by Ruth | Jan 18, 2010 | Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, Critique
F79DTVSD6V8C I’ve been visiting blogs this morning and followed a link from Mary Lou Zeek’s blog to one of the artists participating in the 100 Artists show: Jessica Burke. She is an Art professor at Western Oregon State University and does some fabulous...
by Ruth | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, Critique, Recently Viewed Art
Last weekend my sister and I spent some time with our friend Michele who was house-sitting near Otis, Oregon. It was the ultimate girls’ weekend… laughter, wine, great food, peace & quiet…. We hiked what I would consider the ultimate Oregon coast...
by Ruth | Jun 15, 2009 | Art Collectors, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, Critique, Uncategorized
It has been a busy weekend… our last two kids came home from college… I just about wrote ‘teenagers’, but our oldest just turned 21! How did that happen? Seems like just yesterday I was driving her to pre-school! She and I share the studio...
by Ruth | Jun 8, 2009 | Blog Art is Truth, Books I'm Reading, creative process, Critique
You paint the way you have to in order to give, that’s life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. -Franz Kline I love the above quote by Franz Kline… for me it...
by Ruth | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, Critique
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valéry I woke this morning to more snow! It wasn’t anything that could stop a person from getting out & about, just a light dusting, and so pretty! We had our critique group meeting at...
by Ruth | Feb 9, 2009 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, Critique, Uncategorized
It has been a busy weekend, and today was a nice chance to get back into the studio and back to a routine. I’ve been working on a painting based on a snapshot of my mother holding me when I was about 2 months of age. It is a rather iconic image of Mother &...
