This Wednesday at 7PM

This week we are going to sketch at the Roast Coffee and Tea Company on Main Street in Patchogue, just a few doors West of the Patchogue theater...I was there on Saturday and they were roasting up some fresh batches of coffee beans.....heavenly.

Happy New Year!

Sketch Club is taking a Holiday Break

Ho ho ho!  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

This week we will be taking a Holiday Break.  Please post any sketches that you've completed over the holiday on our Facebook page.

Have a great week and see you January 2nd!

This Wednesday at 6:30 PM

Folks,

This week we are going to Quench on 90 W Main Street in Patchogue, across from the Brick House Brewery.  Quench is the local wine boutique and they welcome us to come and sketch there....speaking from experience, wine bottles may have a simple design but they are a challenge to sketch....so if you are interested in a challenge, bring your chair and come on out to Quench.  Queen City cupcakes is a few doors down if you want to stop there first for coffee or an absolutely devine hot chocolate.

This Wednesday December 12th at 7PM

OK, folks, you are in for another treat.....A new place opened up in town, the Hoptron Brewtique, 22 W Main Street, Patchogue....

We will be sketching there this Wednesday evening, come join us!

This week at 6:30 PM on Wednesday December 5th

Folks, 

To start off the holiday month....this week we are going to sketch at Queen City Cupcakes.....for those that haven't attended a sketch night at Queen City....it's not just cupcakes...this little shop had LOTS of cool stuff to sketch.....there are places to sit and enjoy coffee/tea and/or a treat and sketch some really cool stuff.

62 West Main Street, Patchogue, across from Brick House Brewery.

This Wednesday at 7PM

Folks, we are going to Sketch at the Sayville Diner, at 136 Main Street in Sayville at 7PM (across from the Rite Aid....)...great old-fashioned style diner.   Hopefully they have their holiday decorations up....

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi everyone!

I am not posting an "official" spot to sketch tonight as it is the day before Thanksgiving and I am sure many of you have traveling or chores to do for the hoilday.

What I would like to put out there....a Thanksgiving Sketch, if you wish.....to post on our Facebook group page the holiday sketches you may have done....

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving.....see you next week!

Gina

Reminder - Tonight - Gather Studio

Folks,
This Wednesday at 6:30 PM....Inside venue so the rain shouldn't postpone anything....
We will be at Gather Studio:
83 East Main Street - Suite 5, Patchogue....The entrance is between the Patchogue Theater and the Church.

This week postponed until next week

Folks, 

We are moving our Gather Studio outing until next week due to this weather that we are having again....

Same bat time, same bat channel, next week....

G

This Wednesday at 6:30 PM

Folks,
This Wednesday at 6:30 PM....Inside venue so the rain shouldn't postpone anything....
We will be at Gather Studio:
83 East Main Street - Suite 5, Patchogue....The entrance is between the Patchogue Theater and the Church.

Get out of the house and away from cabin fever to come out and sketch!

This Wednesday- Halloween

Folks, 

Due to the storm, and the aftermath...and with the possibilty of rain still happening on Wednesday....I am unfortunately canceling Wednesday's sketch outing at Joan's house....I am sending this out while everyone still has power.  What bum luck we are having this storm this year.

Next Wednesday is going to be at Gather Studio....you can go to www.patchoguesketchclub.blogspot.com for more info later in the week about Gather Studio in case you need to access info another way due to power outages and such.

Good luck.  Stay dry, keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best.

This Wednesday at 7PM

Just a reminder that we will be at the Sayville Modern Diner at 136 Main Street tomorrow night at 7PM (across from the Rite Aid....)...great old-fashioned style diner.

Reposting the calendar for this month:

Wednesday the 17th, Sayville Modern Diner at 7PM

Wednesday the 24th, SBAA Meeting with Julianna Kirk at 7PM at the Community Center in Bellport...should be a good demo and good sketching fodder

Wednesday the 31st.....Halloween....brahaha.....location TBA but sketching will be 9-2.

Wednesday November 7th, 6:30 to 8PM  Gather Studio

Mark your calendars folks....

Future Outing to put on your schedules

On November 7th 6:30 to 8PM, we are going to sketch at the Gather Studio on Main Street in Patchogue....mark your calendars....I will post more specific info closer to that date.

Schedule for the rest of the month

Wednesday the 17th, Sayville Modern Diner at 7PM

Wednesday the 24th, SBAA Meeting with Julianna Kirk at 7PM at the Community Center in Bellport...should be a good demo and good sketching fodder

Wednesday the 31st.....Halloween....brahaha.....location TBA but sketching will be 9-2.

