Rutgers Marine Research Center

Field trip with Marie  Sept 22

Bennys landing

Did this from a photo I took last summer (in a previous post here).
It's plein air by proxy!

Higbee Beach

Diane and I got a little break from the heat painting at zhigbee yesterday afternoon. Nice breeze and the water was warm.

Bay view

5x7. Brought a small kit on my bike ride, and even though half the water spilled over everything in the bag, including the paper, I managed this.

Ref photos: Villas

 Some photos from a weekend ride along the bay and through Cox Hall Creek. (Used to be called the Villas Wildlife Management area, but I guess people can't stand for anything nice to have the name "Villas"! I call it "Beer World," because the land was first bought, fenced, and developed by a Schmidt's heir.)

SJ plein air painters' schedule

From Karoline, here are the locations for the rest of August:

Tuesday August 14 – 7am Wildwood Boardwalk Shiller’s Avenue

Thursday August 16^th – 7am Cape May Beach Ave near Convention Center

Tuesday August 21^st – 7am Cape May near Coast Guard

Thursday August 23 – 7am Cape May Ferry

Tuesday August 28^th – Beach Plum Farm / Stevens road

reference photos: delaware bay, villas

SJ plein air group upcoming locations

Tues 8/14
7 a.m. Wildwood Boardwalk and Schiller's Avenue
12 noon 2nd Street Pavilion

Thurs 8/16  & Thurs 8/23
Location tbd

Tues 8/28
7 a.m. Beach Plum Farm

reference photos: cape may point

reference photos: Jackson Street

Tiny Tiki

So, here's an idea: lets get some people together and charter one of the Tiny Cruise Line boats for a painting adventure!

http://tinycruiseline.com/

The Virginia

Diane and I spent a couple of hours on Jackson Street today--perfect day for it.

 This is my sketch, which I drew first, but painted after doing the painting below, trying to be looser and less detailed.

9x12 Fabriano rough. I liked the way the paint settled into the texture, but there is very little lifting ability ...

Reference photos to come.

June 6-7 Cape May Reference Photos

Direct painting

I added Citizen Sketcher to the blogroll, right. 

It's really worth looking at. 1. For the beautiful paintings, 2. For the artist's commentary: each painting is followed by "what works" and "what doesn't work," which is a model worth emulating.

I signed on to Citizen Sketcher's FB page, #30x30directwatercolor2018, where I can see the work of other direct painters.

I painted these sketches last week to post there-- though I have to admit, they are not 100% "direct"! There are pencil guidelines.

What worked: I sat down to paint! And, in the first one, I like how the shallow water turned out. Painting that translucent blue water with the sand underneath always confounds me. Here, i painted it blue and while it was still wet, added a few streaks of raw sienna. That simple.
What didn't work: "direct" doesn't mean slapdash! I painted these too quickly, without much thought, and it shows, especially in the allover too unsubtle color.

Marie's class, June 6-7

Beautiful weather, great demos, lots of fun.

Let's try to keep it up!

Municipal boat launch, 8x12

 Municipal boat launch, 8x12

 

Cape May Point State Park, 12 x16