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!

Willow at Wadsworth Pond - #82811

6 x 6 inches Oil on Birch Ply




Here's pond across the street from where I live with Prickly Mountain in backdrop. I planted this willow tree in 1979 thinking it would have long tassels to swing on like the willow I grew up with. Not. Guess I didn't read the label carefully at the nursery about what KIND of willow this was going to be. Hmmm. Lots of different willows it turns out. Kind of a major disappointment, but it has a good presence anyway.



My plein air class happily painting away. We're in the storm path today with heavy rain and wind all day.

Wadsworth Pond

8 x 10 inches Oil on hardboard

Officially this is Wadsworth Pond, but because it's at Prickly Mountain, it's usually called Prickly Pond. I planted the willow tree 20 years ago, thinking it would have long willows to swing on, like I had growing up. Well, turns out there are many varieties of willow trees, and this one is just a stunted kind. Hmmm, I guess it has a distinctive shape nevertheless, just not as functional as I was hoping for.