Mark your calendars folks....

This Wednesday October 10th at 7PM

This week we are going to the Patchogue bowling alley:

The address is:

Bowl Long Island at Patchogue

138 West Ave

Patchogue 11772

It's located at the intersection of West Ave and Division Street...just South of Main Street, walking distance from the Patchogue train Station.

This Wednesday Oct 3rd at 7PM

I know some of you have other committments and I am hoping that 7PM is convenient for you.  With the sun setting earlier and it looks like there may be rain on Wednesday, I am scheduling us for an indoor venue.  I was hoping we could do a full moon sketching event but rain would wash that out.

We will be sketching at the Roast Coffee and Tea Company in Main Street in Patchogue...a few doors west of the theater.  

I hope there is parking because that is becoming more an more of an issue in Patchogue these days.   There should be parking behind the shop if there isn't on Main Street, and there should be parking behind the library as well, across the street.

Hope to see you there........

This Wednesday Sept 19 at 6PM

First, we want to say we had a great sketch night at Carol Amodeo's house last week.    We are very grateful we had the opportunity to sketch there, Thank you Carol!  We loved it and we would love to come back again!

2nd... It's supposed to rain on Wednesday.  For those of you wishing to sketch, we will schedule the Roast Coffee and Tea Company this week for sketch night and if the rain lets up, there are many places on Main Street to sketch.   Please email or FB each other to let each other know if you can  make it or not...

Hey you landscape painters!.....try challenging yourself with sketching people in the coffee shop or a store front aka cityscape on Main Street...you may be surprised what you learn from the exercise!   Changing it up is good!

Stay dry!  Post those sketches on our FB group page!

This Wednesday September 12 at 6:30PM

We will be sketching this week at Carol's house at 97 S Country Road in East Patchogue.  Bring a chair and come and sketch with us.

This Wednesday September 5th at 6:30 PM

WOW, this next outing is September already.....REALLLY?????  Where did the summer go?

This week, hopefully the weather holds up...we are going to sketch/paint/do studies down by the bay at the end of Pine Neck Ave in Patchogue....Pine Neck is best accessed from South Country Road....

Coming from Sayville's direction...take Montak Highway to South Country Road....(Intersection is at the Swan Cleaners)....Take South Country road to the 2nd right and turn right on Pine Neck Ave....take Pine Neck Ave all the way down to the end where the guard rail/dead end is and turn into the park there.   We will be sketching there.

Bring insect repellent and a chair....this is a great spot for sunsets but also has a scruffy beach with beach grasses which makes an interesting subject, especially in the evening,

Find us on Facebook and see what we've been doing on sketch night!

This Wednesday August 29th at 6:30PM

We are going back to Sayville to the Maritime Museum to sketch/paint again....the location is awesome for sunsets.....if the weather is iffy by Tuesday, I will post an alternate location.

http://limaritime.org/LIMM%20Direx.pdf

This Wednesday at 6:30 PM

Ok, the weather was bad last week, let's try the Maritime Museum again...looks like we may actually get a sunset tomorrow evening.

http://limaritime.org/LIMM%20Direx.pdf

The museum is closed in the evenings but there is still access to the grounds in the evening...

This Wednesday August 15th at 6PM

Weather permitting....if the weather turns out to be severe in the evening, as they are calling for thunderstorms...stay indoors and sketch something around the house.  Better to stay safe.

We are going to the Long Island Maritime Museum this week.  There's lots to sketch there including sunsets, if the weather holds out.

http://limaritime.org/LIMM%20Direx.pdf

The museum is closed in the evenings but there is still access to the grounds in the evening...

This Wednesday, Aug 8, at 6PM

We are going to the Patchogue Shores Community Center down by the water so sketch.  This outing is being hosted by member Roseanne O'Reilly for us...here are the directions:

(Patchogue Shores):
Traveling West on Montauk Highway (from Patchogue), turn right at Swan Cleaners, onto South Country Road.  Over the Railroad tracks, travel about one mile.  Turn right onto Roosevelt Blvd., guard booth and Liquor Store and Bay Travel on the corner.  Go through three stop signs, after the third stop sign, turn left onto Summit.  Summit turns into Ocean Avenue.  Take this to the end, you will see the gate open on the right, take that into the parking lot of the community center.

Bring insect repellent.

This Wednesday at 6PM

This week we will be going to the West Sayville Boat Basin...

