by Ruth | Aug 14, 2013 | Art Classes, Blog Art is Truth, creative process, down on the farm, Fun with Art, Paintings
The season is here for back to school preparations: parents, kids, teens and teachers are gathering school supplies, shopping for school clothes, decorating bulletin boards, dreaming up dorm room layouts, and getting organized to prepare for the first day of classes....
by Ruth | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, down on the farm, My Work on Display, Paintings
There is always a sort of panic when it is time for corralling new work to take to a gallery. Until everything is framed, it is fair game for revision, and often the test of time reveals weaknesses in a work. “Fog and Flood” is a painting that I began way...
by Ruth | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, down on the farm, featured images, My Work on Display, Paintings
Here is another painting that will be on its way to Riversea Gallery tomorrow. I find it more difficult to get as many color variations in the smaller paintings, but I enjoyed the transparent layers and veils of colors. The river that flows through the farm is small,...
by Ruth | Aug 2, 2013 | Blog Art is Truth, creative process, down on the farm, Farm Life, My Work on Display, Paintings
As I paint this series, all kinds of memories of growing up come back to me. When I was little, the biggest event of the week was ‘going to town.’ On Sunday mornings, we would head seven miles down the road to the thriving metropolis of Albany, Oregon to...
by Ruth | Jul 29, 2013 | Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, creative process, down on the farm, Paintings
Here is another example of a painting going through its final transformations. My friend, Sue Martin, wrote on her blog this week about a painting’s “birthing pains” and how some paintings seem to slip easily into the world, and others take more...
by Ruth | Jul 26, 2013 | Artwork online, Blog Art is Truth, blogging, creative process, down on the farm, My Work on Display, Paintings
One of the things I love about blogging is how it records the creative process. Often times a painting goes through either radical or subtle changes before it feels complete. Sometimes a change occurs even after I feel the painting is complete. This can be because I...
