Rocky Point Business

This was sketched up in Rocky Point. I believe the building contains a restaurant because of the picnic table outside. When I was there it wasn't doing much of a business.

Somehow even though I posted a link back to Tracy's blog, I forgot to post the entry there yesterday. So today you'll see two separate new posts. Check out what Tracy was up to the last two days.

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Return to Flo's

Last Wednesday evening the Patchogue Sketch Club made our first visit of the season to the outdoor Flo's Luncheonette in Blue Point. We usually sketch there several times through the course of the summer because it is such a colorful, fun place to visit...and eat if so inclined. It is such a typical beachy food shack with burgers, fries, seafood, and ice cream. I think just looking at the place piles on a few pounds. lol

This was done across a double page spread in a sketchbook that my friend, Gina made for me. The paper isn't watercolor paper, so it doesn't handle like paper I usually use. But I want to finish up the sketchbook because we are going to have our sketchbooks on display soon in the Art Space Gallery in Patchogue through the Patchogue Arts Council which we are a part of. I still have a few more sketches before I complete this book.

Flo's in Patchogue

I have sketched Flo's in Rocky Point several times in the last few years. It is an outdoor local fried seafood place with outdoor umbrellas and only outdoor picnic tables. It is seasonal and a fun place to go. The owners decided to also open a year-round location in Patchogue, and it opened very recently. The Patchogue Sketch Club met there the other night. No picnic tables inside but you still go up to the counter to order your food and the menu for the most part is the same with a few new additions. You can sit outside at outdoor picnic tables but we were having heavy rain while we were there. It was a good indoor location for sketching and I focused on a few people ordering at the counter. The big "Flo's" sign is actually on the floor right there, 

Farmers Market Sketches

On the Urban Sketchers flickr the weekly theme is fruit.

Where better to find fruit to sketch than the farmers market? So I headed over to the Sayville Farmers Market this morning. I wanted to do some close up sketches rather than doing the booths.

First I sketched the produce at Stan & Pat's booth.

Then I went over to "Fly In & Pig Out" run by Sweet Melissa, of Sweet Melissa's Dips and Catering in Rocky Point. She sells produce that she says is mostly Italian...I kept hearing about figs in her discussion with other shoppers. I guess I'll have to go back and try them. She had some interesting curling Italian Squash. There was cheddar cheese cauliflower too. The dips looked and sounded interesting...you could taste them if you wanted. Too bad my hands were so busy.

Melissa was very friendly and I will have to visit there again. 

My thanks to both vendors for allowing me to sketch their merchandise!

Rocky Point Paintings

On Wednesday evening the Patchogue Sketch Club met down by the water down Rocky Point Avenue in Rocky Point for our sketch night. The dock and gazebo area had been pretty much destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. It was great to see that the repairs to it were finished, and it was in use again. There were people crabbing and fishing on the eastern side, and a sunset taking place to the west.

First I sketched a few people crabbing.

Here's a photo of that area later with the sunset colors reflected in the sky.

Next I did 3 small ATCs of the sunset.

Here are some of the other artists at work and a photo of the actual sunset.

Here's Cindy working with pastels.

Chris and Gina also working with pastels.

Roseanne sketching in pencil.

Return to Flo's

On Wednesday the Patchogue Sketch Club met at Flo's in Rocky Point. Flo's is a burger/clam shack that does a brisk business at this time of year. The colorful umbrellas make a colorful painting.

I resisted the food until it was time to head home, when I took some fried clams home for dinner.

Rocky Point Water Views

On Wednesday my sketching group met down at the pier at the end of Rocky Point Avenue in Rocky Point. We met at 6 pm and stayed until the sunset was over. That gave me about 2 hours to paint. I did the beach view first. Then I turned around to face the fishing pier on the other side. These two men took a long time to settle down but I finally was able to capture them.



Flo's

Last evening the Patchogue Sketch Club met at Flo's in Rocky Point. It is an institution in the area and had quite a crowd of people last night. (I only included about 1/5 of the number of people that were standing in front. lol). This is 4 x 5.