 

Here is the link for the directions to the West Sayville Boat Basin http://www.boatbasin.com/directions1.html.  Please park in the parking lot of the Red Building on the right side of Clyde and Walk through gate on far left corner of parking lot.  If anybody has questions they can call CindyFox at  631-338-3480.

Folks, look for my car with the Phillies logo on the back, that's where the gate will be to get in or call Cindy for our location. (Gina)

Thanks to Cindy for researching the location!

Sketch Club this week

We are taking a summer break this week!  See you next week!

This Wednesday at 6:30 PM

Folks,

This week we are going to try the village again.   You can sketch on Main Street from Quench to the Theater area if it's nice out....if it rains we'll meet at Queen City Cupcakes and sketch there until they close at 8.  NOTE: If we do get hit with a severe thrunderstorm during the sketch time, please consider the evening canceled.   It's better to be safe than to drive out into a severe storm.  

Don't forget to bring a chair or find a bench and sketch the town. 

This Wednesday July 11th at 6:30 PM

Folks, we are going to sketch from the Ranger Station on Laurel St and Argyle Ln in Patchogue, on the  East side of the Patchogue River....we sketched here in the spring and it was chilly, I am hoping it will be nicer on Wednesday.

There are benches and docks, also a fire boat....there is parking slots on Laurel.

This Wednesday, Independence Day

Folks, because Wednesday is a holiday we won't be sketching, however I enourage you do partipate in our Independence Day Challenge.  Sketch some of your Independence Day Activities this week and either post them on our Facebook Page or email them to me (or both) and I will post them on the blog (not everyone sees the FB group).

Also, a reminder that SBAA is having their Annual Artists on the Lane.... you can read more about it below on Patch written by Roseanne or you can go to the links below....if you are looking to sell some work, check it out.

http://patchogue.patch.com/blog_posts/july-4th-annual-artists-on-the-lane-exhibit-and-sale-in-bellport

www.bellort.com/sbaa                       southbayart@gmail.com                southbayart.blogspot.com

This Wednesday 6/27 at 6PM

Folks, SBAA is having their monthly meeting at 7:15PM and after they are doing Artist Trading Cards.  We will have our sketch at 6PM in Bellport then move on over to the ATC gathering.  The meeting is at at the Bellport Community Center, 4 Bell St. Bellport, NY.   

You can sketch Main Street or down by the water before the meeting.

This Wednesday at 6:30 PM

Going to sketch at Flo's/Corey Beach to beat the heat!

Sketch Group canceled for tonight

Folks, I am canceling this evening due to the weather...they say it's supposed to clear up but I don't see it happening yet, so we'll postpone this outing to next week. 

New Sketch Showcased

If you haven't noticed, the picture for the blog has changed.  Tom DeGruyl, a long time Patchogue Sketch Club member, has done this beautiful sketch of a bird's nest.  We figured, with Spring in full swing...this   nice sketch of Tom's would be great to use as the main blog photo.

This Wednesday June 13th at 6:30PM

 It looks like it might be a rainy day.  Rainy days are tough to schedule. 

The Village of Patchogue is changing.    Before some of these changes take affect....I am going to suggest sketching on Main Street in Patchogue this week...if it's chilly, you can stop in Roast or Queen City Cupcakes for a coffee...or Quench/Brick House Brewery if you'd like to be warmed up in a different way.

"Boundaries" will be Quench to the Theater/Library and South Ocean to the Garden on Terry Street.

If you'd like, we can all meet at Roast at 8PM to show each other what we've done.

I am suggesting this sketch night in Patch because we are recording what we see in our sketches and the Village is taking on a new face...we are recording history in a way, so let's use this Wednesday to sketch the changes going on.  If it's raining, you can duck in any of the businesses to sketch from the inside, out.

This Wednesday at 6:30PM

Watching the weather, looks like there's a chance of thunderstorms...we'll take a chance and sketch down by the Maritime Museum in Sayville.  This way if it rains, you can sketch from your car.

http://www.limaritime.org/LIMM%20Direx.pdf

Hope to see you there!

This Wednesday at 6PM

This week we will be sketching at the very end of Blue Point Ave, by the water.  There is a Gazebo and some marsh that make it a nice place to sketch, there are also some nice sunsets here.  There are also some cute houses right in the vicinity as well.

  

We'll meet around 6PM.  Bring the insect repellent just in case.

This Wednesday at 6PM

This week we will be going to the West Sayville Boat Basin...

