Hecksher State Park is on the bay in Suffolk County. To me it seems like it isn't kept up well. There are areas that have beach access on the bay but there is little access to those beaches. A certain parking lot has been partly flooded for years. You have to drive through gigantic puddles to get into the parking lot. That was where this sketch was done. I used watercolors and Neocolor II for this painting.
My sketch group had a model dressed as a fairy this week. She did an assortment of 2 and 5 minute poses for a warm up, then a 10 minute followed by 2 20 minute poses in the same position so we would have one longer pose.
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| This was the longest pose for a total of 40 minutes. |
My plein air group met at the Suffolk County Farm recently. They did a little bit of work on the grounds since I was there last. They had little garden areas set up mostly for the kids that come there. I liked the gate and the flowers.
We had a mostly overcast day but I wanted to head over to the water. I found myself at Captree State Park which is across the Great South Bay from Fire Island. I found a small opening in the dunes where I could see the fishing pier in the background. Captree also has one of the largest fleets of charter fishing boats on Long Island.
The prompt for the Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt was "apart or in pieces." The zuccini I was planning on having with dinner worked perfectly for that prompt.
Next we headed over to the other side of the bridge to Lambertville, NJ. I remember it being small with a few antique shops when we used to go there, but now it is wall to wall shops and restaurants and is a little less commercial than New Hope. After lunch we found a spot along the canal with a view of a restaurant with a number of open umbrellas and a small bridge.
