Hunt 122 Ink Sketches

We were watching TV, avoiding news.  I think we had on an old Law and Order.  Gene used to have to read a newspaper every morning.  Sometimes in Canada we would be far from a town and get the paper in the afternoon.  He would save it to look at in the morning with his coffee.  In fact, Gene taught himself to read by reading the paper behind the wood stove when he was about 4 years old.  So now with no printed paper he usually watches some morning news.  Today we just watched the weather and a few headlines.  Nothing new....so.  There is a paper, the Austin American Statesman, but it is like a day old, they send it out in the late evening so we don't buy it.  Some therapist on TV was saying that people that are addicted to news just like to be miserable.  Made us laugh. 

I sketched in the Canson Drawing, 5.5 x 8 inch, sketchbook with the Acurit 3 pen that I keep with it.  I wanted to use regular paper.  I need to get another regular paper larger sketchbook.  I will put it on my wish list. 

Number 5 decal - this Tunnel to Towers decal from 2022 is stuck on the BookFactory sketchbook that I just finished
Number 6 juice - my favorite V8 Energy in the orange/pineapple flavor.  So good.  They are a treat, not for every day.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 122  https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-122-jul-14-jul-22.7060/ 

 

 

I finished sketching so did a bit of doodling.  You can see different things if you turn it. 

I see a dog begging in the first.  A dragon looking around over his shoulder in the second.  A sort of flying Jumbo in the third and a frog on a rock/plant in the last.  What do you see??

I need to clean up my studio so that I will be more inclined to paint .... maybe tomorrow.  I did get some new frames for some paintings but will use those when David is here so he can learn Gene's method.

 

 

 

 

Sketch and Zentangle

Sometimes sketching requires too much brain work.  I resort to doodles or zentangles as they are called now.  Less thought required.

For the Scavenger Hunt I did a quick sketch in the ArtStreet sketchbook with a Micron 02 pen while using my footstool for a table.  The vacuum had not been put away after the family left calling to be sketched.  I started in the middle top of the area I had and ran out of room at the bottom of the page.  The main part of the cleaner had to be shortened to fit the page.  Poor planning.

Number 4 vacuum - the vacuum is rarely used.  We were vacuuming up broken glass.

For Scavenger Hunt from Life 51

https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-51-dec-25-2022-jan-2-2023.4941/ 

I wanted to do something while watching TV but no more sketching.  Doodle it was.....

 We had leftovers.  So good.  I need to make some more tortillas.  I packaged some of the cookies for David and our friend Kathy.  They miss the biscochitos so much.

Have a good rest of the week.  It is warmer here and will be warm for New Years Eve.

Here is a fun link to read about biscochitos and posole in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

https://www.santafe.org/blog/post/dig-into-the-roots-of-santa-fes-winter-cuisine/

Behind on Posting Sketches

I couldn't come up with a good title for this.  I'm behind on posting, sketching and very much on painting.  I have been keeping up on wetcanvas.com with sketching there when I do them.  But that is a little like procrastinating as I post and read and surf and ......  You  can see I started the sketching for Scavenger Hunt 360 back on May 19.  I also see that I haven't posted since May 16.  Wow!  I won't bore you with my lazy excuses.

I have been listening to the UT Baseball games.  The Longhorns were in Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament.  They won the first two games and seemed to be playing well.  Yesterday they only had to beat Oklahoma State once to get to the championship against TCU.  They just couldn't pull it off and lost the first game and had to play again as it is a double elimination tournament.  They played an almost identical game and lost it, too.  Oklahoma State and TCU play the championship today at 4:30, I think.  The Longhorns will be in a Regional on the way to Omaha for the NCAA Championship they hope.  Joanna says it is good in a way that they don't have the Regional in Austin as the Horns have been playing better on the road ... well, until yesterday.  Ha.  Hope they can play on and get to Omaha. They players deserve that reward.  Sigh....

This is what I do when I listen to the games on the internet or am on hold on the phone.  Doodles are now called Zentangles, so here is one I did yesterday in between keeping score, drinking coffee, etc.  You can see one peeking through from the other side of the paper, too.

 The doodles look different depending on the way you hold them.  This is upside down and looks like a chicken or bird to me.

This way I see a fish with the head to the right.

 Right side up I see a small bird looking to the right and a turkey or turkey buzzard to the left or maybe Carmen Miranda.

This looks like a different fish going left.

This was done with a pencil.  I usually use a pen.  What do you see?

As was editing this I decided to add the zentangle from the other side of the page done in ink.  Also done during a baseball game I see.  Ha.

This one reminds me a little of the La Morenada dancers in Bolivia for Carnival.  You can see some on this link.  I see a squatty bird of some sort when I turn it upside down.  The dog looks like some bird with a worm.   I won't continue on with that, though.
http://www.rutahsa.com/boli-13.html

And for the Scavenger Hunt Sketches for Hunt 360  http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1351063&page=3

Number 1, water;  Number 2, outside animal - egrets and crows; Number 3, tree
These were done with a Prismacolor pen.

Number 4, outside edible - dandelion ( I hear they are edible) and rosemary.  These were done on my iPad with Art Rage and the Truglide stylus.  It has a AAAA battery.  I had not seen one of those before, pretty small!

Next Number 5, liquid - my coffee and Number 6, raw food - Gene's candy-loupe which are supposed to be sweeter than cantaloupe but I couldn't tell the difference.  Maybe because I'm not fond of melon except for watermelon.

And today for the finish of Hunt 360, Number 7, flower - the mimosa blooms in the neighbor's yard and the little yellow flowers in our yard.  They are all over the grass area and open in the morning and close in the evenings.  They are bright yellow and the blooms are about the size of a 50 cent piece and about 10 inches off the ground.

Finally, Number 8, garden tool - Gene's wheelbarrows with the challenge of doing a sketch in one minute, three minutes and 15 minutes.  I couldn't keep going after 12 minutes on the last.  I was done with the wheelbarrows!!

For an art link or two:

You may remember I was working on a tonal painting with Enid.  Richard McKinley talked about the same subject on his blog.  The post is worth having a look.

http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/art-demos-techniques/the-quality-of-color-a-tonalist-approach

I found this article interesting along the same lines.  It is just so interesting how colors change by what they are placed next to.  Richard calls it "simultaneous contrast".

http://www.artistsnetwork.com/medium/pastel/the-contrast-effect-important-rules-for-landscape-painting



My post here has some photos of the same idea:
http://jocastilloartblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-value.html

You can click on my home page above and then put "instruction" in the search box on the left and find many posts with my instruction experiences.

Have fun!