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Plein-air Painting in Baraboo, WI, March 27, 2010

It was a cold and gray day, but I brought my paint box with me on our trip up to Baraboo anyways.  I was hoping to find a good spot to paint while Jim was cutting up a tree and loading it into the truck bed.

At one end of our field, I could just see the roof tops of Katherine’s barn and sheds.  What inspired me was the violet color of her weathered gray barn and the color and shape of the oak tree along the lot line.

I spent two hours painting on location that day and then finished this little piece in the studio.  

This piece, along with “Woodstock Park, June 09” and “Veterans Acres, Jun 09” will be shown in a group show at the Old Courthouse Art Center in Woodstock, IL for the months of June and July.