Mixed Foliage

I like when shrubs are surrounded by other foliage. This is one of the piney trees down by the bay in Sayville.

 

Snow Shadows

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.

Smith Point View

Yesterday was a warm, breezy day so I headed over to Smith Point Park. It was too windy to go down on the beach so I sat in the parking lot along the edge of the dunes and sketched the sky and the foliage.

Travels in Maine Part II

I stand corrected. This morning when we walked into town we came across this pumpkin which weighed in at 1,055 pounds!!! I don't know how they lift them to get them into place. Each of them has a card listing the grower, the artist(s) and the weight. This is the biggest one we found so far. They are on display in front of a lot of the businesses in town.

Today our travels took us up north about 40 minutes to Rockland. We weren't sure if it would be warm enough to sit outside to paint so we bundled up again. It was just tolerable!

Here are Mickey and Tina sitting on a bench. Mickey was already finished and Tina was putting the finishing touches on her painting. 

I faced a different direction from them looking at the rocks and trees.

Here is the painting with the view behind it.

By this time we were frozen and starving so we headed into town for lunch...yummy sea scallops at the Rockland Cafe. After lunch we headed slightly north to Camden which is again right along the water.

I painted the church with the steeple and some of the town buildings. We were sitting in the park so some of the park foliage is in the foreground.

Then we went shopping to warm up a bit.