Sketching the Six Overlooks

This past Sunday we walked the 3.7 miles long Mario Cuomo Bridge span from Tarrytown Landing to Rockland before heading north to South Nyack.  There was a Street Fair going on that day, unbeknown to us, which we enjoyed seeing anyway.  Nice to see the crowd coming back to doing normal activities and injecting life into this vibrant river town.  We nourished ourselves with good food knowing we would need it for the reverse trek on the bridge. 

On the way back, I asked for a 10 minute sketch break at the Fish & Ships Overlook.  Finished it at 4:30 pm before walking to the next overlook.

I sketched at the Palisades Overlook for about 10 minutes as well.  This one finished at 4:52pm.

Next, at Painter's Point Overlook, I was negotiating for more time than the 5 minutes she would give me to sketch.  We were getting closer to the cable-stayed main span.  It was 5:08 pm I wrote on this sketch.

Some 15 minutes later, we were at the River Crossing Overlook.  The cables toward the main part of the bridge was just amazing to see.

Then we arrived at the Half Moon Overlook a short time later where I finished sketching the curve of the bridge and the deep view of the river below.  It was about 5:38 pm.  We were getting close to the destination!

We finally reached the Tides of Tarrytown Overlook and I sketched there for about 8 minutes.  Our walking adventure was coming to a close.  It was about 5:51 pm.

We read that the entire span walk is about 80 minutes.  Well,  I had fun doing these quick-sketch-stops at certain intervals.  Our legs and hips were kinda sore from the walking but it was nice to do it on a beautiful fall weekend weather like it was that day.  Note that I added some line shading to the sketches and defined the lines some more when we got home.