Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

Q. This week: The question you answered last week about painting a house was in some ways, but not all, pertinent to what I'm going to do this summer - paint my barn. What should I use, latex or oil?

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Scott Hagan paints Commodore Abraham Whipple on a barn near Marietta, Ohio. Historians say the shipbuilder lived in the area. The barn on state Route 821, just outside of Marietta on the eastern edge ...

How do you measure the impact of a productive and creative life? For barn star artist Eric Claypoole of Lenhartsville, it’s by counting barns. Beginning this summer in July and just ending in ...

TOWANDA, Ill. — Advertising signs painted on rural barns were once a common sight across the country in 1920s and 1930s, and they are making a comeback on Jo Morrison’s farm east of Towanda. Laboring ...

In the decade since property owners across Ohio allowed their barns to become canvases to celebrate the state’s bicentennial, some of those wall-size logos have faded, others have been repainted and ...