Palms

Everglades Palms

6x6 oil on panel

Had a sweet day painting by the Marco Island bridge yesterday. This is just a sketch of the shoreline at the edge of the Everglades.

It was a bit overcast and windy which is my favorite kind of Florida weather! 

Just Sketching

I bought some of those cool sketching pens you can use with paints and started doing some pen and ink sketches for my Gallery the Art Boutique at Tin City. The original watercolor of Joanie's Blue Crab Cafe was painted last Spring and I did this pen and ink w/c this afternoon. This is a fabulous little Road House out on Rte 41 in the Everglades. If you want to see some fantastic pen and ink watercolors check out Urban Sketchers and their links. Drawing is so important and we artists tend to want to get right to the paint. It's almost like the drawing part is the sit ups and the paint is the pool ;)

Joanie's Blue Crab Cafe

I have lots of photos of this little Roadhouse out in the Everglades. Thirty miles out to be exact. On my joyride out there last Friday I made a note of the mileage. It was the first time I ever saw this place open complete with live music and a buncha Massachusetts license plates out front. Sweet. Tomorrow I am meeting a couple of artists and we're going out there to paint. Every time I drive by this place I think of my friend Joanie.