Gabrielson's Plants

 Gabrielson's Country Farm in Jamesport was chock full of flowers and plants for spring when I was there the other day.

East Creek View

I was out on the north fork of Long Island on Sunday and took a ride down to Jamesport beach. I liked the view across the water. It called out for a double page spread. This was done in my sketchbook for the library project. 

Sketchbook Revival - Part II

 I am still working slowly on some of the lessons from this year's Sketchbook Revival. 
Here are a few more pages.

Joanna Sharpe's lesson was called "A Little Every Day, Watercolor Play." She had us use watercolor washes leaving an area to do some lettering. Her lettering is whimsical and uses exaggerated features and embellishments to the painted page. I did one section similar to her piece and using the same phrase she did.

Then I did a second one with a phrase of my own.

Alison Wells had us create a "Mixed Media Gratitude Art Journal Page" where we collaged and stamped and used negative painting. 

Terri Burt's lesson was "Sunshine on a Cloudy Day" and involved sketching quirky houses (mine doesn't look too quirky) in permanent ink, adding color and inking again with water-soluble ink that can be wet to create shadows and shading. It is something I've done before but I enjoyed it.

Tamara Laporte's colorful lesson was to create an "Expressive Portrait of a Fox." We used colorful watercolors and inks to help show the texture in the fox's face and body.

I still have a number of lessons to go.

Bait & Tackle

 A bait & tackle shop in East Moriches...a fun find.

View to the Bellport Dock

This was sketched looking at Bellport Dock down Bellport Lane.

 

Recent Sketches

Here are a few sketches that I did recently. I took the Long Island Railroad from Hicksville recently. I got there a little early but was able to pull out my small sketchbook and capture a few of the people in the waiting room before my train arrived. 

One of the items we had to sketch for the last Scavenger Hunt on creativespark.art recently was wheels. I found these two bikes locked together.

Dock in Blue Point

I did another sketch in the small book for the sketchbook project. This is a small dock area in Blue Point. Luckily there are a few spots where you can see in through the reeds.