Weekend Sketching at Red Hook, NY

Left the apartment early Saturday morning to get to catch the 9:54am ferry to Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.  It felt like the last NYC USk outing we did here several years ago.  The ferry landing now is further away by 8 blocks from where it was before.  There were six of us in our group who made this schedule and met up with others who got to the venue by other transport means.

The social club building on Reed Street was fun to sketch.  It has all these nautical pieces bolted on the front side as well as an old Lincoln car that seem to have been sitting there for years.  I spent most of the morning sketching this on a pre-marked page of my sketchbook.  By 1:00 pm, we all headed down to meet up with other sketchers and friends who were there to see the BWAC Exhibit.  Four USk friends are actually exhibiting their works so it was nice to see them there.

The pen and ink sketch of the old Red Hook Dock was done in the afternoon an hour before we did the show and tell.  It was just the perfect day to be there!

 

The Rye Free Reading Room

First time ever to be inside the Rye Public Library and it happened this past weekend.  We both settled in the comfy chair by the fireplace and went about our interests.  Her catching up on the WSJ and NYT periodicals while I sketch what was in front of me.  I saw a librarian gazing at the computer screen, a gentleman at the far the back arranging the books to put back on the shelf and a patron looking at some other periodicals.

The Education Building at the Queens Botanical Gardens

It was the second sketch I made at the Queens Botanical Gardens using a pre-marked page with some colored markers, too.  Always interesting to see what comes out of the experimentation.  Sometimes, it's an outright winner but always learning on those pieces that didn't cut it like this one.

Henna Hands of Fahima

Two weeks ago, at the Queens Botanical Gardens park entrance, I helped welcome and made name labels for the attendees coming in by car for our First Annual NYC USk Summer Celebration event.  The park entrance attendant was a junior college lady named Fahima, from Bangladesh, who wants to become a teacher someday.  I noticed she has these beautiful henna hands that she decorated herself for the Eid al-Adha.  It was so beautiful, I had to ask permission to sketch them which she accepted.