Salt River At Turn - #12014 by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Finding intense hot colors in the desert is always a tad startling, as everything tends to be understated.
When leaves turn, or some flower is in bloom, it's especially beautiful.

Let the beauty you see be who you are.  _Rumi 

Resting #11914 by Candy Barr

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Painting at a horse ranch in Cave Creek... this fellow didn't get to go on the trail ride with the others, so he kindly posed for me....

Buddha Chakras #11814 by Candy Barr

 36 x 36 x 2 inches Oil on canvas

Pensive -#11714 by Candy Barr

 24 x 24 Inches Oil on canvas

Big Mountain at Salt River #11614 by Candy Barr

  11 x 14 inches Oil

 Facing east in the morning this view is dark and in total shadow until about 9am or so, when the sun starts cracking over the mountain ridge which runs north into Bulldog Canyon. This is part of Tonto National Forest and luckily for us is still open after many park shut downs.

Here's another done of the Salt River at same spot, and I'll post again in a few days by itself.

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

Gold Canyon #11514 by Candy Barr

 11 x 14 inches Oil 

A few of us met in Gold Canyon nearly in Superior AZ to paint.
So many interesting views of washes, far away mountains, and plenty of cacti everywhere.

Eating on the patio of the Gold Canyon Golf Club felt very civilized.  Sounds like a varied and challenging course.  With my daughter Trillium Sellers as a professional golf instructor, I have to keep up with this side of nature! (Proud mama alert: There is a full page with her in this month's Jan 2014 Golf Digest, p 25 as Best Young Teacher, with lesson
 "Your Go-to Greenside Shot (make your first option the simplest one).
She's good.  )
Which makes me remember when my 2 kids were in middle school during one summer they played in JR Golf League.  That meant once a week, they would play at a different golf course.  After I watched their drives and walked part of the first hole with them, I would meander off to paint some vista along the course, finishing in time to watch them play out the 18th hole.  Everybody had a good time! And certainly it was fun for me to see a different course this way each week.  I remember her coming in fifth in her division at the end of the summer.

Elephant Butte -l #11414 by Candy Barr

 18 x 24 Inches Oil

Superstition Mts by Candy Barr - # 1914

 18 x 24 x 2 inches Oil

Since the National Parks have lost their budgets in many of the AZ parks, we have to find new locations to set up and paint some of the classical scenes.  Some of the locals came by to see what we were doing.  Sadly an airplane crashed in the middle of this particular mountain one told me, and when the light is right, you can see an 'angel of death'  where the plane hit. A father with his 2 children and engineer pilot.