Continuous Line with Shading

 I did a lobster recently as a continuous line sketch. Shh...don't tell anyone but I gave him/her an extra antenna. It is a challenge to do a continuous line when the model keeps moving. 

Special Treats

Recently I went to a car show in Babylon. There were old and new cars, but I was attracted to this 1955 Chevy Bel Air. While I was sketching the owner came over to see what I was doing. There was a lot about this model that attracted me. 

Dinner that night was a special treat. My model went into the pot shortly after

Printing Project - Part 2

Next we moved on to colored prints. Everyone decided which color they wanted to use on their block from the colors of ink we had. I picked orange ink for my lobster. 

Mark, Maureen, and Casey at work.

The colored prints were done on a blue/black fabric.

And then printed on a blue/green fabric.

Printing Project Part 1

Every year for the last few years the Patchogue Sketch Club has taken part in an outdoor festival called Arts on Terry. We always do a group project. This year we are doing a printing project. Each of the members carved a plate of something having to do with under the sea. We have printed the plates together on fabric. The first ones were done with blue ink on an orangy fabric.

Here is my lobster plate ready for printing. 

Here are the other plates that were printed.

Janet's seahorse.

Marianne's scuba cat.

Rosanne's underwater scene.

Laurie's fish.

Casey's koi.

Here they are printed on the fabric.

Then we printed using black ink on a blueish fabric.

The contrast in some areas wasn't quite as good as on the orange.

 

Lobster

Every once in a while one of these creatures makes an appearance and sits as a model for me. 

I am very thankful.

A Friend for Dinner

We haven't had whole lobsters for dinner at home in a long while so it was fun to sketch this guy.

 

Lobster

For those of you who have followed my blog for a long time, you may have noticed the lack of lobster sketches in the past few years. Between the pandemic and the prices on things, lobster dinners at home haven't happened in a while. Last week one of the local stores had a "sale" on lobsters, even though the price was quite a lot higher than we had paid the last time. But both of us lobster lovers here decided to get them for dinner anyway. Of course I had to sketch one of them before he/she went into the pot.

 

Beach & Dinner

 Beach sketch are among my favorite things to do. I sat in my mobile studio to capture some of the people who also came to the beach on one of the warmer days recently. People were sitting and watching the water as well as taking a walk at Smith Point Beach.

This week I celebrated my birthday and since we really couldn't go out to dinner, I called a local fish store and had dinner prepared there to bring back home...you can see what we had. I sketched the lobster as soon as I got home and painted it after we ate. I saved the shells for a little inspiration.

30 x 30 Direct Watercolor - Day 29

Today's Direct Watercolor is part of my dinner. It is rare for us to come up to Maine and not have lobster for dinner at least once. 

#directwatercolor2019 #30x30directwatercolor

This afternoon I walked into town to do a sketch...planning to do one last direct watercolor. I didn't want to drag my whole backpack with me so I just took a few things. When I got across from this breakfast/bakery spot I realized I had left my watercolors back at the house. So I sketched this in ink on site and added color when I got back to the house. That's what happens when I change bags. lol

Last Lobster

Lobsters were on sale at the supermarket last week so I figured I'd better grab a few before the price goes back up. This little fellow posed nicely for me. I didn't have to keep moving him back to the correct spot. :)

#30x30DirectWatercolor2018 - Day 29 - Dinner

#30x30DirectWatercolor2018 is nearly over. Today's painting is dinner too.

Maine Dinner

It is hard for me to go to Maine and not have lobster. The prices up there have jumped a bit. Apparently lobsters are now popular in Japan, so the prices at the markets are the price they are charging the Japanese. Since we don't get up there that often, we did buy them. This one kindly posed for me. He was like a frisky kid and kept trying to get away. lol

#lobster

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 7 - Lobster

Just because I'm doing animals it doesn't mean it also has to be a pet. Right now I am visiting family up in Maine, and a Maine trip wouldn't be right without having lobster for dinner at some point. I had no qualms about sketching the poor thing before his demise.

For this painting I used watercolors, my Elegant Writer pen which bleeds to a nice blue grey, and a black brush pen. 

You can check out the other paintings for the challenge here on Leslie Saeta's blog:

https://www.saetastudio.com/30-in-30-blog

Tonight I also did a sketch for the Wet Canvas Scavenger Hunt which I have been neglecting. We are given 26 items to sketch in whatever medium we wish. We post them as we do them. This sketch counts for a door, a corner of a room, a lamp, a comfortable place to sit, a pillow, and some books. It is a fun way to get in practice sketching all sorts of items you would probably never draw. 

Lobster

Memorial Day Weekend I bought lobsters for dinner. I usually sketch one (or more) of them before they go swimming in the big pot.

Twins

I bought lobsters for dinner the other day. There were four of them but I only sketched two. They make good models.

Lobster

Last week I bought a lobster for dinner...but it wasn't your usual size lobster. The lobsters were on sale and the large lobsters were less per pound than the smaller ones. How could I resist a bargain? The sketch doesn't show his size too well...

so here is a photo that does.

He weighed in at 7.11 pounds. I had to go out and buy a pot to cook him in. lol