If there ever were a perfect day to meet at a beach, sit on a log, sketch, visit, and eat, it was last Tuesday, May 27. Other than the mock-drowning we witnessed (the underwater park for scuba diving is located in the waters there), and the little 3-year old who sat down with us to draw, there were no distractions. Just enough sun, just enough clouds, just the right temperature. Did we think of anything but what we were seeing, experiencing? I don't think so. I'll have to ask my drawing buddies if our time there was timeless for them, too. Here's my page of sketches. Beneath that, an adjusted (at home) photo I took. Highly recommended to all of you artists: get outside to sketch this summer!
Pitt Artist's Pen "S" and watercolor on cold press watercolor paper, 6"x9". This is a journaling format I like and encourage students to try, which is to have one large sketch and one or more small sketches done in the same sitting, of detailed subjects. One then records multiple aspects of an experience or a place.
Jocelyn Curry 
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