Saturday, March 23, 2013

Off the Trail #32313 by Candy Barr


 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas SOLD 

I love to paint horses, so let me know if you have a special one you'd like me to capture

Weekends in Arizona are especially good times for group rides...


Thursday, March 21, 2013

Saguaro at Gateway #32113 by Candy Barr


8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas 
Demo for my class


Here is our small group I gave plein air class to this week at McDowell Sonoran Preserve at Gateway. Really nice paintings and efforts all around! (I guess visors are the way to go when it's hot here!)


Friday, March 15, 2013

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Cliff in Grand Canyon #31213 by Candy Barr


11 x 14 inches oil on canvas

This is a repost to put some Grand Canyon paintings together. I'm heading to paint in Sedona tomorrow at Slide Rock.  Have never been, joining up with the Arizona Plein Air Painters.


Saturday, March 9, 2013

Superstition Mts Rain #3913 by Candy Barr

16 x 20 inches Oil on canvas


Painting in the drizzling rain with temperatures in mid 40's... Arizona Plein Air Painters event but only 4 of us showed up at Lost Dutchman's Park in Apache Junction.  A nice part of Arizona
and here was framed art in the restaurant we went in after painting!  
We picked a good spot to paint I guess! Looks like same saguaro some years ago. 

Chuck Prudhomme (best in show last year at the Casa Grande Paint Out)  with his rig....and Toni Perrin modeling her painting gloves for cold weather and a peak into her customized Art Studio in back of her Jeep.  Magnetized containers help to keep everything in place... so cool! Not in photos another good painter Stevie Denny! she had to leave pronto.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Morning Grand Canyon #3613 by Candy Barr

24 x 24 inches Oil on Canvas  SOLD

This was done on location, beginning at sunrise with the early morning light and shadows still coming into canyon.   Previously posted, but I thought it related to yesterday's post of the desert wash with the deep morning shadows. 
Painting on site at the Grand Canyon is extraodinary.. so much to see and get lost in...magnificence the scale....

Wednesday, March 6, 2013



11 x 14 inches Oil on canvas


We painted today at the Tonto National Forest near the Saguaro Lake at Bulldog Mountain. Looking north up the wash with morning shadows, that soon become lit as the sun rises.

A few couples walked past us, as well as two RV groups.  It's crowded in the desert!

early morning deep shadows
Working on an orange underpainting to compensate for all the desert greens
the morning shadows force you to capture them in the foreground first before the sun dissolves them
By mid morning note no shadow down in the wash anymore




detail

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Russian Girl Painting #3513 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Before dining at the extraordinary designer Joyce Crawford's home with Ann Leak, I painted a lovely picture hanging in her home that she acquired from her friend Margaret.

Standing lamp by painting, exposure only worked for one or the other...

We liked the abstract qualities of the paint box juxtaposed with the painting...

Monday, March 4, 2013

Looking for computer job from China #3413 by Candy Barr

 5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

Painted at the Paris in Springtime event on Saturday.  Jun Li and I had a lovely conversation, and her English was impressive.  She graduated in China, has a 23 yr old daughter working there still for a video game company. It's such a short time, I wish I had made the left eye more to match the right...gee whiz...seems so obvious now...20 minute oil study...and not really smaller than a number 6 flat brush.


Sunday, March 3, 2013

Cottage Garden #3313 by Candy Barr

Painting in Paris in Springtime In Glendale, AZ

 20 x 20 inches Oil on canvas in process 
~ need to figure out sky vs roof and tree and darken the porch and add the flowers on arbor...  Note how different relationship of roof and sky are in am to pm






this was from earlier in week capturing Brandon Hamilton before he interviewed
 Carol Migray the fantastic owner of both Cottage Garden I and II.





Saturday, March 2, 2013

Four Peaks #3113 by Candy Barr

 9 x 12 inches Oil on canvas SOLD

Posting this instead of the plein air event I went to today.  I'll try to complete it tomorrow and post the stages it went through.  

Friday, March 1, 2013

Cholla in Desert #22813 by Candy Barr

36 x 36 inches Oil on canvas

Come see me paint Saturday all day at the Paris in Spring event in Glendale, AZ
I'll be on N 58th Ave between Myrtle and Palmaire with the sidewalk sales of the shops!

Supposed to be in 80's!  A beautiful day to paint plein air.....

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