We worked together to change oil in one ... that this barn is painted fire-engine red, or as dad puts it, “if it looks like it’s bleeding, it’s the right color.” Many old barns are ...

red paint. Old House Handyman ... 3 and I were on ladders slinging oil-based, International Harvester-red paint onto the south-facing, broad side of the barn. We talked about the smelly paint ...

Oil primer penetrates old, weathered wood better than latex ... But you'd waste too much paint trying to paint a barn with it. There's too much "overspray." Overspray is paint that is atomized ...

For reasons I’m not sure that I can even explain, I love that old barn ... linseed oil and red iron oxide. Iron oxide is essentially rust and it was the iron oxide that gave the “paint ...

Dr. Robert Kroeger Kroeger has spent years traveling the state to create oil paintings of old Ohio barns. Each painting is done in the oil impasto technique with palette knife. When finished ...