Assorted Sketches

The Patchogue Sketch Club met by the MoCA gallery again for people to work on their portraits for Arts on Terry that is taking place tomorrow. My portrait of Pat was finished so I spent my time sketching what was around me...

a parked car...

Mark working in his sketchbook...

Mike working on his portrait of Maryann...

and Jenn sketching from her iPad.

This sketch below was done at the Nissan dealership while I waited for my car inspection and brake work.

Direct Watercolor #18 & #19

 I had an appointment to have my car serviced and planned on waiting for it to be done at Nissan. Knowing I would be there for quite a while I brought along my sketchbook. First I did a pencil sketch of this gentleman, but since I knew I would probably have time for a watercolor too I pulled out my tiny watercolor palette and went to work. Considering it was done on sketch paper, not watercolor paper I think it came out good. So here is my painting #18 for the 30 x 30 Direct Watercolor Challenge.

This is my painting #19 which was done on location at the East Islip Marina. There is a restaurant called the Bayside Clam Bar. It was Father's Day so there were quite a few people there...and a bonus was that off to the left a band set up so I had entertainment while I worked.

Service Area

 The other day I needed to have my car serviced and a recall repair done, so I headed over to Nissan 112 in Patchogue. I got a seat in a good spot with a view from the service area into the sales area. There was a lot there do draw.

Assorted Sketches

 On Wednesday I had to have my car serviced at Nissan...inspection, oil change, and a recall. I was there for a while so I got to do a few sketches of people in the waiting room.

Since I had Art Rage on my phone I did a sketch of a woman waiting for her car. I don't know how people do sketches so easily on the phone. My fingers block my view of what I'm doing.

Back a while ago I did a sketch of a small sailboat at the Sayville Marina.

I'm still doing sketching for the Scavenger Hunts although they have moved from Wet Paints (which is shutting down in the next few months) to crebativespark.art. It is a very welcoming, smaller art group. One of the items in the scavenger hunt was a cup/mug and something held in your hand. This was done with a sketch & wash pencil.

Nissan Service

 Yesterday I didn't get a chance to sketch outside. I needed to bring my car in to be serviced and inspected. So I sat in a very boring Nissan Service Center for a few hours while they did a 60,000 mile service, checked my brakes, checked for a rattling sound, and installed new tires so it would pass inspection. I did a quick sketch from where I was sitting looking into the showroom. I've sketched that view before. There were people in the waiting area but I didn't think I could sketch them without being obvious. I think I'm losing my mojo for stealth sketching after not doing it for so long.

Sketches at Nissan

I had some routine maintenance to do on my car so I took it in to Nissan Service. There are always people around to sketch, like the woman on the left who was watching the cars being serviced through the window, or the man napping while waiting.

Of cours there are always the people on their phones or watching videos on their tablets.

Sketching them sure makes the time pass easier.