Maritime Museum Dock

I hadn't been to the Maritime Museum in West Sayville for a while and when I got there I found that a big part of the dock was being replaced. I guess that anything by the water is affected by the salt, the water, the high tides and the winds. This was the only section that it seemed like they weren't working on. It will be interesting to see how the dock area looks when they are finished. 

 

Meadowedge Greenhouse

On the grounds of the Sayville Maritime Museum is the newly opened Meadowedge Cooperative Greenhouse. It had been empty for a long time but is finally being used.

Sayville Maritime View

In Sayville near the Maritime Museum is pretty area of foliage along the water. Yes, there is water right behind this view. This is my Day 5 Direct Watercolor painting.

#directwatercolor2019 #30x30directwatercolor

PSGB Part 3

Yesterday I met my friend, Gina at the Maritime Museum grounds in Sayville. The views across the marsh are what I planned for my painting for Paint the Great South Bay. I brought along a rectangular watercolor paper to do more of a panoramic view. I stood out on the dock that is closest to the marsh, but Gina focused on one of the maritime buildings for her pastel. She took a photo of me working out on the dock. You can see me there facing the marsh.

Here is my painting at the beginning stages.

And here it is a little while later.

Here is the finished painting.

 I think I mentioned the other day that I was interviewed for an article that was going into our biggest Long Island newspaper, Newsday about the Paint the Great South Bay event. The article was in the paper yesterday! I don't know if you can enlarge the words enough to read them, but I am quoted.

Assorted Sketches

After our snowstorm last week I took a ride down near the Maritime Museum in Sayville. Due to the high tides with that nor'easter there was a lot of flooding. The water was almost even with the dock. I did stop by the golf course next to it. The flooding was up to the fencing.  I had to laugh that there were golfers out practicing their strokes...not much stops them.

Then last Sunday a friend and her husband asked me to be a "reviewer" for the First Lego League competition for ages 7-10 at Longwood HS. It was for the morning only and it was great to see the projects the teams created. After lunch my friend, Suzala and I went to the main gym to sketch the older participants during their robotics tournaments. It was colorful, noisy and fun! We sat in the bleachers to sketch.

At the Dock

Last Wednesday my sketch group went to the Maritime Museum in West Sayville. There are some old and some new boats...but I find the old ones have more character. The temps that day had reached  90 degrees, but in the evening down by the water it was much cooler. I ended up with wearing a fleece hoodie and a heavy sweatshirt over that...and I was still cold. lol Most of the sketchers left before the sun set they were so cold.

Maritime View & Challenge Days 9 & 10

This was painted on one of our warm days right before the snowstorm. It was even warm enough to sit out to paint at the Maritime Museum in Sayville. The painting is 5 x 7.

Here are the next two days in the challenge.

Day 9 - silver wrapper

Day 10 - a mammal

Maritime House

I had gone to the Maritime Museum grounds in Sayville to meet my plein air group back I think in July. It was an overcast, damp, lousy morning and only two of us showed up to paint. This building is used as some kind of museum...I've never been inside. I stood under a pavilion just in case it started to rain. I did the pencils sketch for this and of course it started raining. So my friend, Liz and I left. I kept meaning to go back and paint it, but things like a trip to Venice got in the way. I finally went back after we returned home from Venice and I finished the piece. This is 8 x 10.

Inktober - Day 13

Here is another twig drawing I did. This one was on the grounds of the Maritime Museum in Sayville across a double spread in one of my notebooks. The ink on the twig is sometimes unpredictable and leaves splotches where you don't actually want them.

#inktober #inktober2016

Marsh ATCs & Painting

On Wednesday night the Patchogue Sketch Club was down at the Maritime Museum grounds in West Sayville. It is one of our favorite spots for marsh views and great sunsets. I did 2 ATCs for my exchange as well as a regular painting.

Here's a bit of the sunset that night.

Maritime Museum

Considering the number of times I've sketched on the grounds of the Maritime Museum in Sayville it is surprising I've never sketched the museum istelf. The other day I finally did. It was windy and on the cold side so I bundled up well.

Marsh at Sunset

On Wednesday evening my sketch group met on the property of the Maritime Museum in Sayville. It is one of our favorite spots to sketch...the marsh seems to stretch forever in front of the dock. We saw several deer way off in the distance and an egret who didn't stay long enough to get into may painting.

