Relaxing

 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.)

Arboretum Tulips

 I did get to find some tulips in bloom at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum last week. There were big groupings of them to pick from. I did a few.

Daffs from the Memorial Garden

 The forecast the other day was for temps near 70 degrees so I headed over to Smith Point Park to the ocean. There was a lot of construction going on around the pavilion area so I took a walk over to the Flight 800 Memorial Garden. Usually there are some flowers in bloom and I was hoping for tulips. I wasn't that lucky. There were a few daffodils still in bloom but they were outnumbered by blossoms that were past their prime. I sketched them anyway.

Jen's Specimens

On Wednesday night one of the members of the Patchogue Sketch Club hosted the even because Mark was away. The weather forecast was for wet weather so Jen got some of her specimens out and ready for us to sketch.

We started with a few shells including that of a horseshoe crab. 

Then we moved on to a replica of a human skull.

My final sketch was the shell of a turtle. I just loved the patterns in the scoots of the carapace if the shell which were very interesting.

Palms Past their Prime

Several of the restaurant/bars along the river in Patchogue use tropical palms to give their outside seating a tropical feel. The problem is when it gets cold there is no room inside the buildings to keep the trees trough the winter...and many of them look like this. These were in the parking lot by Harbor Crab.  I hope they find a way to dispose of them before the new ones are brought in. This was done with Noodler's Brown Ink which is water-soluble. I think it looks more sepia than brown, and I like the color.

 

Kitty from X-Men

This week's sketch theme for "Let's Art with Lefty Lucy" was inspired by Kitty from the X-Men. (I had no idea who she was and had to google her.) Apparently she is some kind of super-hero and has a dragon friend named Lockheed. Kitty was much easier to sketch than the dragon. I just couldn't see it well in any of the poses. Of course when we were all done I asked if we could see the dragon and we got to see it up close...but that didn't help in the sketches. lol

These are 2 minute, 5 minute, and 10 minute poses.

The next two sketches were 10 minutes.

This was the final 20 minute sketch.

 

Flowers and Stone

 I love going to nurseries and farm stands to see what they have on display outside. Olish Farms in Eastport always has interesting displays of flowers. I liked these spring flowers but really liked the stone rooster in front of it. I had to leave without checking it out closer because I was afraid I would end up bringing it home. I wonder if it had a space inside for a plant...