Rock Reflection - #81813 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Started over standing nude painting... The Festival photographer commented as she passed by that she couldn't photograph this as it wouldn't be published...Hello??

 

My paintings lined up that I did in last 3 days.

Rock Up the Mad River - #81513 by Candy Barr

 

 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas

 

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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!

Connecting Landscapes - #51711

48 x 96 inches - Oil/Mixed Media on canvas

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There are 5 paint by number paintings embedded into this larger painting on canvas along with a reversed needlepoint. It seemed like a good idea at the time! It was exhibited at the Stratton Arts Festival over 10 years ago when they had an annual juried state wide contemporary art show.

It still looks great, and would be fantastic in a conference room or lobby wall!

Sage Heat ~

58 x 72 inches Oil on canvas




16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

The large one commissioned from my earlier smaller version. It was shipped to DC today.
We're heading back east Thursday, so the studio is getting put away till next winter.

Table Mesa

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

A previous post, but this seemed a bit flat, and I couldn't think that I had been a bit rained out that day. Returning last week, it was a sunny day, hardly the same light conditions, but I think it was improved.

Here's where I was set up the first overcast day.

Sage Heat & Art Collector: December Ad

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas



This is rework of an older painting

The Art Collector magazine can be purchased from bookstores periodical section and good way to see artists putting their work out there independently or through galleries.

Stowe Church

7 x 21 inches Oil on wood SOLD

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.

Victoria Falls

16 x 16 inches Oil on canvas



Framed



earlier version

I added some warm tones and darker
areas because it just needed a bit.

3 Fishermen

18 x 24 inches Oil on canvas

Same Winooski River, as yesterday's post,
year before on sunny evening looking
down river in opposite direction.
The river was much lower

River Rainy Day

8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas board

We were standing under Rt 100 ..a tall bridge
that protected us from the lightening, heavy rain
and wetness. A few canoers and kayakers went
by at one point. It was wild how the light
would change so incredibly every 15 minutes.
The clouds were doing some wild shapes.
It was like painting a movie while it was going.
I could have come up with 4 different paintings
but the greys were interesting with
occasional pops of color as the rain would
periodically stop.

And the fish would jump and make a loud
SPLASH!

Fishing

11 x 14 Oil on canvas SOLD

Starting to get some piles together for
annual 2 week Maine retreat with
5 other women artists. Working
on prepping canvases, dry goods,
and the infinite details to remember.

Planning to visit harbors and boats
plein air this trip...weather permitting!

Stowe Church

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas

Available from Vermont Fine Art Gallery
in Stowe Vermont

details of final painting

This was a nice departure from the arid scenes in
Arizona and the nudes!

Feeling a bit guilty with my friends
left behind that are
working hard to keep warm, heat a studio
and maintain sanity
in the dark days of winter.

2nd state

1st Stage

Sprague River

8" x 8" Oil on hardboard SOLD

It's brackish water here where the ocean
enters from behind where I'm painting at
high tide. The tide is going out here.

$275 + S/H

Big Drop

16" x 16" Oil on canvas

Another day by the rushing water.
The sound the falling water makes is so loud,
and has an irregular rhythm as it falls
in uneven amounts but steady.
My underpainting of orange is so perfect
with all the moss green,grey rocks and dark shadows.
I'll post another stage most likely. I miss the orange
and brightness with warm.

Victoria Falls

18" x 18" Oil on canvas

Process

This was such a stupendous site, listening to the rushing water and figuring out a composition quickly. I may need to go back into this to get the color back in the earlier layout above.

Fishing Bridge

20" x 24" Oil on board 2001

$225. + S/H

Pitcher Inn Falls

12" x 12" Oil

Summer River

12" x 12" Oil

Summer rivers are the best.
the water changes color constantly,
from green to red to blue reflecting the sky...
wondrous with the rocks.

Cascading River

24" x 36" Oil SOLD