bike ride by the bay

... and here are the photos!

summer 2019

Let's start thinking of locations!

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

Studio revamp

Though I haven't been painting, or posting, much, it's not far from my mind!
I've been redoing my studio--painting, reorganizing and winnowing, building shelves ...
I wish I had taken before pictures!
The current lack of clutter will, I hope, be conducive to spending more time in here!

Wildwood crest beach

I've been missing the plein air outings due to work and heat ...
Spent an hour on the beach today and painting this using an ice cube as my water.
Couldn't get some of the edges I wanted as the paper started pilling ...

schedule for upcoming and following week

Wed 19th....7am –Nun's beach 

                             111 Street Stone Harbor (rocks)

                            12:00 lunch at Kathy's house 10205 First Ave

                           bring your own lunch and bathing suit

                           3:00 resume painting for sunset, will announce

Thurs 20th…..4pm - Willow Creek Winery West Cape May

                                           168 Stevens Street West Cape May

                                            drinks and snacks at Winery

Wed 26th …7am -  Port Republic or Basto ( will announce which)

Thurs 27th...4pm – Betsy Miraglia's House sunset painting,

                               view of Wildwood boardwalk across marshland

                               11837 Paradise Drive, Stone Harbor 08247