Echinachea - #83013 by Candy Barr

Bragg Hill Barn Study - #9511

6 x 6 inches Oil on

99. + S/H

Well the Mad River did a number in the valley due to the rains of Irene. Visit VPR.net and link to Google Map VT roads closed and bridges if you really want to see immediate impact.

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!

Horses Grazing

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas



Buddha version 4 SOLD

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.

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 Barn on Country Road in Autumn

9 x 12 inches Pastel on sanded paper SOLD

$325 + S/H






Process

The neutral colored sanded paper I rubbed entirely with a soft orange pastel to cover the entire page.

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.

Round Barn panorama

7 x 24 inches Oil on birch SOLD

Heres an older version I did of the Round Barn Inn from the field above it where overflow guests park.