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Quiet studies in colored pencil & oil.
Ruth Johnson works mainly in colored pencil — realistic, gentle studies of flowers, hummingbirds, and everyday still life — with newer forays into oil portraits and looser palette-knife landscapes.
Featured works
Recent from the studio
Ruby Throat & Trumpet Vine
Colored pencil
Pink Peony Study
Colored pencil
Blue Cup, Lemon, Lavender
Colored pencil
Fields at Golden Hour
Oil, palette knife
The studio
"I like the slowness of colored pencil — the way each petal has to be earned, one soft layer at a time."
Ruth Johnson
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