Thoughts on Vizcaya

 Hi Sketchers!

I travelled yesterday with Anna Maria to meet up with the Miami Urban Sketchers at Vizcaya, The Deering Estate and Museum.  Many Thanks to The Miami Urban Sketchers for allowing us to tag along.  The grounds were lovely.  I set to sketching right away and in three hours had a finished watercolor and second sketch in pencil of the landing that is now inked and waiting for some paint.  It was humbling to paint in a location where John Singer Sargent made watercolors a 100 years ago.  My painting was done perhaps a 100 feet from where Sargent did one of his paintings. of the Landing.  Next time I go I may work from the exact spot.  Growing up in Orange County NY and and spending many summer vacations on Cape Cod I have painted where Winslow Homer painted and where Edward Hopper painted.  There is something about painting at locations where these giants painted that makes them extra special.  I still paint like myself and don't try to copy any styles, but I somehow feel their presence like they left a mark on the landscape.

Sargent's painting of the landing at Vizcaya

My sketch is a closer detail of the small building over the bridge.

I'm hooked on the place.  I plan to go back a couple of times this summer. to paint in watercolor and then work in oil from those studies in the studio while its really hot out this summer.

Keep Making Art!

Carl

This week we are at Mizner Park in Boca Raton

 Hi Sketchers this week we'll be down in the Southern end of our range in Boca Raton at Mizner Park

Hello Sketchers!

Sunday we will be at Mizner park in Boca Raton.

About Mizner Park from Wikipedia:

Mizner Park is a high-end shopping, residential, and entertainment district located in the affluent downtown neighborhood of Boca Raton, FL. The district consists of a collection of high-end shops and restaurants with luxury apartments built in a Mediterranean Revival architectural style. Wikipedia

Located in: Downtown Boca Raton

We will meet up by the Gazebos in the Center of Mizner Park at 10:30 on Sunday with a thrown back at the gazebos at 12:30

Last Sunday we were in West Palm at the train train station. opened in 1925 for the Orange Blossom Special out of NY it still serves today as a train station for Amtrak and Tri-rail as well as a bus station We had a good turnout and some beautiful work was done.

Keep on Sketching

Carl