I visited Cedarmere Park in Roslyn with two friends recently. The park is on the property of the 19th-Century poet, William Cullen Bryant. There is a restored house, a pond, a mill, a garden, and a small bridge overlooking Hempstead Harbor. The only drawback is that it is on a slope and I found it difficult to walk around parts of it if I wasn't on the paths and keep my balance. lol I focused on the lilly pond for my watercolor sketch.
I saw something the other day about #3materialsdrawingchallenge which hopes to encourage artists to use and explore and combine some of the materials they don't normally use. I did these items for the CreativeSpark.art Scavenger Hunt.
I used Posca markers, Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons, and watercolors for the lemons.
The Patchogue Sketch Club met to sketch the water tower on Ambulance Lane. In orderto get the entire structure I sat far back in the parking lot across the street. We were there for about an hour or so when it started to drizzle. Everyone gathered up their work, scurried to their cars, and left. I decided to stay and finish my sketch from inside my "mobile studio." I moved the car so that I was in about the sme spot I had been sitting in earlier and finished the sketch. I was rewarded with a lovely sunset that just kept getting better.
I haven't done a self portrait in a while, but it was one of the items on the last Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt. This was done fairly quickly in graphite. When I do self portraits I usually use "photo booth" on my Mac which gives me a pretty stable way of viewing myself.
I spotted this house at 35 West Ave in West Sayville. They were proudly displaying the colors with the large American flag and the red, white, and blue bunting.
During the summer when my plein air group paints by the Bellport Dock the sailboats are often out on the small beach as well as in the water. Today sailing lessons were being given but I focused on a few sailboats instead of the group getting ready to go out for their lesson.
There were quite a few people at the pool and a small crowd along the edge of the pool. I had my fingers crossed that they would stay put for a while...and they did for the most part.
