"Monhegan Harbor" after Aldro Hibbard, pencil and ink

This past weekend, I spent a few hours at a fascinating conference on hunger and homeless.  Very interesting, packed with information from the Southeast Area Missions.  I bring my sketch book wherever I go, and found the time to do some sketches of lovely Monhegan Island, including the lower sketch which is my copy of Aldro Hibbard's painting of "Monhegan Harbor" of which I carry an image in my sketchbook.  It's so beautiful, and I love that I sit on the same rocks that Aldro Hibbard, Rockwell Kent, Winslow Homer and many, many others painted so well, so long ago.

 

Aldro Hibbard's "Monhegan Harbor"

Monhegan Sketchbook 2012

Here are a few more sketches from this past week on Monhegan Island.  The top two are from different chairs on our rental's deck.  First is looking west over the Trailing Yew to the Manana and the mainland, the latter being 12 miles away.

Next is a quicker sketch from the north end of the deck looking over the village and the Island Inn out to Allen Island.  

Last are a few gestures of local gulls.  They are plentiful and vocal.  The island is so narrow, you can watch them fly from the cliffs on the east, to the village on the west in a few seconds.  I love their sounds and plaintive cries.
We treat them each Friday after our traditional lobster feast. The children (now teens) deliver the buckets back to the steps of the fish market after emptying them of lobster detritus past the jetty and giving them a quick rinse.  Gull heaven.  The island is just plain heaven to me.  Thanks for looking.