This challenge will run 2 weeks .
You pick from this list a item that you have in your home and draw it .. or you can use a free space and draw a item from your house of your choice
You may use any medium ...pencil , watercolor ect..you may do it as detailed as you wish or just a fast sketch

This weeks list is from Darus67 ...so thank you darus

Have fun !

A cup of tea
Candy
pots & pans
a ring on a finger or whole hand
a tractor (real or a toy)
a radio
A shovel (snowshovel, garden shovel, etc)
A flag
Herbs and Spices (bottles from the spice rack, or the original plant)
Your thumb
Free Spot

Great list again. I love this forum.

well I wanted to see how many people liked it .. and I was worried cause it was moving to the other page .. and there no one will see it . so we just need to post in here to keep it off the next page

Good list, Darus67 - I think this will work for everyone. It may not be the most popular thread but I think it's a good one to have. It is something that everyone can participate in from all levels of experience.

If the popularity of this thread is dropping off, I like the idea of only running it every 2 weeks. I'm glad folks like my list. I also like the 'free spot' Kim added. Now I s'pose I should go draw something.

well I hope alot of people start drawing to keep this thread alive lol

Free spot, funny how crooked these cameras can make a chair and table look.
Paulette
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Patience, Grasshopper, there are a lot of challenges all starting at the same time. LOL

very nice sketch paulette .. I cant wait to get started .. but I was busy working on a drawing for mecharfer. now I am done and I will start here .

Hi Kim

Here are my drawing of my hand and my thumb.

Rafael

My cup of tea is a big mug.

Here is my thumb. Well, sort of..

Rafael .. very nice .. hands are some of the hardest parts of the body to do .. they go along with the feet .. you did a great job .
Cyn ..now thats a mug of hot tea lol very well done ....your hand also looks good .

Anyone does palm reading here?

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OOOOHHHHHHmmmmmmmm.............

I see a traffic violation for driving the wrong way down a two-way street,
Either that or canned peas are 2 for 1 at your local grocery,
I'm not entirely sure which.

hmmm ...... hmmmmmmmmmmm ...... I see ..... a long life ...... loving heart...... hm ......... I can't see ....... but nooooow ..... the dust is clearing .... "I can see clearly now"............. YES! I see a well known artist with a lot works ......... ohoooh there is a exhibition .........

Ha Ha Ha That was perfect, Traumsonne ..

Cool! .... but don't tell them how much I slipped you to say that!

Nice hand rose ... reading palms is not my thing .. but I know from posting here you are a great artist and creative and beuatiful and nice

A cup of tea, well I got this one for Christmas and was told it was a cofee cup, but since I haven't use it yet, it could be a tea cup. No tea in yet cause I don't drink tea or very seldom drink tea.

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Here is my spice bottle.
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Nice sketches Mecharver I love the mug .

Thanks Kim
Christmas present from my little sister.

Okay. This is a self portrait of a bad habit.
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southern cross hun how did you do that .... when it was time to draw the other hand lol ...awsome job .

No, I won't! My mouth is paste up.......

I was wondering the same thing.
When I was making the list I briefly considered being evil and asking people to draw their own dominant hand.
I thought better of it because so many people say that hands are hard to draw anyway,
why make it any harder than necessary.

its a challenge thats for sure

wow what a wonderful sketch southerncross. you did a fantastic job.
Lori

Try it. It was not that hard really. Just more stopping and starting. The cigarette was actually my pencil.

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It is not such good, the reflections and the light and shadow areas are not so good. It was a sketch while watching TV with one eye.

Hi everyone, I picked a couple of the items........... nutmegs and a tea cup and for the free spot a drawing of my sons' favorite stuffed toys from when they were babies many years ago.

Connie



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nice sketches martina and Connie . I ned to get busy on these I have done none yet lol

Hey you're all doing extremely well!!

I chose the free spot and tried a couple of firsts for me - a full human figure and the Lyra oil based skin tones that Jonie sent me in her box of goodies at Christmas. This is a little statuette that stands on our mantelpiece in the living room. The first pic is the preliminary sketch in graphite and the second is the same thing in the Lyra oil based colours.

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Not a terribly good tendering but at least I think I got the proportions right.

Connie,
the "still-life" of the toys is great. Is it be called still-life too???

Kin,
how can THAT be??? Shame on you...

Rose,
this statuette is so funny! I expect that every minute he sais: "Now sit down and be quiet! And open your books at page 211."

You see, the "free spot" is good.
Do you like the oil-based pencils? I have the whole set (72) and love them very much. I didn't knew that skin-tones are singulary available.

Did you use the "Rindsor & Newton - Cartridge" paper? By the way - I have this paper too and today I tried to use with graphit and it is very very good.

No Martina, for this drawing I used a medium grain paper, also by Winsor and Newton. I started playing with the Lyra's this morning because I am seriously considering a portrait in three (or four) part harmony - i.e. three or four shades of brown which would give it an old time look. There is a class about this on WetCanvas which was pointed out to me yesterday. The class uses Derwent Drawing pencils but from their description it sounded like they are very similar to the Lyras.

These are my scriblings from this morning.

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The Lyra's are fun to use and also blend well but their size does not make them the ideal medium for a small drawing like my statuette, even though my drawing is actually as big as the statue itself. The skin tones Joanie sent me are mostly meant for coloured people and asiatics. They're a set of 12.

Yes, the Lyras are fun to use, I love them. And you are right, for small drawings they are not so perfect. For details I use "Verithin".

I don't know the Derwent Drawings (I tried out the "Artists" and "Coloursoft") but I know that the colors are very different to the Lyra's. They must be coated, only sepia-colors and colors "lik the old masters". and from description they are much softer than the Lyras.

I also use light or medium grained paper. Or pastell paper (like Fabriziano). It depends on what kind of texture I want to have.

Now I go and have a look at the class on Wetcancas. Thanks for the link.

PS: I use a sharpener with battery. That makes the Lyras VERY sharp and pointed.

A cup of tea and herbs! Done so quickly. I have trouble with cups, so that's what I decided to do! Though, I wouldn't have been able to do it tomorrow and I only had a bit of time tonight. But I did it anyway!

I like it!

Thank you! I'm currently fixing it as I type *laughs* I just can't leave finished drawings alone...

Rose what kind of oils did you use for that ?
Violi ....nice tea pot