Fall Painting Classes in the Beach

 Watercolour, Acrylic and MixedMedia       Watercolour can be so much fun. It’s a joy to share the fun of washes, colour and all that watercolour will do in my six week ongoing painting sessions. This Fall there are three one day Saturday...

Art Camp

Summer Art Camp for Grown ups The call of Summer is here with all it’s beauty and my summer art camp.  August has been full for a while but July had cancellations so there is space available. July 11-15th paint each morning by the beach or inside. My studio...

Art and Magic

Perhaps the winter is really gone and at last the soft warmth of the sun is to be trusted. Another real  sign of spring seems to be a creative awakening on all fronts from music to art to theatre. The human spirit seems to reaffirm itself after the cold and dark...

Alternate Hand Painting

    There is theory which is what we study in a classroom and then real life where theory often flies out the window. So what happens when an artist loses the use of their dominant right hand? Blue Chaos An interesting exercise in my painting classes has...

Working the Darks in Painting

Working the Dark Evening Light      Watercolour    Ruth Hayes Struggling with darks in painting, loving the dark, working the dark all become metaphor. December is the darkest time of the year and getting through the dark days of winter or...