Malik Farms Flowers

Malik Farms LLC from Coram had a wonderful stall at the Sayville Farmers Market. The vendor sold sunflowers and bouquets of flowers. I sat a distance away to sketch and brought it over to show the woman when I was done. She could tell that I was sketching her and was thrilled. She took a photo of the sketch with my permission. She said I brought her luck because she sold out early!

Sayville Farmers Market

I stopped by the Sayville Farmers Market last Saturday. I sketched a view of this vendor with her bread products from the back. The view from the back seems to work well there. She sold out by the time the market closed. 

Sayville Farmers Market

 The Sayville Farmers Market has reopened for the season a few Saturdays ago. I had a good parking spot facing the lavender tent, so I sat by my car and sketched from there.

Food Truck

 I was at the Sayville Farmers Market recently and saw this great view of a food truck. It was a brutally hot day, and I was sketching from my mobile studio with the AC on, so I couldn't tell what they were serving. I'll have to check it out the next time I'm there.

Sayville Farmers Market

I like capturing the people at the Sayville Farmers Market. There is always some interesting activity.

Sayville Farmers Market

 The Sayville Farmers Market is always a fun place to sketch. It has colorful tents and produce, cars and people. I don't get there very often because it is held on Saturday and many Saturdays I head into the city to sketch with the NYC Urban Sketchers.

Farmers Market

 On Saturday I went to the Sayville Farmers Market to sketch...just sketch. I decided it was too hot to walk around. I had a spot in the shade so I was content for a little while.

Farmers Market

On Saturday at The Grange in Sayville there is a farmers market. I sketched one booth and some of the customers.

At the Farmer's Market

On Saturday morning Sayville hosts a farmer's market at The Grange, a local park. I haven't been there to sketch in quite a while but that's where I headed. I found a spot to sit in the shade at a picnic table next to one of the booths. As I started sketching the woman in the booth yelled over that she recognized me and that I had sketched her once before when she first started working at the farmer's market probably back in 2010. I brought over the sketch and we were talking for a while. The wanted to know if I still had the original sketch and said she'd like to buy them. So now I am looking through all my sketchbooks for the other sketch of "Sweet Melissa."

PGSB Part I

I am once again participating in Paint the Great South Bay (PSGB), a week long plein air event held locally. I believe I have taken part in three of them.  From this past Saturday to this coming Saturday we can paint anywhere in the designated area. Included in the organized events (which are optional) are nocturnal painting nights, a visit to the beach in the evening, a quick-draw event, and painting from a rooftop building. Artists must have their papers/canvases stamped before they can paint. This year they did a competition for the design of the PGSB rubber stamp and mine was selected. I won free admission to the event as well as a free renewal to the Patchogue Arts Council for the year.

Here is the stamp I designed printed on the flier for the event.

On Saturday I headed over to the Sayville Farmers Market. I wasn't sure what the weather would be like since it was spritzing on and off, so I parked my car where I would have a good view of a booth and then wedged my beach umbrella between the door and the seats of the car. It offered a little protection just in case. Of course people came along and checked out what I was doing, even the man who organizes the market. He asked me to send him a copy of the finished painting so that he could post it on the Sayville Farmers Market website, and to also send the details about the reception which will be this Sunday. Here are some photos of my setup and progress.

Our first organized event was on Saturday evening. I met with some of the other artists prior to picking a location. We were told that there would be a photographer and a writer who would be doing an article about the event for our largest newspaper in the area, Newsday. The weather forecast was not good so I decided to get started quickly and paint near somewhere where I could take shelter if it started raining. I went into the Terry Street Garden which was near the Patchogue Arts Gallery. The photographer came over and took photos of me working. I think she took photos of 2/3 of us before it started to rain.

This is how far I go on the painting before the rain started. I packed up quickly and ran for cover by the gallery nearby. It rained for hours! My friend, Gina was so wet that she had to call her husband to bring her some dry clothes. It probably started raining about 7 and the writer wasn't coming until 8. Most of the artists (except for 3 of us) left once there was a slight lull in the rain. Gina, Segundo and I hung around until the writer came to do the interviews. The article should be in Newsday either today or tomorrow.

I didn't paint on Sunday because I had the monotype workshop. On Monday I debated as to whether or not I wanted to go back and work on the same painting or find a new location. I decided to return...once again the sky didn't look promising, but luckily it didn't rain. I decided to enhance the urn with some inkwork using my Elegant Writer pen. 

As the painting progressed I used more of the ink in the painting.

The finished version of the painting is below.

#30x30DirectWatercolor2018 - Day 23 - Farmer's Market & More Tiles

Today was an overcast, cool day with showers forecast. I headed over to the Saturday Farmer's Market in Sayville. I figured I could sit in my car to paint since it was misting at that point, and then I could shop. I almost always miss the Saturday market because I'm usually in the city.

Here are more tiles that I dropped off to sell at the Catbird Seat.

Sayville Farmers Market - Part II

While I was at the Sayville Farmers Market last Saturday I did a second sketch of Stan and Pat's booth. I've sketched their booth before. Usually when I'm there it is so hot and there isn't much shade. That day it was a bit overcast and cooler so I could stay a little longer.

Sayville Farmer's Market I

This was done last week at the Sayville Farmer's Market. I think it is funny that when I go there to sketch I usually sketch the same two vendors. This is Melissa's booth of yummy vegetables. I came home with a delicious head of broccoli that she gave me in return for letting her take a photo of the sketch. She has the sketch from last year too.

I missed posting yesterday. It is rare for me to not post, but we were on the road from Maine back to Long Island yesterday with Kathleen & Fionn. We got back late and were up at 4:15 this morning to get ready to take them to the airport. Here is one last photo of their last stop in Maine for lobster rolls and fried clams. They are back in Dublin with Fionn's family now and they are heading home to Australia soon.

Somehow I got caught up in everyone else's blogs yesterday and forgot to post on mine. LOL

This is a companion piece that goes with the farm stand sketch in the previous post. After sketching the stand itself I asked the vendor if it would be alright if I stood in the booth and sketched some of the produce. I told him I would move out of the way if there were customers who needed to get to my spot. I wouldn't want to interfere with his business. He told me not to worry about it but not to leave before letting him see the sketches. He did like them and was flattered when I told him I had sketched his booth the last time I had gone to the Sayville Farmers Market last year.

Red beets, leeks
green and purple peppers, flowers

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!