Monday, March 18, 2024

One Week 100 People - Final Sketches

Here are my final sketches for the 100 People challenge. First I joined my friend, Suzala at the Nassau County Firefighters Museum. Two of the firemen working there snuck into my sketch. (They loved that!) Then I still needed 2 more people so we went to 99 Ranch Market, an Asian grocery store that has a food court. I ended up doing a total of 102 sketches!

 





Sunday, March 17, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 6 Part 2

 Somehow I missed posting yesterday. I swear I typed up something and wished everyone a 

Happy St Patrick's Day, but it isn't here.

This is the post that I should have posted yesterday. I had sketched at the Sayville Bean Coffee House. There were a lot of people who came and went that I inserted into the sketch. When I finished this sketch I thought I had reached 100 people, only to realize I had miscounted and was off by a few people.

This sketch has a funny story. The guy who was sitting at the table in front of me (green Bean sweatshirt) came over to me later and asked if I had sketched there before. It turns out he is a co-owner of the coffee shop. Anyway, he said his aunt that lives in South Carolina texted him my last sketch of the coffee shop after she saw it posted on Facebook. I don't know the woman or how she saw it, but she recognized that the sketch was his place. He had it in the photos on his phone. He told me I was welcome to come and sketch any time.



Saturday, March 16, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 6

 Somehow I miscounted and thought I was finished...but I wasn't. Here are people #85-96 done at the Sayville Bean Coffee House, and a few people sketched at Underworld Productions, a location that has areas set up to resemble sets from the past. There was an area set up like an old-fashioned bathroom, living room, den, bedroom, as well as the soda shop and the beauty salon. Two models were available for the Patchogue Sketch Club and the Patchogue Photography Club.

Adonna posed in the beauty salon. She was great and we had time for more than one sketch of her.



Our group had Isabella modeling in the soda shop, but only for about 40 minutes. I finished the color at home.

I still have a few more people to sketch tomorrow to reach 100.




Friday, March 15, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 5

 On day 5 of the challenge I sketched at the library.


There weren't too many people at the library, so I headed over to the local market parking lot. These people were hard to do because they walked too quickly and didn't stay put. I'll have to remember that the next time the challenge comes up.



Thursday, March 14, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 4

 My plan was to go to the Motor Vehicle Department this morning to sketch. When I got there I found out they no longer let you just show up at the office...you need an appointment! Now what??? In the same strip mall there was a TJ Max, so I headed in there to sketch shoppers. Some of them were cooperative and stood in the same general area looking through the racks. I had to stand to sketch which I don't really like doing. But I got some sketching done...and lost the cap on one of my pens. Here are some of the shoppers.



It was a very sunny day and I thought there would be some people down by the water in Sayville. There weren't as many people there as I expected. I think the wind kept them away. But I did get a few sketches done, even one of the man sitting in the car next to me. He was there for a while...had his lunch and then put his seat back and took a nap. lol


I finished the day completing sketch #66.


Wednesday, March 13, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 3

 For my next day of sketching, first I headed to the food court at the mall in Lake Grove. There are always people there and they usually stay put for a while, as long as you start sketching when they sit down to eat. 


I did a second page of sketches there. As I was finishing I felt a presence behind me and heard a male voice laugh and say, "Did I make the cut?" I turned around and found the man who I sketched at the top left of the page looking at the sketches over my shoulder. He was thrilled to be in the collection.


I wanted to get a little more sketching done so I went to a local supermarket. Once again I had to stand to sketch these. When I finished this page I was up to 51 sketches.






Tuesday, March 12, 2024

One Week 100 People - Day 2



 My second day of sketching for the challenge wasn't as exciting. I headed to a local Panera Bread in Bohemia for my sketching. I like that one rather than one that is closer to me because of the setup. They have tables in the front that face the counter where people order as well as the tablets that they can order on. But I didn't sit there at first. I sat at a table that faced some of the occupied booths as well as a table with three women playing what I think was mahjong. That gave me a few options for my sketches.

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When I had sketched that view I moved to the front and sketched some of the people placing their orders. At the end of day 2 I had sketched 31 people.