Costa Rica Dream #5 - 31715 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 Oil on canvas board

Painted on location 

Fire Station #1 Casa Grande - #22814 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Last weekend there was an all day Casa Grande Plein Air Event.
Over 50 artists participated with 3 winners.  The Captain at the fire station wanted my
painting if it didn't go for the purchase awards.. so there it proudly hangs!
Love chatting with the firemen in between their outings all day. They are such pillars of our communities.
So many coming and goings, and cases of mental illness emergencies rather than
fires if you know much about what too many of their calls are for.
Services provided:

• Fire
• Emergency Medical Services
• Hazardous Materials Response
• Search and Rescue
• Extrication

Twenty five years ago false alarms were half the number of fires, today false alarms significantly exceed the number of fires.

According to Nightline it costs $3,500 every time a fire truck pulls out of a fire station in Washington, DC (25 calls in a 24 hour shift is not uncommon so this adds up quickly).  Moreover, most of the time the call is not for a fire but for a minor medical problem. In many cities, both fire trucks and ambulances respond to the same calls. The paramedics do a great job but it is hard to believe that this is an efficient way to deliver medical care and transportation. A few locales have experimented with more rational systems. For example:

- See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html#sthash.oivTNtTA.dpuf

Civic Center & Carriage #21113 by Candy Barr

 11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas

Detail

This painting was initially done in the Glendale 

Chocolate Plein Air Event 2010.
 I tuned it up a bit, and brought it back hoping to find a good home for it!

$175

Arizona Condo Commission

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas

Doing a condo commission!~SOLD

Landscape/Cityscape Purchase Award

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Sold

Process

The house in front of Elephant Tree

The city of Glendale AZ had a plein air competition on Saturday and I did two paintings before we turned them in at 3pm. My larger painting with the horse won Landscape/Cityscape Purchase Award. I did it a few blocks from downtown in the historic residential section. The hanging boughs on the top left are from a historic large Eucalyptus tree with a plaque labeling it the Elephant Tree. Years ago when the circus came to town, 2 elephants evidently got LOOSE and were finally found under this tree! It's quite famous as a landmark now.


Award categories are Purchase Awards and will be accessioned into the City of Glendale’s permanent collection upon completion of event:
 Best of Show Purchase Award (1) $1000.00 Best of Show award will be presented.
 Glendale Centennial Celebration Purchase Awards. Two (2)$500.00 awards will be presented
 Glendale Chocolate Affair Purchase Award. One (1) $500.00 award will be presented.
 Landscape/Cityscape Purchase Award. One (1) $500.00 award will be presented.
 Modern Glendale Purchase Award. One (1) $500.00 award will be presented.
 Honorable Mention Purchase Awards. Two (2) $250.00 awards will be presented.

Desert Palms

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch

$125 + S/H

Same location as yesterday near Thousand Palms. These were the first Washington Palms I ever saw (I think they were called?)in California that were so different after visiting my parents in Florida many years, and seeing the scrawny pruned palms, these unpruned seemed so majestic! They resembled Lion manes to me. Very regal and stately in a group.

18th Green

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Detail with duck diving

This was done a while back, in California at a Rancho Mirage golf course standing by a blooming lemon tree that filled the air with such ambrosia, it was divine. Painting water, ducks diving, next to the 18th green, seeing the reflection of palm trees and the mountains in the water. It was pretty sublime.