Reflecting Rock - #9313

5 x 7 Inches Oil on canvas board

Here's completed image of posting from the Plein Air Paint Out posted 8/19 earlier 

but seen only on the easel in process.

Rock Jump - #81913 by Candy Barr

 6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

I saw a young boy do a back flip off this and it made me cringe 

thinking of the danger of it all.  A fun day to be swimming though.

Larry Weinstein admiring the young artist's work at the Great Plein Air paint out

Rock Reflection - #81813 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Started over standing nude painting... The Festival photographer commented as she passed by that she couldn't photograph this as it wouldn't be published...Hello??

 

My paintings lined up that I did in last 3 days.

Reflecting - #81513 by Candy Barr

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply SOLD

 My friend Mehdi Fallahian from Palm Springs on his second painting 

after painting the covered bridge first (see painting below)

9 x 12 Oil

Not too many covered bridges in Palm Springs....

Rock Up the Mad River - #81513 by Candy Barr

 

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

 

Detail

PR from the Vermont Festival of the Arts announces

The Great Plein AIr Paint Out

Great Vermont Plein Air Paint Out and Art Hop This Weekend!
  MAIN STREET, WAITSFIELD, VERMONT

Event starts August 16 at 9:00 AM

On Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17 more than 45 artists will descend on Historic Waitsfield Village to paint, draw or sketch the beautiful local scenery. Easels will be set up in gardens, fields, and along the river and street. Artists will take inspiration from our historic covered bridge, iconic church steeple, the meandering Mad River, quaint store fronts, lush gardens, majestic mountains, rustic barns, clapboard houses & rolling fields all contained within a stroll of the Paint-Out headquarters on Bridge St.

New this year is the Paint-Out Art Hop on Friday, August 16th from 5-8 pm. Paintings completed during the day will be on sale, stores will have discounts and second sales, and restaurants will feature Paint-Out specials. 

Come down and celebrate the Paint-Out

 with special offers and demos at these participating merchants:

- All Things Bright and Beautiful – open & Gaelic will be painting
- Artisans’ Gallery – Candy Barr Original Oils plus many others
- Bridge Street Emporium – 15% off store-wide
- Mad River Glass Gallery – a tent sale
- Mad River Quilting - 10% off finished quilts
- Madsonian Museum – open and Maki Roll demo at 6 pm
- Mint – open for dinner
- Not Just Blackboards – Karla Bove in her studio with sample sale
- Peasant – will have a painter at their doorway
- Sweet Spot – open for ice cream
- The Green Close – open with a porch sale
- Waitsfield Pottery – demo & cheese platter for nibbling
- Walker Contemporary – open with treats from Sweet Pea
- Waitsfield Wine Shoppe - open for business!

Paintings created during the Paint-Out will be on sale both during the Art Hop and at

 the Paint-Out Sidewalk Art Show and Sale on 

Saturday, August 17 from 3-6 pm. 

This wonderful event feels like a mini-festival in the Festival and shouldn’t be missed. 

Come down for a while and watch a blank canvas become a painting right before your eyes!

That Sheep May Safely Graze 3- #8713 by Candy Barr

 12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

The Waitsfield covered bridge standing along the Mad River in Vermont

 detail

 the Start ( standing in shaded part )

Mehdi Fallahian, plein air painter from Palm Springs

Every August 6th I try to paint a memorial on the anniversary of the bomb dropping on

Hiroshima, and title it the same, "That Sheep May Safely Graze"

Medhi happened to call me to see if I wanted to join him as he was visiting his doctor son and doctor daughter in law in Waterbury Center!  No way...last time I saw him we painted together in Palm Springs probably 8 years ago!  He spotted some work of mine in Artisans Gallery in town here.  We also painted with Terry Masters in Palm Springs, who now runs the Desert Painter Gallery there as well as teaches Plein Air workshops. 

Mad River at American Flatbreads - #71713 by Candy Barr

  5 x 7 Inches Oil on canvas board

$195 + S/H

Along the Mad River near where RT 100 in Waitsfield and Lareau Farm Inn & American Flatbreads located.  We had our plein class here today  92 around 1 0'clock...down to 84 and lightening by 6pm.  Big showers by 8pm....Lucky to have sunny afternoon.

Waitsfield Covered Bridge- demo start #71412 by Candy Barr

8 X 10 Oil on canvas- demo start

 My plein air class set up along the Mad River below the Covered Bridge that was damaged during Hurricane Irene Flood.  There is a missing building to the left.

Having our critique

Double Falls - #8411

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board



Vermont swimming holes in the summer...


My group painting with me today, on these incredible rocks.

Moss Glen Falls, Granville VT- #71511

Each 11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas board

These are two separate paintings.

$325. free ship in US (painting on left)

A producer at Chronicle WCVB TV, the half hour New England magazine show that airs on the ABC television affiliate in Boston contacted me to film my class here this week!

He's working on a show, using waterfalls as the connecting theme,
including a number of different elements along the way.( Let's hear it for plein air daily painters!)
I went the day before filming to have one nearly completed,
and a start for another, similar to show the progression.

This was stage before they filmed, with the water yet to be painted in. It's always easier to add the lightest color last and have some of the darks a bit drier so the color lays down.

A gorgeous day in Granville Vermont at the Moss Glen Falls along Rt 100. They are hoping to have it ready to show by September. I'll pass on the date when they let me know!

This local was hot from haying, and came here to cool off the day before the filming!

Horses Grazing

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas



Buddha version 4 SOLD

Jersey Grazing

5 x 7 inches oil on canvas board

$99. + S/H

Wadsworth Pond

8 x 10 inches Oil on hardboard

Officially this is Wadsworth Pond, but because it's at Prickly Mountain, it's usually called Prickly Pond. I planted the willow tree 20 years ago, thinking it would have long willows to swing on, like I had growing up. Well, turns out there are many varieties of willow trees, and this one is just a stunted kind. Hmmm, I guess it has a distinctive shape nevertheless, just not as functional as I was hoping for.

Sunflowers

16 x 16 inches Oil on canvas SOLD

From my past~
some paintings never put up on my blog~
end of summer sunflowers

Listening to Peepers

9 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

Returned to spring in Vermont after a month
on the road between Arizona, LA, Tulsa, Columbus
and Washington DC. No painting during that time,
and alot to unpack and get settled in before new
ones start up again~

Looking forward to what is to come!

Bragg Hill Clouds

8" x 15" Oil on masonite

Taking my shift at the Red Barn Art Show
held annually at American Flatbread's barn.

Nice view of Bragg Hill which overlooks Mt Ellen
part of Sugarbush Ski area.

Mary's Garden

11" x 14" Oil on canvas

Nearly done

On location, facing east. Raised bed garden
with vineyard behind the corn plants.

(this was SOLD at a silent auction this summer
to raise money for the Localvore food project)

Moffroids Pond

6" x 6" Oil on masonite


Another day of the Vermont Arts Festival
with the Art in the Garden.

Pierre and Mary Moffroid's Garden ~Final

9" x 12" Oil on canvas

Completed version
The rain made me halt where I was in
the post yesterday. I thought it needed more
sharp edges and pronounced contrast
between the shadows and highlights.