Sunday was a beautiful, warm day so I headed down to the little beach on the Great South Bay in Sayville. I thought about the sketches I had done in the workshop I took with my friend recently and did this sketch in a similar manner. The sketch itself was mostly a continuous line sketch.
I get rusty when I haven't used Procreate in a while. The Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt item was "calming" and since the beach is my refuge when I want to feel calm that's where I headed. Luckily there is a small local town beach in Sayville that I go to a lot. The weather was warm so I happily sat on a bench while I created.
The trees down by Sayville Beach are a bit crooked due to years of the weather events down there as well as the normal wind. I like how they are misshapened.
Since the bay is so nearby I ride down there quite often. This was the view at Sayville Beach the other day. A lot of the Great South Bay was frozen and there was still some snow remaining from the last storm.
I've sat down by Sayville Beach and sketched this view many times. This time I used my iPad and Procreate.
Last week we had a day that was warm enough to sit down by the beach in the afternoon and sketch. I went to the beach by the Sayville Marina. The beach itself was closed for the season...no lifeguards, but there were a few other people sitting in beach chairs on the sand.
Sometimes the sky is just so pretty that I have to stop and paint it. The best place to do that is usually by the beach or the bay where there is nothing to block the views. This was done down by Sayville Beach.
I like when shrubs are surrounded by other foliage. This is one of the piney trees down by the bay in Sayville.
The weather has improved since our snow storm and with a few days of above freezing temperatures and some rain, a lot of the snow is gone. Smaller piles still exist where the snow was plowed and some of it just settled in by the dunes. This was sketched from my mobile studio near Sayville Beach.
I'm still practicing using the Chinese ink and my twigs to do sketches. Inktober Day 19 was done down by Sayville Beach looking from the parking lot.
I was down by the bay beach in Sayville. It was a windy day but the trees looked good against the sky.
I tend to gravitate to the same locations over and over and Sayville Beach Park is one of those places. This time I was in my mobile studio facing the tennis courts. There were some young boys hanging around with their bikes. When I first started the sketch there were three boys, but of course one of them had to get up and start riding around. These two pretty much sat still until I had sketched them and then all three of them were zooming around the tennis courts on their bikes. (Off to my left blocked by a few SUVs they were setting up chairs for an outdoor wedding facing the water. I'm sure it would have been nice to sketch but I couldn't hang around that long.)
The flowering trees have really captured my attention this year. This was sketched in Sayville down by the beach. This fence was facing the parking lot at the beach. I used white gouache and watercolors for this and it was done on Strathmore tan toned paper.
The first two sketches here were done for a recent Wet Canvas Scavenger Hunt. The bottom page of people was done while enjoying the sun down at Sayville Beach over the weekend.
