NEW YORK CITY, NY - USA - [RESULTS]

Saturday September 19th 2009
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We had gorgeous weather in New York for the SketchCrawl. A small group of people met up on Governors Island, a short ferry ride away from Manhattan/Brooklyn. Thanks to sunilo for organizing the meeting point.

Here are my sketches from the day; hope to see the others post as well!

Before heading down to the island, I stopped at Republic at Union Square for a quick lunch. Sketched the scene looking north toward 18th Street while waiting for food:

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Then I headed down to the ferry terminal to catch the boat to Governors Island. Rode with a crowd of bicyclists eager to take their wheels out to the car-free paths on the island:

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On the island, sketched these large sculptures near the tents set up for the New Island Festival-related events:

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I then set up my stool in a shady area near Castle Williams and sketched the building and the skyline:

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As I sat on the ferry waiting to go back to Manhattan, I did a quick sketch of the huge red structures above the docks:

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(Sketches done with Lamy Safari and Pilot Varsity pens using Noodler's ink in Lexington Gray; colored with watercolors.)
All in all, a wonderful SketchCrawl day!

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-- thank for sharing these colourful sketches, sumacm, AND adding some "pen and ink details", too.
We are always nosy on / about that ;)

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Nice watercolours! I like how you've captured the busyness in the first drawings, also the sculptures one with all the trees greenery on the back!
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Great trees!They must have taken some time?
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Fantastic colors and lines. Great job.

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Wonderful! :) wonderful line, energy and color...
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Thanks, everyone!
briantbear: Yes, the trees did take some time -- getting the right "greens" for trees and plants in watercolor is something that I am trying to work on, as it's a challenge for me.
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beautiful watercolors~!
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It was nice to meet everybody at Governor's Island this Saturday. I hope everybody enjoyed sketching (or at least enjoyed the art festival. I didn't have the most productive Crawl, but here's a one drawing from the art festival.

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Great stuff, as always, Suma! I especially like the view of the skyline.
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beautiful imagery suma and sunilo! so vibrant, so distinct!

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sumacm
Wow! what wonderful series of sketches! So gorgeous.
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It is fascinating! Nice atmosphere.
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awesome! thank you for sharing!
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Lovely work from Governer's Island! Sumacm, great depth to your shadows on the building. It's also cool to see two different artists' takes on the same scene.

Wish I had time to join you there, but I ended up with a few pages done in Flushing Meadows/Corona Park in Queens with a handful of people who ventured out. We hung out near the Unisphere and other remnants of the World's Fair. These were done with a Pilot V-ball pen in my tiny moleskine wanna-be sketchbook. We also checked out the cool scale model of the 5 boroughs in the Panorama exhibit at the Queens Museum.

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Nice sketches, Sunil and Alisa!

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