Open House and Boat Parade This Saturday!

If you are near Gig Harbor, WA this Saturday, December 10, 2011, stop by the gallery For Art's Sake for their open house from 3-7PM.  Ruth will be there meeting visitors along with other artists.  The Gallery is also having their annual ornament sale to benefit a local charity. All ornaments are $2-$10.
The gallery is a perfect spot to watch the Gig Harbor Annual Holiday Boat Parade at 5:00PM as well.

See you there!

Five In Five Fundraiser for Reece's Rainbow

We are hoping to raise $500 in FIVE DAYS for Alexander's adoption fund. For each  $25 tax deductible donation using the CHIP IN below, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a gift basket of Artwork by Ruth.  This includes a 2012 Day Planner, Mug and Original Encaustic.

Alexander is an orphan with Down Syndrome awaiting to be adopted in an Eastern European country.  Reece's Rainbow is a non-profit organization that helps raise adoption grants for orphans with disabilities in hopes their forever family will find them soon!
Please let's blow the roof off the goal!

Come Out This Weekend to Support Ruth's Art!

Local Opportunities to Purchase Art and Gifts

Ruth will have a booth at the Spanaway Lake High School craft fair November 12 and 13th.  She will have her matted and framed encaustic art as well as gifts with her art on it such as coffee mugs, 2012 day planners, Christmas cards, gift tags, bookmarks and more!

Come and support Artwork By Ruth!

Labor Day Weekend Inspiration

We went out of town for Labor Day weekend and had some peaceful moments by a lake. Ruth made this acrylic after watching the sunset over the water.

Encaustic Demonstration Bremerton

Ruth was able to do a demonstration of her encaustic art at a retirement community in Bremerton today.  Many of the people living there are artists and part of the local association. Most of them paint using oils and this was a new and exciting art form for them.  They would like Ruth to come back and teach a class this fall. They were very encouraging and many purchased her art.
Thanks to the staff and residents at Cascades of Bremerton for hosting this demonstration today!

New Encaustic

Ruth has been changing up the background paper she uses in her Encaustic art. It almost looks like chalk on a blackboard, but it's wax!

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Our Artist

 Ruth with other professional artists giving her advice and buying her art!

 Ruth made 20 personalized pieces of art for those who came into the gallery to purchase!

Ruth by her display at the end of the day with dad. 

Gig Harbor Art Walk a Success!

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported Ruth today at Gig Harbor's Art Walk at the For Art Sake gallery! Over 100 visitors stopped by including local artists, museum directors, media and of course friends!
Ruth ended up making 20 pieces of art while in the gallery as many people wanted to put in their personalized requests for sizes, colors and details. She worked tirelessly for five hours! We are so proud of her!
Pictures coming soon!

Ruth's Art Process on You Tube

2011 VSA Submission

We submitted Ruth's art for the national VSA competition this weekend. We are so proud of her pieces! These are encaustic prints mounted on wood, and mounted again on 16x16 MDF boards. The first is "Seasons" where she did 9 panels depicting spring to winter, and the second is "Colors", 4 panels in which she did the same scene in monochrome to capture different feelings by color.  (It is so difficult to get the nature of encaustic to photograph well! Because it is wax, using a flash causes a reflection,and without a flash you can't see the detail. )

Playing with Encaustic

Ruth has been working hard at Encaustic getting ready for her art submission next month. She also has been asked to be the featured artist at the monthly "Art Walk" in Gig Harbor for the month of July. The local artist group have an official organization of about 200 artists. They are excited to have her become part of their community. There have been several inquiries into buying her art.
Ruth also had an amateur video made of her doing her art by her classmates in her video production class at school. We will be getting a copy and can't wait to see if it's worthy of sharing with all of you!

Art Contest for Artists with Disabilities

Know an artist 16-25 years old that also has a disability? Then you may want to encourage them to enter the VSA's Annual "National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities".  Ruth spent the day with an artist who owns a local gallery getting inspiration and ideas for her submissions, due by June 10, 2011.

Published!

A sample of Ruth's encaustic work was in the school district's spring newspaper this month, front page and in color!
Ruth is back to working on new pieces so hopefully we will get this site up and running.  I still need help with creating pages/buttons if anyone knows how! THANKS!

Ukrainian Sand Art

This technique of coloring sand and using in art is unique to the southern part of Ukraine where Ruth lived.

Encaustic

Nature scenes in hot wax

Ukrainian Themed Encaustic

Sceneries in hot wax inspired by her life in Ukraine