Are You a Complex Puzzle Piece?

Complex Puzzle Piece

October 28, 2013 at 9:16 pm - by Ruth Collis

Are you a simple person or complex? Are you truly unique or do you try to fit in? Or blend in just to interact and relate with people? This is some thought provoking melancholy about dimension. Impasto is dimension of relief shape and height off the surface of a canvas. There are many sides and angles of the whole thought of dimension though.

Do you fit in? How about... do you fit someone? Do you fit anyone? How about over time? Are you so complex and too unique to where it makes it hard to relate to anyone? Have you longed for one person to match all your sides, instead of many people only relating with one small side you have? How about worse, where you finally meet someone that meets 90% of your sides, but then they rip your heart out & are undeserving of you... Were they really a fit for you after all? Or did they present an illusion... conforming to fit for a time, but lying to themselves and you while not presenting themselves as they truly are?

Crochet Paint?!

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Can Paint be Crochet'd?!
June 28, 2013 at 11:32 pm - by Ruth Collis





Tests revealed what I thought could happen, if I just let a line of paint dry…… ability to crochet it into a string of paint! This is my invention I am excited about that takes painting to a whole new level of dimension.

Jellyfish Squish!

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Jellyfish Squish Impression
June 28, 2013 at 11:24 pm - by Ruth Collis


New Logo for the Squishable Paint Technique:





It is made by squishing a special brush with thick paint to form a jellyfish shape & get intricate lines in about a second, that would take hours to paint line by line normally.

3D Cat Fur Technique

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Cat Fur in 3D

June 28, 2013 at 5:35 pm - by Ruth Collis

Does anyone see cat fur coming to life in my test bucket?

Controlling Crackle Shapes

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Controlling Crackle Shapes
June 25, 2013 at 9:46 pm - by Ruth Collis


Crackle Urchin Bowl

Braiding Paint

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Braided Paint!
May 23, 2013 at 10:47 pm - by Ruth Collis




I’d like to start this this blog of my testing in the laboratory out with a bang, and show what thick acrylic paint is capable of now. This is really paint… a 2-strand twist, and regular 3-strand braid. I’d like to take this one to the copyright office, one of those discoveries I am just really proud of, made Monday, April 15, 2013. Who ever heard of braiding paint?

Pastels & Oil Bars at Joshua Tree

Occasionally, I will switch up mediums, constantly keep up to date on the new technologies of art materials, or in this case here, have experimented in various mediums before the wonderful 3D thick painting adventures.

One of my favorite outside places of inspiration are the artistic rocks of Joshua Tree National Park that create a lot of wonder at how the rocks were formed, seeing all the textures, and finding cave-like entrances. There are real petroglyphs (rock engravings from prehistoric times) there too.