 

Here is the link for the directions to the West Sayville Boat Basin http://www.boatbasin.com/directions1.html.  Please park in the parking lot of the Red Building on the right side of Clyde and Walk through gate on far left corner of parking lot.  If anybody has questions they can call CindyFox at  631-338-3480.

Thanks to Cindy for researching the location!

Below are sketches by Bill Mueller completed on previous outings....

This Wednesday at 6PM

Sketch night at Flo's in Blue Point at Corey Beach...bring a chair, your sketchbook and sketching medium and an appetite!

This Wednesday at 6PM

It looks like it might be a rainy evening.  We are going to sketch in Patchogue down near Queen City Cupcakes.  For those of you not minding the weather, we can sketch Brick House Brewery (BHB) or structures down by BHB, like Quench or the Antique shop....if it rains and you want to come indoors, we will sketch in Queen City cupcakes to enjoy Carol's decorative shop and cupcakes, or you can cross the street and sketch in BHB and have a brew instead.....

Tomorrow at 6PM

Let's take a chance with the weather and sketch at a new spot I found...The Watch Hill Ranger Station at the intersection of Laurel St and Argyle Ln on the Patchogue River...not a bad spot actually.  We'll meet around 6PM.

This Wednesday April 25th at 6PM

As this is the fourth Wednesday of the month, SBAA will be having their meeting at 7:15 in Bellport.  So, to make it easy for folks to attend both sketch night and SBAA...we'll sketch in Bellport on Main street then head over to the meeting.  If it's chilly, you can sketch from your car.

This Wednesday April 18 at 6PM

We are going to meet this week in Sayville down by the water where if it's nice, we can sit out and sketch or have the option to sketch from our cars if it's chilly.

You need to take S Main St/Middle Road to Seaman Road. Follow Seaman Road South to Brown's River Road, which should be the 2nd road on your right. Take that to the the end until you reach the waterfront and we will be sketching there. It's a good location for either sketching from the car or out in the open.

Wednesday April 11th at 6PM

We are going to meet at the Bellport Dock at 6PM to sketch. There's plenty of space to park and sketch from our cars if the weather is less than favorable. The dock is at the end of Bellport Lane, down by the water.

This Wednesday at 6PM

We are going to sketch over at Post Morrow Homestead On Bay Ave...You take Montauk Highway from Bellport to Brookhaven Hamlet.....turn on Beaver Dam Road heading toward the water and make a right on Bay Ave...Post Morrow will be on the right...there's signs on the property....

This link also has a map...I notice there's also mention of a snowy owl on Fire Island....hmmmm, we may have to make an excursion over there.

http://postmorrow.org/index.html

It's not a bad place to sketch or do studies. There's water, landscape opportunities.

This Wednesday March 28th at 7:15PM

This week, a very special treat for sketch night...a demo by Larry Johnston... he will be working on a painting, showing how he uses a plein air sketch and reference photos, at 7:15 on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012, at the Bellport Community Center, 4 Bell St. Bellport, NY. Come out and sketch and see what you can do with those sketches afterwards!

This Wednesday at 6 PM MArch 21st

This week we will be sketching at the Sandspit Park in Patchogue, 80 Brightwood Street, this is also where the Davis Park Ferry Terminal is located. Just pick a spot and sketch from any place. There's plenty of great spots.

This Wednesday at 6 PM March 14th

Folks, this week, to celebrate the first week of daylight savings time, lets go to the Islip Grange at the intersection of Broadway and Montauk Highway in Sayville…it's a great sketching spot.

Tonight's sketches

For those of you who were brave enough to go down to sketch by the water this evening, please take photos of your sketches so I can post them on the blog…it was definitely "different." You can email them to the link on the blog...

This Wednesday at 7 PM

We are going to go to the TRY the evening outdoor sketching. It looks to be mild and clear for Wednesday. For those brave souls who want to brave the elements, bundle up... for the rest of us, sketching from your car will have to do.

We will be meeting at the Corey Beach area….down by the water. There is a dock toward the back that most of you are familiar with….great view of the night time sky and water for reflections.

There are some logistical issues with sketching in the dark….you will need light (obviously), something for your surface that won't interfere with your subject….you can pick up book lights for $10 at Bed Bath and Beyond that will work nicely. If you work in watercolor or color media, you will need to either light your palette or know you palette colors well to be able to use them in the dark. You might want to bring along that white tube of gouache for lights over darks.

For those of you who don't know Corey Beach, here's the location on the map.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=coreys+creek+park&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=Coreys+Creek+Park&hnear=Coreys+Creek+Park,+Blue+Point,+Suffolk,+New+York+11715&z=14

You can get to it by turning down Atlantic Ave in Blue Point, near the Mexican restaurant on Main St/Montauk Highway…very easy to get to….most of us have been there….

