Arnold Desmarais & MOAS: Afternoon with Florida History

Arnold Desmarais, one of our in-gallery artists, does a quick pen-and-ink drawing video of a sugar mill plantation for MOAS! 

In this video, MOAS Senior Curator of Education and History, Zach Zacharias gives us a rich and brief overview of the surrounding sugar mill plantations of New Smyrna. Then Arnold uses his past experience of sketching European and far eastern ruins to start an on-location drawing of this Spanish sugar mill!

Check out the video to not only get a deep history of the New Smyrna plantation areas, but also a renowned painter’s process breakdown!