My friend and fellow painter Danielle Hatherley is in town for a few weeks. While she is here, she’s teaching plein air workshops. Danielle invited me to join the group today even though she knew I would be doing my own thing and not really doing the workshop curriculum.

We were over near Gapstow Bridge– and there were thousands and thousands of people from all over NYC, the US, and the world all looking for the mandarin duck which has been sighted here. That duck wanted nothing to do with anyone lol!

The fall foliage was perfect, and it was cold but that’s ok.

i decided the perfect scene was painting some of the workshop participants. This was an extremely challenging painting for many reasons, one of which being my view was constantly blocked. And also working with the scale of everything.

Lots of passersby wanted to take “clever” photos of them taking a picture of me painting painters. Everyone was really, really awesome.

If you are ever feeling a bit down artistically, I highly recommend going to the most populated place in Central Park and painting. it’s really amazing energy, there is nothing like it. People are amazing.

This is an 11×14 and took somewhere between 4 1/2 to 5 hours.