A Field Away - #83113 by Candy Barr

Billy Brauer's Country House by Studio

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply SOLD

block in with opposite colors -
His studio has the red cupola and roof.

Doing a demo with my Wednesday plein air class of artist friend Billy Brauer's rental house.

This is the sign that accompanies the purple box hanging in tree to catch Ash boring beetles.

Saturday July 23 will be the

Plein Air Festival at the Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, Vermont

The Emile A. Gruppe Gallery
22 Barber Farm Rd. Jericho, VT

July 23, 2011 8:00am—5:30pm

Reception and Show 4:30pm—5:30pm

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!

Connecting Landscapes - #51711

48 x 96 inches - Oil/Mixed Media on canvas

Detail Bottom Middle
Detail Bottom Left


Detail Bottom Right Detail Top Right

Detail Top Left
There are 5 paint by number paintings embedded into this larger painting on canvas along with a reversed needlepoint. It seemed like a good idea at the time! It was exhibited at the Stratton Arts Festival over 10 years ago when they had an annual juried state wide contemporary art show.

It still looks great, and would be fantastic in a conference room or lobby wall!

Meadow Crest Farm Vermont

12 x 14 inches Approx Oil on wood



detail

Bear at the Bobbin Mill Falls

24 x 24 inches Oil on canvas



Detail



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.

Two Boats Ashore

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

This was earlier version with the float.
I'm finally learning to edit items from scenes.

Basin Harbor Adirondack Chair

5 x 5 x 8 inches Oil on wood - front and back
Available at auction Aug 10-20, 2010


front with back

Here's 8" iconic Basin Harbor Adirondack Chair painted up for the Vermont Arts Council art auction at the Basin Harbor Club in Basin Harbor Vermont. Their annual “Reflections on Basin Harbor” show runs for 10 days before Labor Day each year, August 10 - 20 this year. They invited previous artists of the show to participate...and what better way than suggest the view when lounging?

Sailing Sloop

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

The view on Malletts Bay in late afternoon. 

Open Studio this weekend went well. Always nice to get the studio cleaned up.

Will post tomorrow some shots of the walls.

Fly Fishermen

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

$725. + S/H

Michael's grandson was up all week learning to fish. They took a canoe out to Blueberry Lake and the Waterbury Reservoir and I painted near the launch. What nice halcyon days!

Pine Tree

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

$99. +S/H



Demo for my plein air class on Wednesday. Trying to capture some intimacy with the woods here in Vermont!

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.

Jersey Grazing

5 x 7 inches oil on canvas board

$99. + S/H

Apple Orchard on Savage Island, Lake Champlain

11 x 14 inches Pastel on paper

Apple Tree on Savage Island, Lake Champlain

11 x 14 inches Pastel on paper SOLD

From where I spotted tree in orchard, with intermittent sunlight.

Green Mts Over Pond

6 x 12 inches Oil on canvas board

$99 + S/H

Something got soupy about the mass of trees here. It may in part be the photo itself. It was a great vista of the Green Mountains as seen across a pond and beautifully cleared land.

Stowe Church

7 x 21 inches Oil on wood SOLD

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.

Mt Ellen

10 x 10 inches Oil on canvas