Maritime Museum Grounds

I am a little late posting today since my sister and I were on the road to visit my brother and sister-in-law in Georgia. We are at the midway point in Roanoke, VA. After the visit with them it will be on to Myrtle Beach for a watercolor workshop. I'll try to keep posting while I'm away.

This was done on the grounds of the Maritime Museum in West Sayville. I'm not really sure if the buildings are part of the museum property or the golf course that the property is attached to...it is sort of in the middle. The building on the left is for woodworking, but I'm not sure what is in the other two buildings. I parked next to this huge pile of snow on the connecting road and was afraid someone was going to come along and make me move. As it was a car did stop and check to see if I needed help, so I thought that was nice. There is also a greenhouse on the property but I haven't sketched that yet.

Maritime Museum

Down near the water in Sayville is the Maritime Museum, and on the property there are some old boats out of the water. They always make interesting subjects and especially with the autumn colors around them. This is 8 x 10.

Tomorrow is a big day for me. I belong to the Wet Paints Studio Group in Sayville and I will be the featured artist in their "Meet the Artist" series tomorrow night. I've been invited to bring some of my artwork and talk about my work and life as an artist to our members. They have been doing this for years, and asked me several times to participate, and I guess they finally wore me down. (I do hate speaking in public and then I also hate the sound of my own voice. lol) They usually film the presentations and post them on youtube.com, so when and if it is available I will post a link. Of course I'm not completely organized yet, but I figure I have part of the day tomorrow to organize the work I'm bringing...yes, I'm procrastinating. lol I will let you know how it goes.

Sunsets

In the summer when I go out on Wednesdays with the Patchogue Sketch Club we are usually in a location by the water and we get some really nice sunsets. We meet at about 6:30 and stay until the sun sets. Some of the sunsets are just amazing. I've started doing tiny ATCs each time, because it is impossible for me to do a bigger painting since the sky changes so quickly. This time there was color in every direction I looked...not just to the west.

Here are the two ATCs (2.5 x 3.5) that I painted and a photo I took. I'm going to have to read my manual for my camera because the sunsets don't come out as good as they should.

Old Boat

Yesterday the Patchogue Sketch Club met at the Maritime Museum in Sayville to sketch in the evening.   I sketched one of the old boats there...not quite seaworthy...but it floats!

You can always find something interesting there to sketch.

This was done in my Stillman & Birn Alpha Sketchbook.

Marsh View II

I am doing an exchange on Wet Canvas of ATC sized landscapes (2.5 x 3.5).
I will post the paintings after they arrive at their destinations. Some are traveling a great distance.

The first one that has been received went to my friend, Eileen Cannon,
who lives in Costa Blanca, Spain.

This is titled "Marsh View II" and was done en plein air at the Maritime Museum in Sayville. In the background you can see across the Great South Bay to Fire Island.

Maritime Museum Marsh Views

Last Wednesday the Patchogue Sketch Club met in the early evening at the Maritime Museum in Sayville. Although the museum was closed by the time we met, the grounds stay open. I did this across a 2 page spread in my book for the Sketchbook Project.

 

Then the sun was starting to set, so I pulled out an ATC (2.5 x 3.5) to paint a bit of that. It is hard to do plein air sunsets. Once the paper gets wet there isn't enough time to let it dry so that each layer still stays it's true color. I'm hoping that doing smaller paintings helps. lol



Maritime Museum View

This is a double page spread that I did at the Maritime Museum in Sayville the other night. This poor boat needs some TLC and I do think they will eventually work on it.



At the Boatyard, Blue Door on First Street. and Wiggins Street Charmer

This weekend I participated in my first paintout in Greenport, NY. Plein air artists did paintings in the village on Friday and Saturday and then there was a silent auction of the paintings to benefit the Maritime Museum in Greenport. Of course we had horrible weather. lol It rained most of the day on Friday, so my friend and I ended up painting this view from the front seat of my car. Most of the time it was raining too hard to keep the windows open and it was so hot and humid in the car. I used artistic license to make the day look a bit nicer in the painting...no heavy rain or flooding.

To do this second painting I sat in my car again, while it was parked in someone's driveway on the other side of the street. It was still raining, but not quite as hard as in the morning.

We saw only one other artist while we were in Greenport for the day. I think the weather scared most of them away.

I had painted another house the weekend before in Greenport. This was a challenge to do because after I sketched it out, we found out that the cars for the Shelter Island ferry lined up on that street, just in front of where we were sitting to paint.