Sailing Sloop - 8 x 10" Oil by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on MDF board

On Malletts Bay, previously posted

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Blueberry Lake - #8811

12 x 12 inches Oil on MDF board

I'm pulling out older paintings and tweaking them for Open Studio coming up Sat Aug 20. 11-4pm

This one of Blueberry Lake near me was done before they removed Raymond Gow's house and it became a Town Park.

Anyone in Mystic Connecticut area Tuesday wishing to paint? I'll be there all day with easel if you want to join me?

Wild Acres Lake

8 x 10 inches Watercolor charcoal pencil on paper

$99. + S/H

Beautiful spot to sit and sketch with June,
while Michael fishing with his oldest childhood friend Kenny.

Canoeing

9 x 13 inches Oil on masonite (MDF)

Before when rock reflection too long

It was painted in summer, but this is fall view

I'm so used to working on location, and painting scenes as I see them without editing. I know for composition you are told to move a tree or rock etc, but with my extensive photography background, I never felt cropping was legitimate when making a good photograph, so I've just assumed doing the same thing with a painting is not as good either. Isn't that something? And I thought touching up on paintings done on location was a no-no. It's about time, I get OVER that syndrome ...don't you think? So all I have to do is have a general flavor of what I have in mind, then alter whatever needs adjusting in order to capture what I'm going after. So we'll see how the future paintings unfold. ( Painters are funny aren't we?)

Since I'm getting things cleared out and cleaned for winter skiers, I'm not going to be doing much painting for the next month. Then we'll be on the road, and guests everywhere, so not too much painting either. Perhaps I'll travel with pastels ?

Chatting It Up

14 x 14 inches Oil on deep cradled birch

A weekend trip and having such a good time chatting with girlfriends while I painted, that I didn't complete this painting. There was a metal boat behind the right chair that I didn't want to put in, and eliminating it always creates problems for me to fake something. There was a Tiki lamp that I'm probably eliminating as well, because you can see it would come in the line of vision of the women. I just like to post the incomplete ones as well, hoping the humiliation of an incomplete painting will prompt me to get it done sooner rather than later~!