Three Silos - #91313 by Candy Barr

 12 x 12 Inches Oil on canvas

Added some more needed clouds from August posting originally

Emilié Gruppé's Home - #9413 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas 

$575 plus s/h

 Revised from 7/20/13 posting

 detail

Sun came out occasionally after initially raining lightly.

Emilié is daughter of Emil Gruppé and there's a lovely gallery behind this house with many of her father's paintings on exhibit and for sale. 

Grazing Cows - #9213 by Candy Barr

 

 12 x 18 Inches Oil on Birch Ply

  

The cows went by and I started with them, and pushed everything back 

and to either side, and why not add a pond? The trees just are not elegant enough. 

I need to simplify more or step up the brush work of definition.  The colors are fun though.

Tough to like everything. Maybe it's not done?

A Field Away - #83113 by Candy Barr

Echinachea - #83013 by Candy Barr

Bragg Barn - #82713 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas

this is detail from a 16 x 20 version with same barn in picture

Rock Jump - #81913 by Candy Barr

 6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply

I saw a young boy do a back flip off this and it made me cringe 

thinking of the danger of it all.  A fun day to be swimming though.

Larry Weinstein admiring the young artist's work at the Great Plein Air paint out

Sweet Spot Stop - #81613 by Candy Barr

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

Two young girls enjoying their icecream cones. Their colorful outfits, sneakers and joy
with one week left before deadline of returning back to school...

$125 framed

Right after the girls finished and left

missing some of painting due to croping of frame. Needs a liner possibly?

The Paint Out a lot of fun

Reflecting - #81513 by Candy Barr

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply SOLD

 My friend Mehdi Fallahian from Palm Springs on his second painting 

after painting the covered bridge first (see painting below)

9 x 12 Oil

Not too many covered bridges in Palm Springs....

Rock Up the Mad River - #81513 by Candy Barr

 

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

 

Detail

PR from the Vermont Festival of the Arts announces

The Great Plein AIr Paint Out

Great Vermont Plein Air Paint Out and Art Hop This Weekend!
  MAIN STREET, WAITSFIELD, VERMONT

Event starts August 16 at 9:00 AM

On Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17 more than 45 artists will descend on Historic Waitsfield Village to paint, draw or sketch the beautiful local scenery. Easels will be set up in gardens, fields, and along the river and street. Artists will take inspiration from our historic covered bridge, iconic church steeple, the meandering Mad River, quaint store fronts, lush gardens, majestic mountains, rustic barns, clapboard houses & rolling fields all contained within a stroll of the Paint-Out headquarters on Bridge St.

New this year is the Paint-Out Art Hop on Friday, August 16th from 5-8 pm. Paintings completed during the day will be on sale, stores will have discounts and second sales, and restaurants will feature Paint-Out specials. 

Come down and celebrate the Paint-Out

 with special offers and demos at these participating merchants:

- All Things Bright and Beautiful – open & Gaelic will be painting
- Artisans’ Gallery – Candy Barr Original Oils plus many others
- Bridge Street Emporium – 15% off store-wide
- Mad River Glass Gallery – a tent sale
- Mad River Quilting - 10% off finished quilts
- Madsonian Museum – open and Maki Roll demo at 6 pm
- Mint – open for dinner
- Not Just Blackboards – Karla Bove in her studio with sample sale
- Peasant – will have a painter at their doorway
- Sweet Spot – open for ice cream
- The Green Close – open with a porch sale
- Waitsfield Pottery – demo & cheese platter for nibbling
- Walker Contemporary – open with treats from Sweet Pea
- Waitsfield Wine Shoppe - open for business!

Paintings created during the Paint-Out will be on sale both during the Art Hop and at

 the Paint-Out Sidewalk Art Show and Sale on 

Saturday, August 17 from 3-6 pm. 

This wonderful event feels like a mini-festival in the Festival and shouldn’t be missed. 

Come down for a while and watch a blank canvas become a painting right before your eyes!

Collection of Nine Studies - #81413 by Candy Barr

9 studies 5 x 7 inches - Oil on canvas board

Most of these have been posted already

$125 each

Pond Reflection - #81313 by Candy Barr

 8 x 10 Inches Oil on canvas

This was demo for my Plein Air Workshop that started today.

We had to begin indoors due to the heavy rain, and were lucky enough 

after lunch to be able to paint outside

 

 on location

How many plein air painters do you see with a Julian Easel strapped

to their BMW motorcycle?  And Jim arrived in the rain coming from 

1 hour away in Calais!  

 

Almost as good as George Coll in Colorado

traveling to his painting sites with his two pack llamas hauling his gear!

That Sheep May Safely Graze 3- #8713 by Candy Barr

 12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

The Waitsfield covered bridge standing along the Mad River in Vermont

 detail

 the Start ( standing in shaded part )

Mehdi Fallahian, plein air painter from Palm Springs

Every August 6th I try to paint a memorial on the anniversary of the bomb dropping on

Hiroshima, and title it the same, "That Sheep May Safely Graze"

Medhi happened to call me to see if I wanted to join him as he was visiting his doctor son and doctor daughter in law in Waterbury Center!  No way...last time I saw him we painted together in Palm Springs probably 8 years ago!  He spotted some work of mine in Artisans Gallery in town here.  We also painted with Terry Masters in Palm Springs, who now runs the Desert Painter Gallery there as well as teaches Plein Air workshops. 

Bragg Barn - #8413 by Candy Barr

 16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

 detail

Emilie's Home _ #72013 By Candy Barr

 16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas framed

$575  + S/H

See revision posted later Sept 4, 2013

From the 3rd Annual Jericho Plein Air Paint Out 

of Emile A Gruppé's daughter's home.

 At least it didn't rain most of the day, but the sun did play peek a boo a bit

Here are some of the final paintings done today from 70 artists. More have yet to be added 

and they will be rehung for the opening tomorrow, 

Barbara Greene, one of the organizers with artist

Mad River at American Flatbreads - #71713 by Candy Barr

  5 x 7 Inches Oil on canvas board

$195 + S/H

Along the Mad River near where RT 100 in Waitsfield and Lareau Farm Inn & American Flatbreads located.  We had our plein class here today  92 around 1 0'clock...down to 84 and lightening by 6pm.  Big showers by 8pm....Lucky to have sunny afternoon.

On Top of Mt Mansfield ~ tallest peak in Vermont

 

OK this is from summer during a plein air event at Mt Mansfield with the art exhibition later that day for the paintings done at Stowe Golf Course on Mt Mansfield or at the top of the mountain.  We were shuttled up with box lunches.  It was a lovely day.

This painting has been sold  but I would be happy to do another one up on the mountain for you!

Waitsfield Covered Bridge- demo start #71412 by Candy Barr

8 X 10 Oil on canvas- demo start

 My plein air class set up along the Mad River below the Covered Bridge that was damaged during Hurricane Irene Flood.  There is a missing building to the left.

Having our critique