Here is our 2015 Christmas Tree. I wanted to try something different when I sketched this….I had fun playing with different pens.
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 Well here is the first official sketch of the new year. I say “official” because it’s the first one I am posting. (Some things I am working on don’t get posted) 

I ended 2015 with a nasty sinus infection and spent all last week in a sinus induced fog. Today was the first day I got out to sketch and I had to do it from our rental car that stinks like an ashtray. Our Altima and a Bambi had a crossing of paths….actually Bambi did a swan dive over a hedge and onto the hood of our car. Bambi’s don’t bounce very well. Thud would be more accurate. Bambi didn’t make it and Altima is in the shop getting the front end replaced.

I sketched this today in Bellport.
 

Starbucks sketches. I was sitting facing the counter so I could get some quick sketches of folks making their orders……the lady with the spotted coat was my favorite person to sketch. The guy with the hood made me think of MR ROBOT.I didn’t have much time to do these….The amount of time I had depended on how much time it took to place an order.

   
    
    
    
    
   

   
 

Here are my sketches from the museum of Natural History in NYC
  

Yesterday’s sketch at Bayport Flower House
  

Today’s sketches done at a local Christmas tree lot
   
 

Some of my artist friends and I have taken up a bit of pop up sketching in places where you wouldn’t normally think to sketch.

Here’s one done at Lowe’s….

  

  
These are three tiny books I made for the the Christmas ornament fundraiser for the Paper Cup Studio in Bellport. It’s a Holiday project I have been working on in between other projects and in between Thanksgiving and holiday shopping. I will also be selling these tiny books through the month. They are roughly 2 in x 2 in bound or origami style books. I used bits and scraps I had around the house. They can actually be used to write or sketch in and you can put them on your tree or display around the house. 

I had a hard time photographing the nocturnal painting since it’s under acrylic and not non-reflective glass….you can see the lamp and such reflected in the lower right hand side but believe me when I say it looks much better in person. My favorite one that I did during the Bermuda Plein Air Event….these are all my paintings done during the event.