Strawberry Jam

During our heat wave it was good to find items inside that I could sketch. This fit a Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt item too...something sweet. 

Outside the Sayville Bean

 A stop at the Sayville Bean was a good spot to find some people to sketch early in the morning during our heat wave. It was early enough for the heat to be tolerable.

Scavenger Hunt Sketches

 I had gone out early to get lobsters for 4th of July dinner (a tradition our family had for my mom's birthday which is the 4th of July). I hadn't had breakfast and I had left Jerry sleeping so on the way back home after picking up the lobsters I stopped at Mc Donald's to pick up Sausage and Egg Mc Muffins. One of the prompts for the current Creative Spark Scavenger Hunt was "yummy" so I thought this fit. 

yummy

shoes

fruit and a bowl

Lavender By the Bay

 Somehow this didn't get photographed and posted earlier. My plein air group, PALS was scheduled to sketch at Lavender By the Bay in Manorville. When I got there it had started to drizzle. On ly myself and only 2 other members actually came to paint due to the weather.It is a huge lavender field and I didn't want to get stuck out there if it really started to rain hard, which it ended up doing. There is a covered pavilion but you still would have to get there and back. Instead I pulled up near the fence, sat in my mobile studio, and painted the view.

This week the English lavender will be in bloom so the group is scheduled to return there on Tuesday.

From the Maritime Museum Grounds

The other evening the Patchogue Sketch Club met at the Maritime Museum in West Sayville. Rather than focus on the water like I usually do I did a direct watercolor of the view out the entryway to the grounds looking toward the house across the street. 

Near Home

 Before the craziness of the 4th of July took hold I sketched the street scene in Sayville. This was done as a direct watercolor with no pencil lines.

We had a number of really hot days going into this weekend, so I made sure I had a lot of time to relax in the pool at our complex or time to sit in the shade. This was done on my iPad with Procreate.

Kalers Pond Barn

 Right after I got home from Maine my plein air group went to Kalers Pond in Center Moriches to paint. There is a rustic brown barn there that was a good subject to paint.