I signed up to take part in a plein air event called "Paint the Great South Bay" being sponsored by SBAA, one of my local art groups. I think we had about 32 artists participating. This was the second year this has been held and I participated last year too. We could paint beginning on Wednesday and ending on Saturday. Each artist would be able to hang 2/3 paintings at the gallery at the end of the show.
The rules were to paint en plein air somewhere on the south shore of Long Island between Islip to the west and Mastic to the east and south of Sunrise Highway. It gave us a large area to find locations and after having my papers stamped for the event I met several other artists at Smith Point Beach on Wednesday evening. A few of us painted from the decks of the ranger's station which was empty at the time. It afforded a good aerial view of the beach in both directions. I was facing west, so the setting sun was in my eyes. In addition, the mosquitoes must have thought the Off I sprayed on my body was something delicious. I now have bites the size of Texas. LOL But we persevered. Here is the painting I did. This is about 7 x 10.
Here are a few photos from that evening.
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| My painting against the setting sun. |
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| Watching the sun going down. |
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| Gina Lento painting from the deck. |
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| Mary Jane painting. |
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| Getting darker as the mosquitoes increased. Here are links to the paintings I did last year. http://watercolorsbyjoan2.blogspot.com/2014/08/paint-great-south-bay-part-1.html and http://watercolorsbyjoan2.blogspot.com/2014/08/paint-great-south-bay-part-2.html Tomorrow I'll post more from Paint the Great South Bay. |
