Creating Your Artistic Identity
Learn how to develop your own personal artistic style. Ruth will present slide lectures and demonstrations to help identify areas of individual strength and interest and opportunities for analysis. Students will study design, color harmony, accomplishing mood and meaning and choosing subject matter. Individual critiques of work from home and guided painting time will help ea...
Learn how to develop your own personal artistic style. Ruth will present slide lectures and demonstrations to help identify areas of individual strength and interest and opportunities for analysis. Students will study design, color harmony, accomplishing mood and meaning and choosing subject matter. Individual critiques of work from home and guided painting time will help each artist set goals toward a focus or style.
Ruth Armitage is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and the Northwest Watercolor Society and Past President of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. Her whimsical, expressive figure paintings have garnered numerous awards. Ruth's work can be viewed at Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, in Salem, Oregon and at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. Ruth's work has been included in many juried exhibitions including the National Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National, Taos Society of Watercolors, Kentucky Watercolor Society, Northwest Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Society of Oregon. Her work was featured in American Artist's Watercolor magazine in Summer 2005, as well as in a segment on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Oregon Art Beat" with K.C. Cowan in April 2004. Ruth was profiled in "Ones to Watch" for Watercolor Magic in 2000. For more information, go to www.rutharmitage.com.
Student Testimonials:
"Ruth, Thank you, thank you for your remarkable presence - helping me solidify my direction and ideas - acceptance of my real self, giving me confidence and clarity. Your loving smile, laughter and ability are the ingredients of a powerful influence." -Lisa
"Thank you for your patience, understanding, strength and sassiness. Your perseverance with our class has been phenomenal." -Wilda
"I treasure the experiences of learning new ideas, watching you create and working through my limitations. You are a positively inspiring person." -Christina
"I see painting differently now- as an expression of myself rather than a technical accomplishment. I always 'knew' intellectually that's what it must be- But that knowledge had got lost or buried some where along the line. I have gotten so much more from this week than I had hoped…" -Corinne
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"Ruth focuses on students, not on herself!"
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- Helen Brown
- Bend, OR
Review of Ruth Armitage Studios, November 19, 2008
I just spent three great days in Ruth's workshop where she had us experiment with 5 elements of design. By using one dominant element in each painting, we could see which technique we each preferred for our own painting. She never pushed us to paint like her (although we tried). Her goal was to achieve a sense of our own painting identity. She was great!
I just spent three great days in Ruth's workshop where she had us experiment with 5 elements of design. By using one dominant element in each painting, we could see which technique we each preferred for our own painting. She never pushed us to paint like her (although we tried). Her goal was to achieve a sense of our own painting identity. She was great!
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"Taking me to the next level"
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- Jacqueline
- Bend, OR
Review of Ruth Armitage Studios, November 19, 2008
What I loved about Ruth Armitage's workshop in Bend, Oregon is that she gave us lots of information on how to find our inner artist. We did a series of paintings using the different aspects of elements of design and came out with some surprising results. This is not your typical "watch me paint, then you go paint like me" workshop. This class focused on how to improve our own style. Thanks Ruth!
JacquelineWhat I loved about Ruth Armitage's workshop in Bend, Oregon is that she gave us lots of information on how to find our inner artist. We did a series of paintings using the different aspects of elements of design and came out with some surprising results. This is not your typical "watch me paint, then you go paint like me" workshop. This class focused on how to improve our own style. Thanks ...
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