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. 

Roxbury Gap View of Mad River Valley - #101411

18 x 18 inches Oil on canvas

detail

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!

Two Bushes - #92711

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

autumn light

start off..

Autumn Sun in Haze - #92411

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

SOLD

 Sun burning through overcast twilight of autumn day

Vermont Woods - #92311

6 x 6 inches Oil  on Birch Ply

$99 + S/H

Wells River Vermont in amazing autumn color

Chowing down at my friend Joanne's backyard while we were painting

Vermont Meadow - #72811

16 x 20 inches Pastel on Gatorboard

$525 Framed with glass + S/H

Vermont Autumn Maple - #72711

12 x 12 inches Pastel on canvas

I did this on a farm in Barre a few years ago, but added some color to this this week for the Vermont Pastel Society show at the Bridges Resort, in Warren during August Vermont Festival of the Arts.

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!

Three Trees in Autumn study

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas

Canadian Geese Flying South by Mt Mansfield

16 x 20 inches Oil on hardboard

Process in the field of view of Mt Mansfield on overcast day. The geese sounded wonderful as they flew over, and I'm waiting till it dries to put them in stronger. You can just barely see them as dots in a V on completed one. The house is an old Revolutionary period Stone House that you can just barely make out.

Vermont Covered Bridge Waterville

14 x 14 x 2 inches Oil on cradled birch Sold

Process of the painting with temperature 37 degrees at 9am, and warmed up to low 50's by the afternoon. The flat light was even all day basically so no need to hurry!

TM Nicholas plein air workshop.. we had 2 other painters. I guess the cold weather sorts out the serious ones! I'll post more photos of workshop later.

Birches Prickly Mountain

8 x 8 inches Oil on hardboard



Process

It was cold this week, and we had 4 inches of snow on Monday. And there is still snow in some patches.

On September 3, 1882 Van Gogh, while in Hague, wrote to Theo, in which he described his approach to painting.

[….]

In a way I am glad that I never learned painting. In all probability I would then have learned to ignore such effects as this. Now I can say to myself, this is just what I want. If it is impossible, it is impossible, but I'm going to try it even though I don't know how it ought to be done. I don't know myself how I paint it, I just sit down with a white board in front of the spot that appeals to me, I look at what is in front of my eyes, and I say to myself: that white board has got to turn into something - I come back, dissatisfied, I lay it to one side and when I have rested a little, I go and look at it with a kind of awe. Then I am still dissatisfied, because I have that splendid scenery too much in my mind to be satisfied with what I made of it. Yet I can see in my work an echo of what appealed to me, I can see that the scenery has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have taken it down in shorthand. My shorthand may contain words that cannot be deciphered, mistakes or gaps, and yet there is something left of what the wood or the beach or the figure has told me, and it isn't in tame or conventional language derived from a studied manner or from some system, but from nature itself. [….]

As translated by Mrs Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

Vermont Autumn Farm

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas (3/4" stretchers)

The location of my final plein air class today. Demo above showing back light coming through maple trees and on the willows. The sun was intermittent as it rained lightly for 10 minutes.
It was in low 50's today so we all had coats on and gloves.
I admit it ~ it was penetrating cold by 6 pm when we were done. You never know with Vermont fall foliage what the temperature will be. The colors are going to be great this year as they are turning slowly and sustaining their color.

And on to preparing wood panels

Trying out some different grounds and framing in my shop.