Government Shutdown - #10113 by Candy Barr

 9 x 12 inches Oil on canvas board

Pretty days this week - they say peek foliage this weekend.  

More interesting to be out painting than listening to news. 

Red Barn - #91513 by Candy Barr

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Three Silos - #91313 by Candy Barr

 12 x 12 Inches Oil on canvas

Added some more needed clouds from August posting originally

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.

A Field Away - #83113 by Candy Barr

Echinachea - #83013 by Candy Barr

Bird Bath - #82913 by Candy Barr

14 x 14 x 2 inches Oil on cradled Birch Ply

This is revised version from last week. 

The birdbath was not in shadow and a few other items were reworked.

Echinachea with Ferns - #82813 by Candy Barr

12 x 12 inches Oil on Birch Ply

Bragg Barn - #82713 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas

this is detail from a 16 x 20 version with same barn in picture

Three Silos - #82613 by Candy Barr

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

Not thinking this is completed yet. 

 Want to do more to sky and foliage off road

Bird Bath - #82513 by Candy Barr

14 x 14 x 2 inches Oil on cradled birch panel

This isn't complete.  The bird bath jumps out, not sitting

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

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. 

Bragg Barn - #8413 by Candy Barr

 16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

 detail

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

Mad River Vineyard Before Harvest - #92811

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

The grapes will be harvested October 8 Joe Klimek told us.  Marquette grape. Last year was the first harvest and they made 200 bottles of a ROSE.  The grapes are delicious! We can't wait until this year's crop is drinkable!

Part of an article in The Valley Reporter last year in August stated:
Wine production in Vermont has been on the rise over the last five years. The new availability of hybridized varieties of grapes that can thrive in harsher climates has enabled a boom in wine production in the Green Mountains.

"People don't realize it, but every state in the union, bar none, grows grapes," said Godolik. "Although it may sound like an industry that has no place in Vermont, it really has established itself quite successfully, in all corners of the state."

Godolik and Klimek began the Mad River Vineyard five years ago, one year after Klimek moved to the East Warren Road property. They are both long-term admirers of wine and have spent time touring vineyards everywhere from Italy to France to Sonoma, California.

Currently, they are cultivating three varieties of hybridized grapes. It all began with 500 vines of Marquette, a hybrid variety derived from pinot noir.

Godolik and Klimek will harvest their first commercial crop this fall. Their grapes will then be sold in bulk to a Vermont winery. The first bottles of wine made from Mad River Vineyard grapes will likely be available next summer.

"We've had a lot of fun. It's a lot of work, but it's interesting," said Godolik. "Having gone to all those other vineyards and getting a sense of what people do there, then coming here and doing it ourselves - it's very fulfilling."

Since the beginning of the Mad River Vineyard, Godolik and Klimek have been involved with the Vermont Grape and Wine Council, a statewide organization of vineyards and wineries. The council supports the industry by holding educational events, linking vineyards and wineries statewide and working with state agencies.

The council recently lobbied for legislation to support local grape producers. "We want to make sure the wine that is produced in the state is from Vermont-produced grapes," said Klimek. "Rules have been put in place so that in order to have a bottle of wine that says 'Made in Vermont' it has to be 75 percent from Vermont-grown grapes."
 

Bragg Hill Barn - #91411

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

Warren Covered Bridge and Crib Dam - #81411

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas framed . Available from Parade Gallery, Warren Vermont



Here was my setting for the Great Plein Air Paint Out on Saturday. It's in process.
I painted it already framed for the 3:30- 5:30 Exhibit.

A fun day talking to folks who dropped by to talk about the process.

Mad River Vineyard Garden - #81311

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas



And here is link from Boston Channel 5 Chronicle with a series on "Waterfalls" with me interviewed and painting with some of my students in our weekly plein air class: click here There were 4 segments and this is the final one!