Good News Post!

Saugatuck Journey of Light
22x30
Mixed Media
©Antonia Ruppert

This is a quick Good News Post!

I'm super thrilled as I write this. My proposed piece - "Saugatuck Journey of Light" has been accepted by the Arc Hotel which is being built in Muncie, IN. I am thankful to God for the opportunity and for my friend Bill who let me know about it.

Oli's Pets
12x12
Acrylic on Panel
©Antonia Ruppert

This piece came together this week to a great response.  This is what I was told, "OMGoodness...you are awesome...it is beautiful...I knew you would do an amazing job...God bless your hands woman!" 

Rough Patch
14x14
Acrylic on Paper
©Antonia Ruppert

This piece is something different for me. Very. I was surprised at the playfulness and freedom of it.  I put music on and my paints and this is what happened.

So thats it. Good news all around.  Thank you for joining me here!

Mmm! Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI.

Oxbow path ©Antonia Ruppert

Mmm! Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency. Good views. Yummy food. Soulful people. Oxbow is in Saugatuck, MI and is affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It has served as a retreat for visual artists since 1910. This past week, I took a drawing/painting class with New York artist, Jimmy Wright. He pushed me and challenged me in significant ways - allowing me to create some paintings that are precious to me.
Here are some views of Oxbow and my first painting. Well not exactly - I had actually spent a day painting a still life of peaches which Jimmy abhorred. 
The next day he said, "No more peaches." He suggested I get out into the land. So this is actually my first finished landscape painting using the techniques he taught us.

View from my easel ©Antonia Ruppert

Landscape painting, layer one
©Antonia Ruppert

Don't you love learning something new?

I'm Going on an Adventure

Desiree's Desire ©Antonia Ruppert
Oil on Canvas, 11x14

Do you know about Saugatuck? I am headed to Saugatuck Michigan for a week to paint.  No computer. Just lots of painting supplies, nature and Mr. Jimmy Wright - my painting instructor. I'm so excited. More to come about this adventure. I am learning there is one thing I must do to make this adventure happen.

Stay open to the beautiful. Enough said.