A magical Edinburgh cottage. Digital collage © 2012 Liz Ruest, 8 layers
Author: Liz Ruest
Artist creating digital collage fine art by layering printmaking, photography, and paper collage. Roots in Ontario, based in the Pacific Northwest since 1989.
Gathering Spring Flowers
A trip to the tulip fields near Mount Vernon, WA, on a rainy day. A little too wet and cold to feel like spring was here, but these blooms made up for it. This set of images was one of my first successful passes with Lightroom. The organizing features helped me narrow in on the…
Get Yer Local Art Prints Here!
Hey Puget Sound residents! Want to support a local printing business? Printing company BumbleJax started an online curated art gallery, artprintstopia, and I was honored to be included in their list of artists. They offer fantastic modern mounting options using acrylic, aluminum or bamboo. These are the guys who printed Remnants for me, as well as the…
Why Abstraction?
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Brault, via artsyforager on Twitter
Flying House Sale
This local art sale was fabulous! 17 artists and craftspeople, all very supportive and friendly and talented, with over 200 visitors in 2 days. Saturday and Sunday April 28 & 29, 11 am to 5 pm Local artists brought mixed media, garden art, jewelry, fused glass, textiles, handmade soaps and lotions, watercolors, encaustics, baked goods &…
Receding
Fading flowers. Digital collage © 2012 Liz Ruest
A Sense of Place
On a recent trip to Portland, I visited Annie Meyer‘s gallery, and was inspired by her artist’s statement. My landscapes … are of specific places, but with minimal colors and shapes they are more emotional rather than factual in content. [They have] … evolved into what I consider an abstract sense of time and place…
Julia Hensley’s Installation: Heighten
I saw this last week and loved it! Go see for yourself at University Heights Center in Seattle until April 20th, or after that, as it slowly disappears. http://www.juliahensley.com/journal/2012/3/15/a-giant-u-heighten-second-opening.html.