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Suffolk Punch Day is Done | Ruth Soller - Blog
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| Suffolk Punch Day is Done, oil on linen, 16x20, $1200 |
Driving home on a summer evening I saw this gorgeous pair of Suffolk Punch draft horses. Glowing in the last rays of sunlight they had just finished their day's work of pulling the dump rake over the freshly mown hay. Following them was a hay bailing tractor shaping the rows of hay into compact rectangular bails. The beauty of this vision etched in my mind compelled me to paint this scene to share it with you.
Suffolk Punch Day is Done Ruth Soller - Blog
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Colorado Council on the Arts Exhibition | Ruth Soller - Blog
Colorado Council on the Arts Exhibition Ruth Soller - Blog
Broomfield, CO artist Ruth Soller is thrilled that two of her oil paintings “Black Canyon of Gunnison” and “Cache de Poudre” are accepted in the Creative Capitol Metro Denver Exhibition. Creative Capitol celebrates Colorado artists and images of the state of Colorado. The Colorado Creative Industries & Denver International Airport received submissions from Colorado artists who reside in the following counties - Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. After four rounds of jurying of 222 artworks entered, 112 artworks by 83 Colorado artists were accepted for the exhibition. William Castner, Joellyn Duesberry, Kit Mahoney, Anita Mosher, Tony Ortega, Dennis Pendleton, Cheryl Price, and Harriet Peck Taylor are some of the well-known artists included in the exhibition. The Exhibit will be on display at Denver International Airport from November 5, 2010 to February 27, 2011 and at the Colorado State Capitol from March, 2011 to June, 2011.
In 2009, Denver International Airport was the tenth-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic with 50,167,485 passengers. The airport's distinctive white tensile fiberglass roof is aesthetically designed to be reminiscent of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains in winter. DIA is also known for a pedestrian bridge connecting the terminal to Concourse A that allows travelers to view planes taxiing directly underneath and provides sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains to the West and the high plains to the East. Both during construction and after the opening of the airport, Denver International Airport has set aside a portion of its construction and operation budgets for art. The corridor from the Jeppesen Terminal and Concourse A usually contains additional temporary exhibits.
The Colorado Creative Industries uses funds appropriated by the Governor and the legislature, combined with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, to invest in communities across the state. Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office to view the rotating exhibitions and to the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This new program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s rich creative economy and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
“Black Canyon of Gunnison” by Ruth Soller will also be published in the 2010 American Art Collector book by Alcove Books of Berkeley, California. Ruth is represented by Solveig Lark of Gallery East in Loveland, Colorado. http://www.GalleryEast.com
Broomfield, CO artist Ruth Soller is thrilled that two of her oil paintings “Black Canyon of Gunnison” and “Cache de Poudre” are accepted in the Creative Capitol Metro Denver Exhibition. Creative Capitol celebrates Colorado artists and images of the state of Colorado. The Colorado Creative Industries & Denver International Airport received submissions from Colorado artists who reside in the following counties - Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. After four rounds of jurying of 222 artworks entered, 112 artworks by 83 Colorado artists were accepted for the exhibition. William Castner, Joellyn Duesberry, Kit Mahoney, Anita Mosher, Tony Ortega, Dennis Pendleton, Cheryl Price, and Harriet Peck Taylor are some of the well-known artists included in the exhibition. The Exhibit will be on display at Denver International Airport from November 5, 2010 to February 27, 2011 and at the Colorado State Capitol from March, 2011 to June, 2011.
In 2009, Denver International Airport was the tenth-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic with 50,167,485 passengers. The airport's distinctive white tensile fiberglass roof is aesthetically designed to be reminiscent of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains in winter. DIA is also known for a pedestrian bridge connecting the terminal to Concourse A that allows travelers to view planes taxiing directly underneath and provides sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains to the West and the high plains to the East. Both during construction and after the opening of the airport, Denver International Airport has set aside a portion of its construction and operation budgets for art. The corridor from the Jeppesen Terminal and Concourse A usually contains additional temporary exhibits.
The Colorado Creative Industries uses funds appropriated by the Governor and the legislature, combined with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, to invest in communities across the state. Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office to view the rotating exhibitions and to the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This new program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s rich creative economy and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
“Black Canyon of Gunnison” by Ruth Soller will also be published in the 2010 American Art Collector book by Alcove Books of Berkeley, California. Ruth is represented by Solveig Lark of Gallery East in Loveland, Colorado. http://www.GalleryEast.com
Friday, September 24, 2010
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?
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?
Monday, September 20, 2010
Colorado Council on the Arts Exhibition | Ruth Soller - Blog
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| 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. |
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| Cache de Poudre by Ruth Soller |
Monday, September 6, 2010
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.
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.
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| Out of the Mist by Ruth Soller, oil on linen, 11x14, $600 |
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