Showing posts with label onion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label onion. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2022

Surprise Sketches

 The Patchogue Sketch Club met at the library this week to do some sketches...but our subjects were a surprise. Each sketcher put an item/items into a brown bag with materials to sketch with. You were only supposed to use the materials that were in the bag. 

The first bag I picked had a wooden statue of a bird. Inside the bag were assorted pens and a marker all in the brown family. Only one was water-soluble and it turned pink when you added water. It was a challenge to get the bird to look brown. Many layers later this was what I was able to achieve.


The second bag I selected contained a large yellow onion, a small round rock and a clam shell. But the sketching materials were a red, blue and green oil pastel...no yellow! I couldn't get the onion to look like an onion, but I gave it my best shot.





Saturday, August 14, 2021

Still Life with Veggies

 For the last few days I didn't get out to sketch. Between physical therapy, waiting for a dryer repair, and the heat I barely squeaked out some time for the pool. But while waiting for the repairman I put together a few things from the fridge for a still life.



Saturday, November 7, 2020

Still Life Trio

 Sometimes I just don't get out to do a sketch...yes, that happens. I had a bit of car trouble so I decided to stay home until I was able to have my car looked at. Of course I had to paint something...so I looked around and found the last of my juicy tomatoes from the farmstand. The onion and garlic jumped in and I had what I was looking for. Please enjoy!




Thursday, June 20, 2019

30 x 30 - Direct Watercolor - Day 20 - Still Life

Rather than driving around in the rain and looking for another view to paint from my mobile studio I decided to do a  still life. I dug through the fridge to see what I could find that had some color. The garlic was hard to do since it is so light but it was fun to play with the colors in the papery skin.