Fundraiser for Vera Bradley Foundation with Rusty Harden

"Ribbons for a Cure"
11" x 14"
acrylic on canvas
$40.00
October 16, 2010
10 - 5
Painting Project begins at 1 - 4

Educational Information, Door Prizes and Refreshments

Create your own powerful statement of HOPE with this painting.
Paint along with Rusty Harden, a step by step instruction with
all of the supplies you need to create your artwork provided.

Proceeds are going to the Vera Bradley Foundation

Door Prizes are being provided by Urban Ava, Earth's Center, and Studio 14.
There will be a raffle for the original "Ribbons for a Cure" Painting and a gift certificate from the Earth's Center.
(Raffles tickets go on sale September 24. Winners will be notified October 16th)

Earth's Center will have some of their massage therapists providing neck and shoulder
massages for a $5 donation for five minutes.

For more information and to purchase your seat or make a donation:
http://studio14gallery.blogspot.com/

Lovely Galleries in My New Web Site

"Drifting Souls"
Original Watercolor

Visit my new website, http://www.abrushwithrusty.com/ Please look and meander through the galleries. I have posted four of my most favorite styles and subjects into seperate galleries. I have to thank Sixot for their experience and professional skills for constructing my site. I have really appreciated that they listened to my needs and made thoughtful suggestions.

I am so very proud for you to see my artwork displayed so beautifully.

Amazement and Anquish

“Consternation”"
Price Original: $550 (Prints are available)
15”x 22"
Acrylic Ink on 140lb cold press paper

To quote Dante’s Inferno: “There is no greater anguish than in misery to remember the happy time.”
The majestic scene represents our glorious memories.
Misery, grief, torment can melt our majestic scenes.

Naming Abstract ACEOs

"Quixotic" ACEO

A romance of impractical ideas

Naming pieces of artwork of any type has always been a challenge for me. Unless there some extraordinary connection to a piece I often resorted to some gratuitous name. I found that names come easier if I have determined the story or purpose for the paintings early on in the creative process.

As for non-object or abstract paintings the story comes when the piece is finished. Now I live with the artwork. Whether a large painting or a miniature ACEO, I notice my emotional response to see the piece. I take pictures of them and view them in a slideshow, hang them on my wall, and sometimes carry it in my DayRunner. Recently, I have been enjoying having my friend, Linda, look at the ACEOs with me. One of us will start a thought and then we volley it between us. Each time the idea comes clearer and often profound . As in the title, Quixotic.

Quixotic comes from Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes's novel. He was inpsire by lofty even chivalrous ideas but completely unrealizable.

The ACEO was full of colors that reminded us of romantic or idealistic notions. The color is right for it. Maybe it was our mood but we weren't having it.

I see figures walking away from one another, what do you see?

A preying mantess?

Rhythms of the Earth-Abstract Mineral Paintings

Rhythms of the Earth

RE6

6"x 6"

Acrylic Ink on HP Arches 140lb

Small but dynamic works of art. These make a powerful statement as one or a grouping.

The counterpart to my mineral artistry. These paintings capture the engergy of the earth's treasures by abstracting the minerals and other natural elements of the earth in color and movement.

Interested in purchasing this painting? Interested in other sizes or colors?

Contact me through this blog.

Want to see more?

Check out my Etsy site

http://www.abrushwithrusty.etsy.com/