Sturbridge Landscape

On Saturday the NYC Urban Sketchers virtually visited small New England Towns. Our guide, Andrew Borloz, gave us an introduction to the many kinds of New England Towns and what they have in common. There were so many to pick from and Andrew offered links to some of his favorites. In the morning I picked Sturbridge, Massachusetts. I've been to the town but never sketched it. The view that spoke to me was this red house surrounded by autumn colors.

 

Sketch the Spooky Stuff!

 Due to the Covid restrictions the NYC Urban Sketchers have been having our weekly meetings on Zoom. Each week we have a location or a theme, and often one of the members hosts the event. This week since it was actually Halloween yesterday, our theme was "sketch the spooky stuff." For the morning we traveled virtually to a location that was spooky and Salem, Massachusetts and Amityville, NY were suggested and some links were given. I couldn't really get into the idea of the witches in Salem, but I did find some nice architecture on Derby Street and sketched a house there.

For the afternoon the suggested theme was "abandoned places." I focused on scary-looking cemeteries and looked for references for those. I combined the images from a few photos to create this monochromatic look.

Ferry Sketch

Today we drove back from Maine. It wasn't a bad ride. The roads were all clear and by the time we got to the middle of Massachusetts there was hardly any snow on the ground. When we got to New London and the Cross Sound Ferry we were told that the ferry was running about 30 minutes late...try an hour. So instead of leaving New London at 6 we left at 7pm. It was a long day.

The ferry was very crowded which gave me a variety of subjects to sketch. The concession line is always one of my favorites because when one person moves out of sight the next one just takes their place. 

A lot of people were traveling with their dogs. I did a quick sketch of one.