Burnett Fountain at the Conservancy Garden

Continuing my day of sketching with the NYC Urban Sketchers I moved to the English-style garden where the Burnett Fountain is located in a lily pond. It is a memorial to the children's book author Frances Hodgson Burnett, known for her novel The Secret Garden. The two figures, one a boy playing the flute and the other of a young girl holding a birdbath resemble the main characters in that book. It is a very popular spot. Everyone comes there for photos and a couple got engaged right in front of us while we were sketching.

 

Allium at the Conservancy Garden

The NYC Urban Sketchers recently met at the Conservancy Garden in Central Park. They are so tall and pretty they look like they are dancing.

Later in the day I did a tiny (3 x 4) sketch of them.

 

View of the Mews

Just outside one of the gates of Central Park's Conservancy Garden there was this great view across the water to what I think was once a boathouse. Now it is a visitor information center.

Inktober Days 16 & 17

Somehow I missed posting yesterday's Inktober sketch, so I'll do two today.

This was sketched by the Sayville dock using a stick (really a chopstick that I had whittled to a point). I wanted to see if I got better results using the narrow tip than I had been getting with the original twig I was using. The jury is still out. lol

#inktober #inktober2016

This was sketched in the Conservancy Garden in Central Park and is part of a sculpture around a fountain there. I used my preppie pen with permanent ink as well as my Elegant Writed to get some bleeding for shading.