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!

Harbor Friends - #8213 by Candy Barr

16 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

Moonlit Rollers - #73113 by Candy Barr

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Rocks with Splash - #72913 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas

Low Tide - # 72813 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 Inches Oil on canvas

Damariscotta River Splash - #72513 by Candy Barr

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas

This was in E Boothbay Harbor painted during

 the Wednesday PAPME group time in June  (Plein Air Painters of Maine)

Rocks at Low Tide - #71913 by Candy Barr

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

$195. S/H

I'll be painting all day at the

3^rd Annual Jericho Plein Air Festival

Saturday July 20 will be the Emile A. Gruppé Plein Air Event in Jericho Vermont. 
 Drop by or see the exhibit of 70 artists -
which will take place at the Gruppe Gallery 22 Barber Rd, Jericho, VT
 from Sunday, July 21, through Sunday, August 11.

The public is invited to join the artists

 for an opening reception at the Gallery 

from 2:00pm to 4:00pm on July 21.

For further information: blgreene@myfairpoint.net or (802) 899-2974. 

Think I've gotten Picasa to hold my photos now on an external Hard Drive.  It seems to be able to edit, crop for posting on a blog.. My Photoshop crashed using Mt Lion OS 10.8.3  It's really more than anyone wants to know right? 

As Rihanna nearly sang, "Shut up and Paint!"

Crashing Wave -#7513 by Candy Barr

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

$195. + S/H 

 

Gull on Rock - #7313 by Candy Barr

Happy 4th of July

 Isn't freedom of expression sweet

 

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas panel

Watched the mother ducks instruct the ducklings how to fish in the morning and ride the surf.

Crashing Wave - #7113 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

No wifi in Maine while painting the last 2 weeks.  So will post the series of waves and rocks during high tide at various beaches.  Painted with the PAPME (plein air painters of Maine) on two occasions. NICE group!

The story of why I haven't posted in months is a saga really.  For starters my back really went out end of March.  And the short short version is grandson visit in LA, brother in Tulsa, Michael's son and family in CT,  my daughter Trillium and met Ben in NYC, computer program difficulty still between Aperture and iPhoto, and integrating them (or knowing how to use the external HD...that's really the saga part....), back to LA, then re entry into VERMONT for one week ...leak in roof, purging clothes closet, re ordering desk office area with closet, purging office... painting in Maine 2 weeks ...and now family visiting for 2 weeks. I'm cooking and getting ready for 11 month old grandson who nearly is walking. 

Double Falls - #8411

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board



Vermont swimming holes in the summer...


My group painting with me today, on these incredible rocks.

Moss Glen Falls, Granville VT- #71511

Each 11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas board

These are two separate paintings.

$325. free ship in US (painting on left)

A producer at Chronicle WCVB TV, the half hour New England magazine show that airs on the ABC television affiliate in Boston contacted me to film my class here this week!

He's working on a show, using waterfalls as the connecting theme,
including a number of different elements along the way.( Let's hear it for plein air daily painters!)
I went the day before filming to have one nearly completed,
and a start for another, similar to show the progression.

This was stage before they filmed, with the water yet to be painted in. It's always easier to add the lightest color last and have some of the darks a bit drier so the color lays down.

A gorgeous day in Granville Vermont at the Moss Glen Falls along Rt 100. They are hoping to have it ready to show by September. I'll pass on the date when they let me know!

This local was hot from haying, and came here to cool off the day before the filming!

Rainbow Rock - #52911

18 x 18 inches Oil on canvas

Tide going out with interesting rock formations in Maine.

Seal Cove - Isaiah's Head

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas SOLD

(Here's nearby beach from cliff - reposted from 2008)

Rainbow Rock

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Low tide and a dramatic looking rock with beautiful color gradations on it.
It has to be a special occasion, due to the uneven footing to set up and stand painting!
Mother & ducklings having lessons on fishing all morning.

Low Tide Early Morning Rocks

20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas



This wet moss seaweed is pretty darn spring green in the early morning light.





The sound of the glug, glug, glug of the low engine going by to check his traps was a comforting sound at 7 am.

Stalwart Soldier

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Doing the demo for my plein air class this morning at 8 am. It was 38 degrees when I set up. By noon it was 50 and the coats were off!

Canoeing

9 x 13 inches Oil on masonite (MDF)

Before when rock reflection too long

It was painted in summer, but this is fall view

I'm so used to working on location, and painting scenes as I see them without editing. I know for composition you are told to move a tree or rock etc, but with my extensive photography background, I never felt cropping was legitimate when making a good photograph, so I've just assumed doing the same thing with a painting is not as good either. Isn't that something? And I thought touching up on paintings done on location was a no-no. It's about time, I get OVER that syndrome ...don't you think? So all I have to do is have a general flavor of what I have in mind, then alter whatever needs adjusting in order to capture what I'm going after. So we'll see how the future paintings unfold. ( Painters are funny aren't we?)

Since I'm getting things cleared out and cleaned for winter skiers, I'm not going to be doing much painting for the next month. Then we'll be on the road, and guests everywhere, so not too much painting either. Perhaps I'll travel with pastels ?

Rushing Water

11 x 14 inches Oil on birch

Rushing river over rocks ...cannot be anymore exciting. The water has been high with all the rain we have had in Vermont this summer.

Maine Rocks

18 x 18 inches Oil on canvas



On the beach at 7 am to chilly grey overcast day

I primed this with a pink gesso
With all the blues and greens in plein air,
or for this grey day, the pink underpainting
gives a little pizzazz to the colors.



Tide going out



Sun started to break through clouds