Went out to Caramoor yesterday afternoon -- it's a lovely Mediterranean-style villa surrounded by beautiful gardens in Katonah, N.Y. We strolled around the gardens and listened to the music of pianist Vladimir Feltsman.


















(Lamy Safari w/ Noodler's ink in Lexington Gray, Winsor & Newton artists' watercolors, and Staedtler Karat Aquarell watercolor pencils in Holbein Multi-Drawing sketchbook.)

Yes, I know I haven't posted in some time, but I have been sketching!
Here are a few sketches done over the Fourth of July weekend in Mystic, CT. There was a man attempting to put up a sail, and as he kept circling around the same area while doing so, it gave me an opportunity to get the major shapes down.

I also liked the way an abandoned boat looked, aground on the shore, so I added a sketch of that as well.















Some swans decided to sun themselves on the little beach near my in-laws' house:

















And this is a super-fast sketch done this past Saturday while sitting on the Lambertville, NJ, side of the bridge that takes pedestrians and cars across to New Hope, PA:

















(Lamy Safari/Noodler's ink in Lexington Grey; colored later with Staedtler Aquarell watercolor pencils.)