Long Island Aquarium - Part 1

I found out recently that the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead allows free entry up to 7 days before or 7 days after your birthday. Since it was my birthday yesterday, I planned a trip to the Aquarium on Tuesday. I brought along my iPad and planned to do at least one digital sketch. I sat myself down in front of the octopus tank. For the most part he/she was friendly when I was by myself, but as soon as there was noise (little kids) he/she hid behind the structure in the tank. The octopus NEVER stopped moving...and that is 8 legs of movement! I'm glad I was working on the iPad because if it was a regular sketch I would have been erasing like crazy.

I also sat in front of the coral reef tank. Luckily the coral stays fairly still...but the fish keep moving. This was fun to do because it was so colorful. I spent a lot of time on this sketch and tried using several layers.

Don't worry. I didn't abandon my traditional sketching on paper. I'll post that sketch tomorrow.

Lobby Piano

Today while Jerry was doing physical therapy I went down to the lobby of the rehab facility. There is a great piano there sitting in the corner of the lobby. The other day there had been a pianist playing for the residents. I listened for a while and decided I would come back and sketch it at a later time. This was done with ArtRage on my iPad.

iPad Sketching

Last week I needed to have my car inspected and get new tires, so I headed over to Mavis Tires in Patchogue to have it done. I brought along my iPad figuring there would be a wait...and I was right. I can't complain since they are always so nice there. It was much more fun to sketch the view out the window of the cars being worked on than sit and watch the TV which is set on the local news channel which repeats the same news every 5 minutes or so. lol I can always use some iPad sketching practice.