Sunday, October 28, 2018

Plein air

This summer and early fall a few of us at the Sussex County Art Society have been having fun doing plein air sketches.  They are necessarily fast  and sometimes furious, trying to capture a scene quickly.  I have learned how much lighter colors are outdoors than in a photograph in my studio.   The experience of painting outdoors is one of great fun, and always a challenge to use ones skills.  It also reveals the painters unvarnished style.

The SCAS  picnic in June

Founders park at the fairgrounds in Augusta



Memorial park, Lafayette showing the Walkill river as a stream.

An early fall scene  deep inside Stokes state forest.


Another scene, an old barn, from Lafayette memorial park.