Autumn in Bayport

 I am starting to find a little more color around my area. Does that mean there is more to come? I hope so!

A Bit of Color

 Every once in a while I spy some color off in the distance. I think this came out a little brighter than IRL.

Autumn Colors

I was afraid that by the time we arrived home all the autumn colors would be gone. I must say that we missed most of it. Here and there you can find part of a tree that is brightly colored by it seems that many of the leaves have already fallen and that the colors are really a muted brown. I don't know if the strange weather we had is the reason for this, but I was happy when I found this tree on South Country Road heading into East Patchogue.

Antica Trattoria Poste Vecie

 This restaurant, Antica Trattoria Poste Vecie catches my attention every time I see it. It is right by the Rialto Fish Market so I have passed it, and photographed it many times. I think this was the first time I sketched it. When I posted it on FB my brother (who was in Venice in Sept) posted his photo of it under my sketch. lol To make things more amusing, right before I left for Venice there had been a Hallmark movie about a woman in Venice and in the story her friend's family owns this restaurant and they show it in the movie. lol It just keeps popping up.

One of the items I needed to sketch for the scavenger hunt I was doing at the end of the trip was a child. Most of the time kids don't stay still long enough to sketch them. I was on the vaporetto sketching this scene when a woman happened to come inside carrying her child. There was still a little room on the page so I squeezed the baby in on the right side of the page (and part of the woman too).

Textures Everywhere

 It was a damp, drizzly day so I hid under one of the sotoportegos, which are passageways that go underneath a building in Venice. The lighting wasn't too good and the view wasn't the best...but I wasn't getting wet. lol Over the far wall you could glimpse a canopy of some sort. I wonder what it was for.

While I was away I was dabbling a little in Procreate. Most of what I sketched that way was for the Scavenger Hunts on creativespark.art. I did a few things...

like this feather...

and a bit of the living room at the apartment. I don't know why this chair (and its matching partner) were so short. There were several seats that were much smaller than normal.

On the plane from Rome to JFK I pulled out my iPad to sketch. There were two people sitting one row ahead of me and across the aisle. I figured we were on a plane and I had a captive model. I started sketching this guy, but at some point he got up and moved to a different empty seat in front of me, so the sketch never got finished. I'll share it anyway.

This sketch below was for the last scavenger hunt...fruit and a leaf, done after I came home.

Happy Hour in Venezia

 I think Happy Hour in Venice lasts most of the day. There are usually people hanging around these bars and restaurants having drinks and enjoying it.

Flags Flying

 I believe the flag on the left is the Venetian flag, the one in the middle is the Italian flag, and I believe the one on the right is the European Union flag. This hotel was proudly displaying all of them.