Jefferson Memorial with Blossoms #51515 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 inches Oil on canvas board.  SOLD

Gondolas at St Marks Sq. 8 x 12 Oil #72212 by Candy Barr

8 x 12 approx Oil on canvas

 Early morning set up before the crowds come in on docks at St Marks Square

A trip of a lifetime ...Michael and I went from Venice to Barcelona stopping along the way in cities along the Mediterranean.  I'll be posting some more.  Painting in Venice is divine.

Sebasco Dock- #72911

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

There were some color adjustments I finally got around to making from this June 28 post when I was in Maine. As the sun burned through the overcast morning, the colors were getting brighter.


And on my gallery in Stowe front, this weekend is the Stowe Art Festival. If you're in the area, please drop by!

Vermont Fine Art Gallery
Gale Farm Center 1880 Mountain Rd. #3 Stowe Vt 802-253-9653
www.vermontfineartgallery.com

Stowe Art Festival

Candy Barr original oil Portraits


July 30th - Candy Barr Portraits Impromptu 11-4pm & Party 5-7pm
10% of all sales for the day benefit the Helen Day Art Center.


Online Art Auction Opens Tuesday 11am See Website for Auction Items
www.vermontfineartgallery.com

Sunset Fishing Time - #62011

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

Wild Acres Lake

8 x 10 inches Watercolor charcoal pencil on paper

$99. + S/H

Beautiful spot to sit and sketch with June,
while Michael fishing with his oldest childhood friend Kenny.

Road Heading West

8 x 10 inches Oil on board SOLD

Lost Dog Trail Cactii

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas



Set up looking west

Back in Arizona painting finally. Takes a while to set up studio,
and settle in after driving across the country taking 2 weeks.

Nice to be back working!~ Thanks to Judy for inviting me to Lost Dog today..!

Prickly Mt through Birch Trees

8 x 8 inches Oil on masonite

A better composition

Posted earlier with 5 trees

Three Trees in Autumn study

6 x 8 inches Oil on canvas

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 ?

Girls Chatting

14 x 14 x 2.5 inches Oil on cradled birch SOLD



Detail



Version on location, posted in August

I decided to darken the water on right, lower Carol's leg, dumb down the white dock on far side of lake, and added some leaves to birch tree. (A bit of discrepancy in light of final one when I photographed)

Autumn Farm in Vermont

20 x 20 Inches Oil on canvas

~Needs more when dry~

Have you ever painted on vinyl? Well this particulary canvas I prepared was so slick
experimenting with different gesso. I had several coats of the oil based lead gesso, and I it was shiny it was so smooth. Consequently the paint was sliding all over, and impossible to build up surface, so I'll let it dry and make some adjustments next week.

A cold morning turned into a great day painting with six other plein airers!

Eric Tobin with his finished piece and subject in the background and Peter Miller nearly done.






Driving over Smuggler's Pass at 7Am it was 34 degrees and you can see the snow! Unusual to have the Pass open after the snow flies, but it's early this year. The light hitting the top of the mountain is called a reverse sunrise because you're facing west, and the sun coming over the mountains behind me.

At the start of the morning, John Caggiano, TM Nicholas, Peter Miller & Eric Tobin

(Ken Knowles and Susan setting up)

TM Nicholas and John Caggiano plein air along the river

Ken Knowles was around the bend

Person Eric Tobin

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Vermont Covered Bridge Waterville

14 x 14 x 2 inches Oil on cradled birch Sold

Process of the painting with temperature 37 degrees at 9am, and warmed up to low 50's by the afternoon. The flat light was even all day basically so no need to hurry!

TM Nicholas plein air workshop.. we had 2 other painters. I guess the cold weather sorts out the serious ones! I'll post more photos of workshop later.

Apple Orchard on Savage Island, Lake Champlain

11 x 14 inches Pastel on paper

Apple Tree on Savage Island, Lake Champlain

11 x 14 inches Pastel on paper SOLD

From where I spotted tree in orchard, with intermittent sunlight.

Birches Prickly Mountain

8 x 8 inches Oil on hardboard



Process

It was cold this week, and we had 4 inches of snow on Monday. And there is still snow in some patches.

On September 3, 1882 Van Gogh, while in Hague, wrote to Theo, in which he described his approach to painting.

[….]

In a way I am glad that I never learned painting. In all probability I would then have learned to ignore such effects as this. Now I can say to myself, this is just what I want. If it is impossible, it is impossible, but I'm going to try it even though I don't know how it ought to be done. I don't know myself how I paint it, I just sit down with a white board in front of the spot that appeals to me, I look at what is in front of my eyes, and I say to myself: that white board has got to turn into something - I come back, dissatisfied, I lay it to one side and when I have rested a little, I go and look at it with a kind of awe. Then I am still dissatisfied, because I have that splendid scenery too much in my mind to be satisfied with what I made of it. Yet I can see in my work an echo of what appealed to me, I can see that the scenery has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have taken it down in shorthand. My shorthand may contain words that cannot be deciphered, mistakes or gaps, and yet there is something left of what the wood or the beach or the figure has told me, and it isn't in tame or conventional language derived from a studied manner or from some system, but from nature itself. [….]

As translated by Mrs Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

Vermont Barn on Country Road in Autumn

9 x 12 inches Pastel on sanded paper SOLD

$325 + S/H






Process

The neutral colored sanded paper I rubbed entirely with a soft orange pastel to cover the entire page.