Remnants

Still a leaf, but just barely. Digital collage © 2012 Liz Ruest, 11 layers

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…

Receding

Fading flowers. Digital collage © 2012 Liz Ruest

Nourishment

Recent work exploring a theme of documentation. Acrylic over digital collage © 2011 Liz Ruest

Creating on a Deadline

The annual artEAST fundraiser 150′ of Art is upon us again. I love the idea: artEAST members produce works within the same 12″x12″ format for an online auction (running May 6-29 this year), and I have happily participated before, with my piece Verdant Haze. Of course, that time, I already had a piece I loved,…