Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

This painting demonstrates the act of finding something quite ordinary and attempting to make it extraordinary. In painting from nature I find that the painting takes on a life of its own and the completed painting often differs from the orginally selected subject.

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The beginning strokes on a pristine canvas are always very exciting to me. I find it desirable but difficult to maintain the energy that is often evident in the early stages of a painting. This photo is included to demonstrate how I might start a painting. I was on location in the woods of North Carolina . The finished painting is the one apprearing above this photograph.

OUT OF THE BLUE was painted in 2004 for the Austin Museum of Art Auction.

Painted while in a Sydney Yeager weekend workshop . LANDSCAPE 4.07 is 24 x 30, oil on canvas. Purchased from my studio June 2007.