Superstition Mountains - #3614 by Candy Barr

Detail

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

It was raining and I was standing under a ramada  when I did this originally.

It has seemed gloomy in my studio, so I gave the sky and some other areas a face lift.

This can be purchased from my gallery in downtown Scottsdale

CASA de ARTiSTAS

Superstition Mts by Candy Barr - # 1914

 18 x 24 x 2 inches Oil

Since the National Parks have lost their budgets in many of the AZ parks, we have to find new locations to set up and paint some of the classical scenes.  Some of the locals came by to see what we were doing.  Sadly an airplane crashed in the middle of this particular mountain one told me, and when the light is right, you can see an 'angel of death'  where the plane hit. A father with his 2 children and engineer pilot.  

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.

Superstition Trail Study - #21711

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Didn't really have much time for this second one... but a nice vista looking south.

Riding in Desert - #21611

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

$175. + S/H

Painting out at Superstition Mountain today on a trail that we hiked a bit in. A bunch of hikers and these two riders passed us. I couldn't help throwing a horse into my view, but it looks like this one would have posed for us!

Cisco ~ Horse portrait

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board ~ Final

Better contrast, brightened up, and
simplified composition

in process ~
at the rail which gets eliminated and the bit of building

Well they are a moving target, but it was surely fun
to paint studies of horses.


The riders come locally on Sunday mornings,
tie up their horse and have coffee together, having
riden together earlier.

The owners of these horses came out
and rode off before I could get the pinto in.

Superstition Mts

11 x 13 inches oil on canvas on birch

Painting this weekend in two day plein air workshop
of Amery Bohling who had Jeremy Lipking as her guest
(his figurative work is incredible).
Both of them are fabulous with the desert light.
My painting has some color she corrected for me,
so many thanks Amery!

Amery keeps her paints to a minimum taking only 6 colors:
ultramarine blue, Alizarin crimson, cadmium light,
cadmium yellow lt, Indian yellow, and titanium white
(and sometimes thalo green)


Premixing colors after the start of the sketch



The Superstition Mountains has the Lost Dutchman's Park
and lots of hiking trails.