A cloudy overcast day surrounded all the artists as we set up our easels and equipment to paint plein air at the beautiful Leonard Buck Garden, a Somerset, New Jersey County Park.  Many of the artists were interested in painting the small bridge and waterfalls.  There was a chill in the air, but the "end of season" leaves were still very colorful, and we were all excited...ready to capture nature on canvas. 

I set up my video equipment next to Howard, hoping to get his entire painting process. Then I returned to my easel to paint.  We painted for about 3 hours and I completed two small painting studies which are shown here on my blog. 

Afterwards, I took some video of each artist along with their finished painting.  Howard’s beautiful, peaceful painting included the brook, soft gray trees and a glimpse of the bridge.  Susan’s painting was lovely and included a wooden park bench surrounded by the beautiful vibrant colors of autumn’s last leaves.

At the end of the day Howard and Susan offered to critique each of our paintings which was a wonderful surprise!  All in all we had a fun-filled plein air paintout day! 

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