Sheriff Samuel Stout - #32215 by Candy Barr

11 x 14 inches Oil on birch ply

This has been revisited from Glendale Plein Air competition last year during the Glendale Chocolate Festival.  And from the Glendale AZ tourism: Territorial Sheriff (bronze sculpture) At the Public Safety and Courts Complex, Bill Nebeker’s 1990 sculpture commemorates Samuel Stout, a Glendale resident and Maricopa County’s 14th sheriff. Glendale dedicated the sculpture to the “men and women of today who, as members of the Court and the Fire and Police Departments, continue the honorable tradition of preserving the peace and enhancing the public safety.”

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~!

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

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. 

Reflecting Rock - #9313

5 x 7 Inches Oil on canvas board

Here's completed image of posting from the Plein Air Paint Out posted 8/19 earlier 

but seen only on the easel in process.

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!

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

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!

Plein Air competition

8 x 10 Inches Oil on canvas board SOLD

What a charming front elevation in this historic district. The house was built in the 1920's
and the 2nd owner is now living there who bought the painting from me.

Process standing across the street beginning at 9 am

Lou walking her dog Orleana (rescue dog from Katrina) came by early in the process and suggested I leave out the gate which was a super idea to help the center of focus become more adamant. ~ thanks Lou for your support along the process! It was a pleasure chatting with you.

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.

Best of Artists

Nectarines
4" x 7" Oil on wood

Here was my 15 minute demo for my
rained out plein air workshop.

My daughter painted this on a box
for a past Christmas present.
As a full time golf instructor
and professional photographer, who knew?

On the PR front, I was recently honored to be selected as a featured artist on the Best of Artists blog : www.bestofartists.com

For any plein artists in Virginia area wanting to be in paint out competition
Labor Day August 29th - September 1st 2008, check out the Art Space at Herndon.

With the steady rain, haven't been out too much.
Have my plein air students today, and we're doing still lifes indoors!