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.

Rock Up the Mad River - #81513 by Candy Barr

 

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

 

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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!

Roxbury Gap View of Mad River Valley - #101411

18 x 18 inches Oil on canvas

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This Sat I'll be set up at the RISD Alumni + Student Art Sale on Benefit St

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I'll be Table 64 between College and George St

Let's hope for a nice day!

Round Barn Inn Shadows - #101111

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Von Trapps Gardens - #92211

6 x 12 inches Oil on Birch wood

Willow at Wadsworth Pond - #82811

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply




Here's pond across the street from where I live with Prickly Mountain in backdrop. I planted this willow tree in 1979 thinking it would have long tassels to swing on like the willow I grew up with. Not. Guess I didn't read the label carefully at the nursery about what KIND of willow this was going to be. Hmmm. Lots of different willows it turns out. Kind of a major disappointment, but it has a good presence anyway.



My plein air class happily painting away. We're in the storm path today with heavy rain and wind all day.

American Flatbreads Courtyard - #8911

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

American Flatbreads at Lareau's Farm now has the Big Red Barn Art Show through Labor Day.
I have 4 paintings in the show, including the large Buddha meditating in early Spring, and 3 local rural scenes. 2 farms and the Warren Dam and covered bridge.

Today I'm painting in Mystic CT.

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?

Cloud Hole - #73011

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

$49 + S

Here is one of my demos for my plein air class on Wednesdays. Thalo blue, Alizarin Crimson and Raw Sienna with Titanium White. It was a spectacular day for viewing clouds as seen below. We painted on the Rolston Rd by the fields of Belted Gallaway cows, that has 365 view of the sky!
So facing west and the Green Mts had end of day light ...so dramatic.



There was a row of us lined up, some using our tailgate as studio.



I started viewing this hole which changed VERY QUICKLY!



These two had a personality on their own.






I could paint clouds all day.

Meadow Crest Farm Vermont

12 x 14 inches Approx Oil on wood



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Leslie's Pond

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

Blocking in the painting over an old painting done on a beach in Malibu.




The trout were waiting to be fed and come when you walk on the dock!

Bear at the Bobbin Mill Falls

24 x 24 inches Oil on canvas



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This was done on location with the small exception of siting the bears. But we certainly do have a bear habitat here in the Mad River Valley. In fact there have been bear citings in my yard as I am nestled next to woods on a mountain. I've stopped feeding the birds because it seems indistinguishable to bears! My neighbor up the hill had one sitting chomping away at her feeder, and it decimated the flower garden upon her departure.

Mad River Valley Plein Air Paint Out

Bridge St Barn



10 x 10 Inches Oil on canvas

Saturday was an all day Plein Air Paint Out
on Bridge Street Waitsfield, Vermont
in the Mad River Valley

9 participants for our 2nd one.
We tried it a few years ago, but I was the only participant,
so can you call that the first one?? Well they were both advertised
so I guess you call it our second one.

Three Trees in Autumn study

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas

Von Trapp Cow Study ~ go to 3.18.10

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

(go to 3.19.10 for continued version)

This is a fifteen minute study I decided to do while I was driving past. I thought I should come back some day this time in the late afternoon to paint these wonderful cows, and something made me stop right then. I had an extra 20 minutes I figured to paint something about a cow. But I must tell you, they are moving right along the slope eating their way from one end to the other. So the direction it started was not what the pose remained! So to do a longer pose wouldn't actually be so easy. Then I realized a bunch were lying down. I'll have to go for one of those next time. It's fun to talk to them while you're painting. They are good listeners and frequently look up.

Von Trapp Sunlit Lane

9" x 12" Oil on canvas board

The Nursery driveway is on the right
with the sunlight coming through. The
Common Road in Waitsfield, Vermont
has such a lovely tree canopy on a dirt road.
Quintessential Mad River Vermont

$525 Framed
from Vermont Fine Art Gallery

Down Stream - Mad River

6" x 11" Oil on birch plywood