Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

As a member of Plein Air Austin, an organization of artists who paint on location around central Texas, I traveled to the Becker Vineyards between Stonewall and Fredericksburg . There were interesting buildings and good vistas even though the fields of lavendar had "gone by". As I was searching for something to paint the wind came up and this windmill began to turn and clatter. It got my attention!

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.

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