Three Silos - #91313 by Candy Barr

 12 x 12 Inches Oil on canvas

Added some more needed clouds from August posting originally

Bragg Hill Barn - #91411

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

Meadow Crest Farm Vermont

12 x 14 inches Approx Oil on wood



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Autumn Farm in Vermont

20 x 20 Inches Oil on canvas

~Needs more when dry~

Have you ever painted on vinyl? Well this particulary canvas I prepared was so slick
experimenting with different gesso. I had several coats of the oil based lead gesso, and I it was shiny it was so smooth. Consequently the paint was sliding all over, and impossible to build up surface, so I'll let it dry and make some adjustments next week.

A cold morning turned into a great day painting with six other plein airers!

Eric Tobin with his finished piece and subject in the background and Peter Miller nearly done.






Driving over Smuggler's Pass at 7Am it was 34 degrees and you can see the snow! Unusual to have the Pass open after the snow flies, but it's early this year. The light hitting the top of the mountain is called a reverse sunrise because you're facing west, and the sun coming over the mountains behind me.

At the start of the morning, John Caggiano, TM Nicholas, Peter Miller & Eric Tobin

(Ken Knowles and Susan setting up)

TM Nicholas and John Caggiano plein air along the river

Ken Knowles was around the bend

Person Eric Tobin

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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.

Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont

6" x 6" Oil on canvas mounted on RDF board SOLD

With a little license for an early snow
in loving memory of Werner Von Trapp
1915 - 2007
He was a dairy farmer in the Mad River Valley
until he retired in 1979

Available at Vermont Fine Art Gallery

Knoll Farm

16" x 16" Oil on cradled birch plywood ~ SOLD

(top reposted for final)

Knoll Farm is a working family farm of hardwood forests and hillside meadows overlooking the Green Mountains in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. Their land and buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places, and conserved by the Vermont Land Trust. They are the base for Center for Whole Communities, a learning and retreat center for activists that was founded by the owners of the farm, Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow.
(Helen was most gracious allowing me to paint with my friend unannounced,
to which I am most grateful)

Temple Farm in Value Study

18" x 18" Oil

$725 + S/H

Temple Farm, Putney, Vermont

12 " x 12" Oil SOLD

My digital camera pooped out, and I sent it to be cleaned,
overhauled, whatever and should be back in 2 weeks.
Meanwhile I'll post paintings from my archives not posted
and catch up with new paintings when I can photograph again.

As Roseanna Danna said "it's always something!"

New Mowed Hay

10" x 10" Oil

Having lived on a farm with 80 ewe once
and mowed hay, I still love the contour lines of it.

This is from 2004, and I'd probably not paint it
the same way now. We've got alot of family and friends
visiting this month and I'll retrieve some oldies to keep up
with posting.

$225 +S/H

Bragg Hill Barn

4" x 6" Oil

In the collection of Governor Jim Douglas, Vermont

Hay Pile

Hay Pile - 6" x 6" oil on panel

early morning paddock $50.

Tomorrow I'll be painting on a 4 day plein air retreat to Sedona, the Grand Canyon & Flagstaff, AZ with another artist friend, Diane.

It's been in the 90's in Scottsdale, and should be cooler in the mountains.