I am truly sorry if any of you have had trouble contacting me in the past week. My web server crashed, leaving me without website, blog or email for 5 days. ;(
I finally switched to a new host today, and after spending the better part of the day getting the switch made, I am up and running again!
Woo Hoo!
I had my fingers crossed today would be the day.
I spent so much time looking at the URL I started making other words like turning Art Is Truth to “Artist Ruth.” I know, I know, get off the puter and start painting. Glad your problem is solved.
Carrie
Thanks Carrie 🙂 Glad you got the play on words from Art is Truth to Artist Ruth 🙂 Happy painting!
Hi Ruth,
Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I’m definitely a “newbie” at this whole thing, but I’m excited to get it going. Now if I can just figure out how to add more time to my allotted 24 hours! Also – good to hear about your good health news. We love good news!
Thanks Donna! I like your blog so far… good information and fun images 🙂
Ruth, what color do you use to get the brilliant, neon turquoise that you use to accent so many of your paintings?
Most times I use some brand of cobalt turquoise, but it could also be Holbein blue-grey or caran d’ache…. I would have to look at the individual painting to tell you which one…. and sometimes it is a combination of all three 🙂
A wonderful comment from Barbara Crafton’s ‘almost-daily meditation’ written from her current church in Florence Italy:
“How art ennobles! And how delighted artists are in each other! How appreciative of good stuff, and, at their best, how willing to let beginners be beginners. They have journeyed to this city for centuries, to teach and to learn, to create. Human beings fully using the gifts God gave them are embodied signs of God’s presence in the world, and this is true no matter how secular the art form.
We sit at the breakfast table and an unlovely squeak emerges from a young throat across the driveway. I wince a bit, and one of my young friends from Juilliard, where you don’t go unless you’re already very good at what you do, smiles gently. We all have to start somewhere, he tells me.”
Isn’t this so true!
Ruth, the paintings where you have used such vivid accents include: ‘Show Shopping’, ‘Dance Time’ and ‘Plays Well With Others’. I am trying my watercolor pencils and that is working fairly well.
Good Diane! I use things that are fairly opaque like that…. watercolor crayon, thick opaque watercolor, whatever works 🙂 The key is to keep it fairly gestural. Have fun!
Glad to hear your good news too Ruth!
I didn’t realize about your health, relief!
I love your accent marks that Diane mentioned above, you’ve certainly given me courage with brush, color and a bolder stroke.
Pamela
Thanks Pamela! It was a big relief 🙂