by Ruth | Jan 5, 2016 | Art Classes, Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, creative process, down on the farm, Farm Life, Fun with Art, Paintings
The New Year always gives me a feeling of great potential. I spend time going over the past year’s accomplishments and deficits and setting goals for the coming months. This weekend we woke to a blanket of white over everything. It makes the land look fresh,...
by Ruth | Jun 23, 2015 | abstract art, Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, contest, Fun with Art, Recently Viewed Art
It’s my blog’s Anniversary! First, I’m celebrating by doing a Giveaway of my original painting, below. And, the Winner is: Kristen Hamilton! Congratulations Kristen! 🙂 Way back in June 2008, I started an adventure in putting my ideas on the World...
by Ruth | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog Art is Truth, blogging, contest, Fun with Art, Recently Viewed Art
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson I’ve just returned from the 40th Exhibition of the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies in...
by Ruth | May 1, 2015 | abstract art, Art Classes, Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, creative process, down on the farm, Farm Life, Fun with Art, Paintings
Gardening has taught me so much about painting. Here are a few kernels of advice for all you budding (get it?) artists and gardeners. You know how it is when you come home after 10 days away and some of the little things have changed drastically? Yeah, that happened!...
by Ruth | Mar 3, 2015 | abstract art, Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, creative process, down on the farm, Farm Life, Fun with Art, Paintings, Recently Viewed Art
“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.” (Socrates) Don Gray’s...
by Ruth | Dec 31, 2014 | abstract art, Art Classes, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, cold wax, creative process, landscapes, My Work on Display
Happy New Year! The mad dash of the Holiday season is over and today is a time for recalling some of the successes of 2014 and looking forward to 2015. My posting here has been as thin as my new paintings, though I did finish a gift for my son in time for Christmas...
