Last Tuesday my plein air group, PALS, went to the Suffolk County Farm to paint. It was windy and cold so my goal was to find someplace to sit where the wind was blocked. I ended up sitting next to one of the small barns and I had this view in front of me. I wasn't crazy about it until the sun came out and it lit up the area and created great shadows. I was really happy with the way it came out.
The NYC Urban Sketchers are not meeting this weekend due to the holiday, but we have a theme of "light" for the holiday weeks. The idea of light is open to interpretation. I thought of the lights and shadows that were falling on the snow we had. Luckily I went out and did a few sketches of it because we had a lot of rain which washed away all except the largest piles. This was a small walkway in Bayport going to a town dock along one of the tiny canals. I focused on the foliage along the path and the shadows against the white of the snow.
