Venice 2024 - Part 8 - Arched View, Squero di San Trovaso, Ferrovia

 There are a lot of views hidden at the end of meandering streets like this one.

While I was in Venice I tried my best to post to creativespark.art and do the scavenger hunts. 

This sketch was done for one of the hunts. It is the stove in our apartment and was done on my iPad with Procreate.

The next sketch is one of my favorite places in Venice. It is the Squero di San Trovaso, a landmark 17th century boatyard that builds and services wooden gondolas. There is usually some activity going on that is fun to watch. Of course the gondola I started to sketch first (the prominent one nearly in the center) was finished. The work had been done and they carefully put in into the canal and it was gone! Luckily I had enough of the details and a photo to help me finish that gondola.

A few days before we were leaving I went over to Ferrovia (the train station) to get our tickets for the trip back from Venice to Milan. After booking the tickets I came outside and was attracted to the view across the Grand Canal and the people sitting and standing on the steps of the train station. One lady must have been really tired from her commute. She was leaning against her suitcase resting her head.

Farmingdale Train Station

 On Saturday my friend, Suzala asked me if I wanted to join her sketching at the Farmingdale Train Station. She has been painting at the station several times recently. It was cold and blustery so we sat in her "mobile studio" to get this view of the station. It was so comfortable inside the car with the sun streaming in through the windows and the sunroof that we were quite content.

 

Stone House & Train Station

My friend, Suzala and I decided to have a sketch day today. I picked her up and we headed over to Oyster Bay. On the road in I spied this brick building out of the corner of my eye, so I turned around and found a spot to park so we could sketch. I don't know what the building is for. It is in front of a parking area for a big office building and it doesn't look like it is being used. I Goodgled the address but nothing came up giving information about it.

Here is the view we had from the mobile studio.

Suzala was sketching with a bamboo stick and did add a little color when she finished the inkwork. 

Suzala is a good sketching buddy because like me she doesn't like to waste time. We made a bathroom stop and then looked for a second scene to sketch. We ended up at the old train station that I believe will at some point be turned into a museum. It was a complicated building but that didn't stop us.