Seashells

 The Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt had sea shells as an item to sketch. I did my setup as a continuous line and then added watercolors to the sketch.

Things I Collect

One of the prompts for the Scavenger Hunt on CreativeSpark.com was things you collect. I have a big jar of seashells of all kinds. Some I've bought but most of them I've collected from various places.

Seashells

Last Wednesday the Patchogue Sketch Club had seashells as our theme. Here are a few of mine from my ever-growing collection. 

Sketchbook Revival Part IV

 

I'm pretty much done with the lessons I wanted to do in Sketchbook Revival. Emma Freeman had a great lesson using fabric and assorted items to make a "Stitched Wabi Sabi Fabric Scroll." I searched around and found a piece of fabric with a sort of quilted design. Then I added some stitching, some seashells, a piece of birch bark, and some beach glass. I will have to replace the long, thin shell. It fell out and I can't find it. I did the fabric strip shorter than Emma suggested because I wanted to attach it to a page in my Sketchbook Revival sketchbook. 

Roisin Cure did a lesson on "Beach Bodies." I took a workshop with her at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Porto, Portugal a while ago. She is really good. I watched her lesson but really didn't want to follow her exact photo for the lesson so I passed on doing it. However we had a godsend of a GORGEOUS, 85 degree day recently and I went to the beach. There were so many people there that it looked like summer. I did a sketch similar to her idea, although I didn't add color. It wasn't done in my Sketchbook Revival sketchbook. Instead I used a small sketchbook that I had in my beach bag.

Karen Abend who started Sketchbook Revival hosted the last lesson that I planned to do which was a "Mini Doodle Diary." She had us do mini sketches to go along with 8 prompts she gave. She worked from her imagination to do her sketches, but I worked mostly from life. Several of the sketches I did while sitting in my car in a garden center parking lot. It was drizzling lightly outside at the time. That's where I did the chicken (which was a metal garden sculpture that was about 5 feet tall), the daffodil, the pink tree, and the scene looking out my car window. 

Shells

On Wednesday the Patchogue Sketch Club's theme for the night was tiny objects. I have a lot of shells around and most of these are not even an inch long. I sketched the shapes of the shells before adding watercolor. 

Seashells and Seagull

Both of these sketches are related to the beach. I have a collection of shells that I've gathered from many beaches that I've been to. The seagull was one of many sitting in the parking lot at the beach the other day. Hope they both make you smile.

 

Assorted Sketches

Luckily we still have some beautiful pink trees in bloom here. This time I just focused on a few branches on a tree in Sayville.

I did a few direct watercolors for assorted projects. The nose fit the Wet Canvas Scavenger Hunt as well as the NYC Urban Sketcher's theme of body parts.

This shell is also a direct watercolor done for the Scavenger Hunt on Wet Canvas.

 

Sea Shells

In my guest bathroom I have a glass jar with a collection of shells from assorted places. Some of them are complete shells and some of them are imperfect and may have cracks or holes. I find those interesting too. I sketched just a few on an ATC sized card.

From the Sea

The Patchogue Sketch Club met last week...indoors because of the temps that are still too cold for outdoor sketching in the evening. This week's theme was items from the sea. With all the different shells and beach glass we had lots to sketch.