Ruthie Windsor-Mann Studio
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Welcome to the first newsletter for the studio. Due to
restrictions on my website, this will have to be a fairly
basic one with no room for bells and whistles, however if
you would like to receive a more advanced printed
newsletter, please get in touch with me at:
[email protected].
The photograph below is of the studio corner in my
studio/temporary home. It's been on a house tour in October
(
Using Space Artistically at Little Windbury
) and it was featured in the Fall 2013 issue of the
magazine
Small Room Decorating
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Up to date information can be found on the website:
Ruthie Windsor-Mann Studio
and on
the studio Facebook page
(Please click Like).
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A Bird Oasis?
The studio location seems to be a mecca for birds. I have
seen eagles and hawks and swallows follow me on the lawn
tractor. I have one bluebird house nailed to my shed more
for aesthetic reasons rather than for practical ones. Birds
of all species must have their own reservation book for as
soon as one family departs, another takes up residence.
Mockingbirds build nests in rose bushes and red bud trees.
Wrens, thrushes, and bluebirds take turns in the bluebird
house, while many attempt to build nests in ornamental
birdhouses on the porch. Painting the nests involves the
use of brush and palette knife using abstraction and detail
work.
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Wide Open
The studio is situated in an environment open to the
elements unlike the shaded environment of the North Carolina
mountains, where skies were only visible through leaves or
branches. I'm on a knoll with views of the sunrise and the
sunset and on many days I'm alerted to colors in the sky
I've never before seen. Previously I thought those sky
colors were invented by humans through the use of paint or
through maneuvering dials on photographic equipment. Not
so. They're real.
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Hay Series
Living in the middle of a hay field means that I'm
surrounded by hay bales twice a year. How magnificent it is
to see the light hit the hay bales in the early morning and
late afternoon producing those long, low shadows across the
pasture. Painting the colorful and textured hay bales with
their shadows is accomplished using both brushwork and
palette knife work.
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