Oh, Flo's won't be open yet… get your coffee or tea before you arrive because there's nothing open down there this time of year.

Wednesday February 29 LEAP YEAR night at 6PM

Well, we've been watching the weather and was hoping we could get out to do some star gazing and some astronomy sketching….Jupiter and Venus are visible in the Western Sky and it would have been fun to try to capture (from our cars) the night sky. Alas, it looks like Wednesday is going to be a drippy sort of evening. Queen CIty Cupcakes has more new stuff to sketch, so we are going to go to Queen City Cupcakes this week. Again, for those who haven't been there, it's not all cupcakes, they have some really cool stuff in her shop.

Queen City Cupcakes...62 West Main Street, Patchogue (Across from Brick House Brewery)…

We'll try for the night sky sketching next week. For those of you that have IPhones, the pUniverse APP is awesome for finding cool stuff in the night sky.

This Wednesday at 7:15 PM

Folks, this week we having an opportunity to see and sketch a great demo....stop by to join the SBAA Members Meeting Wednesday Feb 22nd at 7:15 pm at the Bellport Community Center, 4 Bell St, Bellport to see a demo in fish printing...description below. Should be a great demo and sketch opportunity.

Chris Taylor will demonstrate this ancient art form!

fromWikipedia:

Gyotaku (Japanese 魚拓, from gyo "fish" + taku "rubbing") is a traditional form of Japanese fish printing or rubbing, dating from the mid-19th century, a form of nature printing used by fishermen to record their catches. In order to make a gyotaku print, one places the subject (e.g.fish, crab, scallop shell) on a wooden bench and paints one side with sumi ink. Next a piece of paper or other material is laid over the ink-covered fish. Finally, one rubs the material until there is the image of the fish on it.

Modern gyotaku artists often substitute acrylic or other painting material for the traditional sumi-e.

This Wednesday 2/15

Sorry, this week's sketch group gathering is canceled due to a death in Gina's family. However, you are encouraged to go out and sketch and we will post what you have done. See you next week.

This Wednesday from 7-9

We are going to sketch at Gina's house.

Bring your sketchbooks and preferred sketching medium and come hang out to sketch!

Anyone wishing to sketch at Gina's House, please send an email to JLento@optonline.net to request directions.

This Wednesday, February 1st at 7PM

This week we will be sketching at the Roast Coffee and Tea Company on 41 E Main Street in Patchogue, a few doors West of the Theater. There's usually a few good subjects to sketch along with drinking some great coffee and tea!

TONIGHT IS CANCELED

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the SBAA meeting is canceled, which means our sketch outing is canceled for this evening.

This Wednesday, January 25th 7:15

There is going to be an amazing demo with Chris Taylor this week at the SBAA meeting so we will be doing our sketch night there. Chris Taylor will be conducting a demo in fish printing - Gyotaku over a batik brackground on fabric, at 7:15 on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, at the Bellport Community Center, 4 Bell St. Bellport, NY....so bring the sketch gear and also be prepared to take notes.

This Wednesday, January 11th 7PM

We are going to Queen City Cupcakes from 5:30 to 7. For those who haven't been there yet and are wondering what the attraction is (the cupcakes are only part of it) Carol, who owns it, has some really intringuing things in her shop to sketch and she always adding and changing things. It's not just about the cupcakes….

Make some time to come out and sketch this neat little shop.

Sketch from December

I must give an apology to Joan Tavolott for not posting this sooner..this yummy sketch was completed at one of our outings at Queen City Cupcakes last month.

This Wednesday, January 11th 7PM

Folks,

Yes, I have scheduled it up..for those of you wishing to sketch the bowling alley, I have contacted the bowling alley (Bowl Long Island in Patchogue) to sketch there from 7-9PM this Wednesday.

The bowling alley is located on the corner of Division Street and 138 West Ave. Patchogue, NY 11772.

This Wednesday, January 4th 7PM

Happy New Year and I hope everyone's Holidays were awesome. We are going to start off the New Year with a Sketch Outing at Gina's house. The indoor decorations are still up, Tree will be up until next weekend so we can get our last Holiday sketches in…It will sort of be like a Holiday sketch party. :-)

Bring your sketchbooks and preferred sketching medium and come hang out to sketch!

Anyone wishing to sketch at Gina's House, please send an email to JLento@optonline.net to request directions.