Pigeon Man - #3414 by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on panel

This was one of two paintings I did for the Chocolate Festival

Plein Air Event in Glendale, AZ this February. 

While I was painting it, a good artist 

friend of mine spotted me painting! She was visiting AZ from VERMONT!  

Janet Fredericks...and her husband, Jungian psychologist and magician,

Tom Verner with his Dad. (check out Magicians Without Borders)
Quite the trio. 

It was so unbelievable in a crowd of thousands to

randomly connect with a neighbor and good friend~!

Erich Model #11213 by Candy Barr

 14 x 18 inches Oil on canvas board

Detail

Look Away - Youth Portrait - #92611

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas

cover of The Spirit of Art by Robert Henri

This has always been a favorite for the POW effect of the stunning stare and warm colors.  I'd like to redo mine with this color palette!

Blake - #8611

14 x 16 inches Oil on canvas SOLD



This was earlier stage, before the final above. I tried to soften the braces, enhance the eyes, and get the color better. Blake sat for this entirely which made it great to do, he took breaks every 20 minutes..

Every August 6 I like to do a painting in Memorial for Hiroshima, and entitle them all "That Sheep May Safely Graze"...

Young Man Head Study- #6611

5 x 6.5 x 3/4 inches Oil on wood block

Young Male Nude - #6411

5 x 6.5 x 3/4 inches Oil on wood block

Young Man's Profile Study - #6311

5 x 6 x 3/4 inches Oil on wood block

AJ Head - #3511

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

$99. + S/H

This is one of 9 quick studies of AJ. From 2 minute poses to 20 minute poses. I find the 2 minute ones can look insane but the freedom of line is an important discovery in itself. I like to see brush work, and without time to ponder it, terrific surprises can happen!

AJ Seated - #3411

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

$99 + S/H

Here's the challenge of viewing correct colors over screens...This one looks so different!

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

2 Minute Portrait - #3311

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

These 2 minute poses and doing a "portrait" in oils keeps my eye sharp, and they are so much fun to do!

Take a look a Emer Bischoff's work...
I always loved the California Bay Figurative artists

from the book:
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.

Portrait Profile - #22611

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

$99. + S/H

An assortment of the studies all 6 x 6 inches,
I'll post these individually this week.

Joshua - #21811

Detail

18 x 24 inches Charcoal on gessoed birch plywood

Jesse Portrait

14 x 24 inches Charcoal on 4 ply Bristol board
$225. SOLD

Detail

2 minute warmups

Mike Portrait - #2411F

18 x 24 inches Charcoal on tinted Pastel Paper

Male Whisperer

6 x 6 inches Oil on Pine board

Tony ~ Portrait Study II

5 x 7 inches oil on birch veneer

$99. + S/H

Tony ~ Face portrait

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Wednesday night I painted 3 portraits of Tony
each one 40 minutes on a 5 x 7 format

Tony ~ Portrait Study

5 x 7 inches Oil on birch veneer

Here's version #2 from
series of three of Tony in 20 minute studies
This one using thicker application of paint.
I guess I feel more confident with the colors
the second time in.
I also actually enjoy the surface of
birch veneer better too...smoother
and less resistance with brushwork.

$225. in gold frame + S/H

Cowboy with Hat

16" x 20" Oil on canvas

Here's the same model Les a few years ago.
A regular at the Scottsdale Art School.
He always wears the red shirt and vest,
sometimes with the hat, sometimes not!



Cowhand 2007 24" x 24"
This older one was Sold

Frank - Portrait

11" x 14" Oil on canvas