Moonlit Percheron | Ruth Soller - Blog

Moonlit Percheron Ruth Soller - Blog

My artistic mentor Michael Ome Untiedt has been working on nocturnal western landscapes and suggested that I might like to study Frederic Remington's nocturnal works. In this painting I challenged myself to create a "negative" view of my previous painting Out of the Mist. First, I flipped the image and printed out the negative version of Out of the Mist. This came out really weird, as if the light source was to the left and beneath the horse; not exactly what I had in mind. So, I was working much from imagination in creating a background with the moon as the light source and the horse being backlit by moonlight. My goal was to keep the background colors close to the same value, on my grey scale between a 3 and a 5 value. I think the result is pleasing. What are your thoughts?

Colorado Council on the Arts Exhibition | Ruth Soller - Blog



Black Canyon of Gunnison by Ruth Soller

These original oil paintings by Ruth Soller are accepted into the Colorado Council on the Arts Exhibition which will debut at Denver International Airport November 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011 and then will travel to Colorado State Capitol building for display March 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011.

Cache de Poudre by Ruth Soller

Out of the Mist | Ruth Soller - Blog

Out of the Mist Ruth Soller - Blog
This enormous yet gentle draft horse lives and works at Four Mile House Farm in Denver. This is the oldest remaining homestead in Denver and served as a way station and tavern four miles south of the Colorado State Capitol building. One of the jobs of the draft horses is to pull covered wagons in which visitors may ride on weekends. Note the powerful muscles of the neck, shoulders, and hips. My concept was to show him emerging from a chilly autumn morning fog as the sun just begins to break through to warm the fall foliage.

Out of the Mist by Ruth Soller, oil on linen, 11x14, $600