Off the Trail #32313 by Candy Barr

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas SOLD 

I love to paint horses, so let me know if you have a special one you'd like me to capture

Weekends in Arizona are especially good times for group rides...

Lone Saguaro #32213 by Candy Barr

12 x 12 Inches Oil an canvas  SOLD

Saguaro at Gateway #32113 by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas 

Demo for my class

Here is our small group I gave plein air class to this week at McDowell Sonoran Preserve at Gateway. Really nice paintings and efforts all around! (I guess visors are the way to go when it's hot here!)

Grand Canyon Sunset #31513 by Candy Barr

2 x 4 feet, Oil on deep canvas SOLD

 Detail

 In Process

in Process

Slide Rock Sedona View #31313 by Candy Barr

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas

some striking vistas from the highway entering Sedona... The red rocks coloring are stunning on a sunny day

Cliff in Grand Canyon #31213 by Candy Barr

11 x 14 inches oil on canvas

This is a repost to put some Grand Canyon paintings together. I'm heading to paint in Sedona tomorrow at Slide Rock.  Have never been, joining up with the Arizona Plein Air Painters.

Superstition Mts Rain #3913 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Painting in the drizzling rain with temperatures in mid 40's... Arizona Plein Air Painters event but only 4 of us showed up at Lost Dutchman's Park in Apache Junction.  A nice part of Arizona

and here was framed art in the restaurant we went in after painting!  

We picked a good spot to paint I guess! Looks like same saguaro some years ago. 

Chuck Prudhomme (best in show last year at the Casa Grande Paint Out)  with his rig....and Toni Perrin modeling her painting gloves for cold weather and a peak into her customized Art Studio in back of her Jeep.  Magnetized containers help to keep everything in place... so cool! Not in photos another good painter Stevie Denny! she had to leave pronto.

Morning Grand Canyon #3613 by Candy Barr

24 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas  SOLD

This was done on location, beginning at sunrise with the early morning light and shadows still coming into canyon.   Previously posted, but I thought it related to yesterday's post of the desert wash with the deep morning shadows. 
Painting on site at the Grand Canyon is extraodinary.. so much to see and get lost in...magnificence the scale....

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas


We painted today at the Tonto National Forest near the Saguaro Lake at Bulldog Mountain. Looking north up the wash with morning shadows, that soon become lit as the sun rises.

A few couples walked past us, as well as two RV groups.  It's crowded in the desert!

early morning deep shadows

Working on an orange underpainting to compensate for all the desert greens

the morning shadows force you to capture them in the foreground first before the sun dissolves them

By mid morning note no shadow down in the wash anymore

detail

Russian Girl Painting #3513 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Before dining at the extraordinary designer Joyce Crawford's home with Ann Leak, I painted a lovely picture hanging in her home that she acquired from her friend Margaret.

Standing lamp by painting, exposure only worked for one or the other...

We liked the abstract qualities of the paint box juxtaposed with the painting...