Waves Coming In - #72713 by Candy Barr

6 x 6 inches Oil on Cradled Birch 

Waves in soft light -#72113 by Candy Barr

6 x 6 inches Oil on Cradled Birch

$195 + S/H 

Double Roller - #7213 by Candy Barr

 

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Capturing the last light of the day towards high tide... Couldn't be in a better place. 

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. 

Ocean Waves at Small Point - #62811

11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas board

Glorious morning with glistening sparkles from sunshine after days of drizzly rain. You can see the drag marks in the sand of my easel due to the encroaching tide coming in. Must be mindful of which way it's going!

Ocean Waves Crossing

12 x 12 inches Oil on canvas

Standing on the beach, trying to capture the patterns and texture and colors while it's all moving...so absorbing to listen to as well.

Here's the start and you can see I'm painting over an earlier reclining nude that's getting retired!

Southampton Wave

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

$99. + S/H

Southampton beach was so spectacular over the weekend, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky or more than a dozen people in the morning when we were there!

Grey Day Wave I

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas

Rain and more rain in Maine...the good news
is the greys are sumptuous~!

Waves IV

5.5" x 12" Oil on hardboard

My camera batteries have punked out, this beach
color was repainted a lighter neutral tan instead
of the orange. I'm waiting for a replacement battery
from Sony to come so...
until it arrives (and hopefully will then camera work,
the message "system error" is nothing more than
shot batteries) I'll post some older work that
has been photographed.

Waves II

6" x 6" Oil on hardboard

Waves III

5.5" x 12" Oil on hardboard

$175. + S/H SOLD

I was listening to NPR while I was painting.
An interesting ambassador from Sudan,
speaking about boundaries and
the insurgency and Dafur. He lived in the US teaching
in the Chicago area I believe for nearly 20 years,
then returned to Africa.
The history of troubles seem to have begun with the British
rule, and then their wanting independence, like
others around them having gotten independence
from the British. Who's in charge seems
to be where they are stuck.
Is it to be a dictatorship or democracy?
All the fighting trying to decide meanwhile,
where so many innocent people suffer the
turmoil and instability around them.

What an honor and priviledge
standing on a beach figuring out the
complexities of the waves in oils.

Waves I

6 " x 6" on hardboard

Made it to MAINE, with an overnight in York
en route staying with roommate Martha from RISD,
and her husband Jay, MFA Ceramics at RISD.

It's been misty and overcast since we arrived, with
some rain here and there as well. Beautiful to take walks
on the beach, but one early morning outing to a private
lobster dock caught me in the rain.
I moved off dock to above with view
looking down on the dories instead,
protected under pineboughs and a small
umbrella rigged to another easel. Even I
felt the occasion was arduous. I was looking
through oak brances at boats, but for a small
canvas it was too busy, and I wiped it out before
returning. How do you like that?
I usually save
ones overburdened, just to see the what not to do,
or appreciate the good spots, or who knows what else
might reveal itself? In this case, the wetness of the
experience overall was not memorable. Oh, I hadn't
brought my slicker, so I just had some cotton layers
on, not so protective of dampness.
So painting the surf on overcast day above nestled next
to large rock cliffs was a pleasure.

$99. + S/H