Paradise Found ~ Costa Rica 52115 by Candy Barr

36 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas
From Study done plein air

Costa Rica Dream #5 - 31715 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 Oil on canvas board

Painted on location 

Costa Rica Dream #4 - 22115 by Candy Barr

 9 x 12 Oil on board

Fountain At Sunset #31114 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on deep canvas

Painted in the courtyard at Pinnacle Peak

I anticipated the sunset with the tower and back lit fountain.

Blue Hydrangeas - #10613 by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Echinachea - #83013 by Candy Barr

Echinachea with Ferns - #82813 by Candy Barr

12 x 12 inches Oil on Birch Ply

Lantana - #81213 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 inches Oil on cradled Birch

Painting in the garden last week put me in the mood to paint 

more flowers.  It's interesting to become lost in the patterns and contrasts 

and vivid colors, without any horizon line for a change.  No vase or table 

for orientation. 

My Plein Air workshop takes place Tuesday & Wednesday this week.

We're preparing for the Great Plein AIr Paint Out

 happening on Bridge St, Waitsfield, Vermont
 Two day event thru the VT Arts Festival 



And here's the cover photo this week for our Valley Reporter:

Leslie Reynolds on my right from my Wednesday Plein Air Class!
My demo was on the ground by easel... The Bragg Farm
now purchased by the VT LAND TRUST. 
The painting on my easel I posted that night August 4.

Echinacea - #8813 by Candy Barr

12 x 12 inches Oil on wood panel

  on location

Vermont Festival of the Arts had a tour today and I was one of the artists in the Garden Tour.

Broadleaf Landscape Architecture partner Kristen Seibert
gave the tour of the garden which she designed.

Published again 8/30/13

Cottage Garden #3313 by Candy Barr

Painting in Paris in Springtime In Glendale, AZ

 20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas in process 
~ need to figure out sky vs roof and tree and darken the porch and add the flowers on arbor...  Note how different relationship of roof and sky are in am to pm

Getting the start with sun behind me, then by end of day sun coming towards me, which was much better for painting having the arbor backlit.

this was from earlier in week capturing Brandon Hamilton before he interviewed

 Carol Migray the fantastic owner of both Cottage Garden I and II.

Sailing By - #101711

9 x 12 Inches Oil on panel

 Here was my 3 x 6' space for the RISD Alumni + Student Art Sale
a bit windy but nice weather otherwise and about 2,000+ traffic between 10-4.
I made some new friends and enjoyed the reunion with old friends. 

American Flatbreads Courtyard - #8911

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

American Flatbreads at Lareau's Farm now has the Big Red Barn Art Show through Labor Day.
I have 4 paintings in the show, including the large Buddha meditating in early Spring, and 3 local rural scenes. 2 farms and the Warren Dam and covered bridge.

Today I'm painting in Mystic CT.

Gerber Daisies-#62211

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

I'm going to have to spend more time with still lifes...worth investigation.

Daffodils - #5711

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply SOLD

~Happy Mothers Day~

After traveling by car from AZ back to VT over last 4 weeks, ready to post again.

Springtime was nice on the travels, but not much in bloom upon return to Vermont other than daffodils.

Trees will be much later. It was a wet and cold April.

Daisies

4 x 5 x 1 inches
Oil on wood

Just reminded of summer bliss after waking up to 6" of snow this morning~!

Pink Roses in Round Vase

19 x 24 inches Oil on birch Framed in solid black wood

$525. + S/H





Still life

Sail Away

8 x 10 inches Oil on gessoed board

Marigolds & Goldenglow

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

$225. + S/H

This is my favorite glass vase,
and the marigolds with the yellow
goldenglow are so cheery.
I've been painting this combination
over the last week, and I never
tire of their excitement!

Nasturiums

6" x 6" Oil on masonite SOLD

$99. + S/H

Marigolds

6" x 6" Oil on masonite

$99. +S/H

Not too many left in my garden having
had a frost a couple of nights ago.