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Imprints
IMPRINTS © Cyd Rust 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Metallic Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. IMPRINTS was a long time in the making. It developed gradually, Layer upon Layer. I believe this painting, more than any other to date has helped me find my true style. I...
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Sunset’s Embrace & Evening Inferno
SUNSET'S EMBRACE © Cyd Rust 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Metallic Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. Spectactular Sunrises and Sunsets can come from the most amazing places. Much like how a rainbow appears after a heavy rain. Late 2013 was no exception. And it...
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Where Fairies Play
WHERE FAIRIES PLAY © Cyd Rust 30″ x 40″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Metallic Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. I began WHERE FAIRIES PLAY at the same time as FAIRY WHISPERS. I wanted to try moving the series to a larger format to see what would happen. Would the finger...
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Fairy Whispers
FAIRY WHISPERS © Cyd Rust 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Metallic Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. When I painted FAIRY DREAMS I had so much fun, and it was so spontaneous I was overwhelmed. That painting was the first of many that have taken my breath away with...
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Fairy Dreams
FAIRY DREAMS © Cyd Rust 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Metallic Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas. One day last winter, I was sitting at the table playing with a smaller gallery wrapped canvas and some of my new Golden paints. I just started painting,...
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You Are Loved
You Are Loved. Three simple words, and yet I would venture to guess most of us forget this quite often. You Are Loved My friend Chris Brogan mentioned them in his newsletter this morning. I wrote back to Chris and told him after everything I had been through in 2015,...
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3 Simple Ways Artists Can “Go Green”
I'm turning green. No, I'm not sick. No I'm not covered with green paint. Nor have I turned into a frog. I have implemented changes to my painting practices that are more environmentally friendly. I am sharing these as they could easily be implemented by anyone. 3...
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Shine
SHINE © Cyd Rust 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″ Acrylic and Interference Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Canvas Shine began as most of my Intuitive paintings, with multiple layers and colors of acrylic paint marks. But before long I realized it was starting to somewhat resemble a...
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Mesmerize
The weather has finally gone from fall to winter. It started snowing yesterday, and hasn't let up. Abnormally cold temperatures have moved in right along with the beautiful fluffy white mountain flakes. We are in what the forecasters are calling an "arctic holding...
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New LIfe
Today is my birthday and I am celebrating! I am NOT getting older! I have gotten wiser. And I am having way more fun. I am enjoying quiet contemplations. Soul transforming meditations... and learning to practise yoga! I am learning to dance again; To finger paint; To...
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