Inktober 2022 - Day 31 - Lakeview Cemetery

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Today is the final day of Inktober 2022. I went to do my Inktober sketch at the Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue. It is an old, historic cemetery where I've sketched a few times. I walked over to the area that looked like it had some old headstones. I know a clean-up campaign has been going on there so some of the older headstones seem a lot cleaner than I remember them to be. I started out just sketching in my grey toned Strathmore sketchbook using Noodler's Lexington Grey ink with my Lamy pen. I used some white colored pencil to lighten the headstones in some areas. The scene still needed more to differentiate the items in the scene, so I pulled out my gouache since I know that should cover better than watercolors. That helped and I am pretty happy with the result.

Inktober Day 6 - Lakeview Cemetery

 Tonight the Patchogue Sketch Club met at the Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue...a perfect place to do another Inktober 2020 sketch. We started early because it is getting dark so early and luckily I parked right near the scene I was planning to sketch. I was sketching with a combination of pens that I found in my purse which included an Elegant Writer as well as a black Pitt fine line pen, and a pen that looked brown when I drew with it but turned an interesting shade of deep pink when I wet the ink. (Somehow I had left my usual assortment of pens in their case on my couch.) 

Midway through the sketch it started to drizzle and the ink from the Elegant Writer started to activate. I hurried to gather up everything and went back to my car. I moved it up a few feet so that I could basically see the same view and sat in the passenger seat of my mobile studio to finish the sketch. I usually sit on the driver's side, so sitting on the right side of the car sort of threw me off a little and I kept dropping things since I had no seat on my right side to rest my materials. I was lucky I went back to the car because it really started to rain and I would have been soaked if I hadn't moved.

30 x 30 Direct Watercolor - Day 13 - Angel

Last night my sketch group met at Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue. I used this angel statue for the subject of my Day 13 Direct Watercolor.

#30x30directwatercolor #directwatercolor2019

Inktober Day 25 - Lakeview Cemetery

For Inktober today I went to a historical cemetery in Patchogue that they have been working on lately.  They are having the Day of the Dead Event to raise money for the restoration. I am doing something for the fundraiser (see below). #inktober #inktober2017

As part of the fundraiser for the restoration of the Lakeview Cemetery the Patchogue Chamber of Commerce is holding a Dia' de los Muertos event at a steep price of $80 per person...too steep for me. One of my art organizations had interested artists purchase a plaster skull to decorate as a table decoration for the event. Then the skulls will be raffled off. Here is my contribution.

#inktober, #inktober2015 - Day 21 & Lakeview Cemetery

Inspiration came to me when I saw this crane down at the East Islip Marina, so it became my Inktober sketch for today. I figured it would be safe and stay put, but lo and behold just as I was finishing, I heard a motor start and the entire platform moved all the way up to the dock I was sitting on. lol

There was an October challenge posted by James Gurney to "paint a graveyard" using only 3 colors plus white. Here is a link to the other paintings for the challenge if you would like to check them out.

https://www.facebook.com/events/885666864816481/

This was painted at Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue using only yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, burnt umber, and a little white.