unique Sketching

When you sketch, every one is unique.  Even if you try to do the same sketch again, there will always be a bit of variation.  I used to do Christmas cards drawing the same image over and over.  I would make a pencil outline and go from there in ink.  One year I did a llama by a little church with the Andes in the background.  Each llama had a different look.  The next year I discovered a printer in Bolivia that printed with a block of wood with the sketch in metal and printed one at a time.  The ink was raised on the cards so looked hand drawn.  Pretty neat.  I never found a place in the States to do that.  If I had, I bet it would have been very expensive.

These drawings came to mind when I was looking at the items on Scavenger Hunt 580.  http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1463237
One of the items was "unique".

I sketched at the Austin Radiology Lab in Austin while waiting for Gene to get his bones scanned.  He went into get an injection and I started on a brass lamp I thought was pretty unique.  I didn't get it finished and went back to the main waiting room and was going to finish from memory.  I looked up and there were three more of the lamps in the big waiting room.  So much for unique.   I used a Micron 01 for the drawing and some Pitt brush pens for the color.  I didn't have yellow for the highlights and decided not to add that here at home.  

 Number 9, unique - brass lamp

Number 10, your favorite??? - There was a fish tank in the large waiting room.  When "fish" is on our list for sketching I never have any, so took this opportunity to call this my favorite to sketch.  On my iPhone with my fingers and the app Brushes.

When I cut a bluebonnet for my flower sketch three or four days ago I put it in one of the little red glasses I have.  It was on the coffee table.  I decided to look at it a bit closer this morning, thinking I would have to throw it out.  Instead, it is getting new leaves and has a bud on it.  I never knew it would live in water.  Hmmm.

The bluebonnet looks good.



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4 comments:

  1. Joan TavolottThursday, March 21, 2019 6:00:00 PM

    Love the story about the "unique" lamp. lol Great fish tank. Lots of interesting items in that waiting room.

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  2. Jo CastilloFriday, March 22, 2019 12:21:00 AM

    Joan, it was a unique waiting room. :-) They even have a helper on the floor to assist in filling in forms or get a wheelchair, walking you where you need to go. It was different. Thanks.

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  3. Jennifer RoseFriday, March 22, 2019 6:43:00 PM

    good idea to have a fish tank in a waiting room, gives you something to look at and draw in this case :)

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  4. Jo CastilloSaturday, March 23, 2019 7:15:00 AM

    Jennifer Rose, thank you. It is a beautiful aquarium. It is about 3 x 5 feet build in across the corner of the room. I couldn't see how they get into it to clean, etc. Interesting.

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