I’d like to extend a special thank you to Darla Dixon for featuring us on her blog. Thanks Darla! You can see her pencil portraits and other drawings on her web site and in her Etsy shop.
"A E Ruffing’s Gorgeous Art"
New A E Ruffing Art Prints on Etsy
Our Ruffing’s Etsy shop has some new additions. We’ve listed quite a few fine art giclées in our shop. These are a small sampling. Above is “Oriole and Daylily”, depicting a Northern Oriole perched on an orange daylily.
This is “Hiding”, showing a little Eastern cottontail rabbit tucked away among the black-eyed Susans.
And this is “Sunday Morning”, a country porch scene with a rocking chair, all in blues and greens.
All of these giclée prints are based on original watercolor paintings by A E Ruffing, and are printed on heavy-weight fine art paper.
New Elizabeth Ruffing Fairy Prints
These are two new fairy art giclée prints for our Ruffing’s web site. Both are a standard size 8.5 by 11 inch image size on 9.5 x 12 inch fine art paper. Both are fantasy pieces based on my original watercolor and pen and ink paintings. Above is “Moon and Star” which depicts the moon as a woman with butterfly wings and a star as a young girl. Both are descending toward the horizon at dawn.
This giclée is entitled “The Moon Sings a Lullaby“. I was imagining what kind of lullaby the moon would sing, if the moon could sing, to help people drift off to sleep. I thought of the sounds of katydids, which I’ve always loved to listen to on summer nights. And I thought of the poppy field in The Wizard of Oz, which caused Dorothy and her friends to fall asleep on their way to The Emerald City. This is the moon singing us all to sleep with a lullaby full of poppies and katydids.Both prints are also available in my Etsy shop. Please visit!
Dr Frankenstein plays with dolls
I was planning a sincere effort to add new Paperclay feet with shoes to my doll project when it occurred to me that it would be a much better idea to do all my paperclay-ing at once. I knew I had a few unfinished dolls sitting around. So, I pulled them out and discovered that a lot of their bits were missing their pieces. I started cutting and sewing and stuffing. I’d been sewing arms and legs for a couple of days when, again, it occurred to me that it would be a much better idea to just make new legs for my doll, legs with new and improved feet…feet that already have shoes. Then I wouldn’t need to make her new paperclay feet at all.
So, I made more legs.
Looking at this pile of body parts, I’m not sure if I have actually created more or less to do. I think it may be a matter of perspective.
