All Prints 30% off -next two days only

Purchase prints from my website at www.cydrust.com through Saturday December 10th, and receive 30% off. The prices have already been marked down to show the discount. They will go back up at midnight on Saturday, so if there is one you have been wanting, now is the time.

Featured Artist: Art On Mountain Gallery

 Featured Artist

November 2 to 28, 2011

Art On Mountain Gallery

102 West Mountain Ave

Ft. Collins Colorado

The main view from inside the front doors of the gallery.  

It has been the most fun this month getting to show off four of my "Ladies" all at the same time. As well as a new abstract painting just to add a "twist".

I also have a few of my Award Winning Bronze Sculptures on exhibit until the 28th. 

I will be making another appearance on:

 Saturday November 26th:

 from 11AM - 3PM. 

If you are in the area. Please stop in and say hello.

Home is... not just a page header

Home no. D311
30" x 15"
Acrylic on
Rice Paper / Canvas Panel

Home...
Home is in your eyes.
Home is in your arms.
Home is in your thoughts.
Home is just around the bend.

Home is...a Work In Progress until I manage to stop myself...either on the painting or the sad prose or both. hehe.

Home is...

On display 
through November 28th, 2011
at Art On Mountain Gallery
Fort Collins, Colorado
Cyd Rust, Featured Artist

The Waiting is over... Introducing First Morning

First Morning no. D314
30" x 15"
Acrylic on
Rice Paper/Canvas on Masonite

First Morning is the second half of my dyptic with Waiting.
If you hold them up side by side, the curtains and flooring line up.

My goal was to have Waiting be the pregnant woman waiting for the baby to come, or someone to come get her to take her to the hospital. Because in my mind that is more towards evening, Waiting is a little darker and mistier.

Now, in First Morning, the baby is born and the mother is introducing it to the light for the very first time. I tried to achieve almost an opalescent look to her gown in this one, and a glow to the baby's face as the light from the window hits it.

 First Morning is a brief second in a life. A gentle, kind loving moment we get to peek at

Flamboyant Flower for Empty Bowls

Flamboyant Flower has been donated to the Larimer County Foodbank for their Empty Bowls Fundraiser. This amazing event offers the ticket purchasers, soups donated by local restaurants, a one of a kind bowl made by local artists and students, a chance to bid on silent auction items, and music provided throughout the event.
According to the foodbank, the price of one ticket can feed 100 families.

Empty Bowls Fundraising Event

Date: November 3, 2011

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: Embassy Suites, Loveland

Cost: $25

Boots, Chaps & Cowboy Hats

Carousel Horse Study
Acrylic & Metallics
on Ampersand Aquaboard

Carousel Horse Study 

has been donated to my favorite local charity, Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Riding Center for their biggest fundraising event of 2011

The 11th Annual Hearts & Horses Gala

Boots, Chaps & Cowboy Hats

Dinner & Dancing 

Live & Silent Auctions

Friday October 7, 2011

6:15 PM

Ellis Ranch, Loveland, Colorado

For information and tickets

call 970-663-4200

Waiting

Waiting no. D312
30" x 15"
Acrylic on
Rice Paper/Canvas on Masonite

Once again, completely out of the blue, I was inspired to create another piece of art based on life and motherhood. 

As this lovely lady emerged from the canvas, I not only see her waiting for the little one to make an appearance. But I can also see her standing by the window, perhaps waiting to be taken to the hospital.

My goal was to capture the quiet gentleness of this last silent moment. That final quiet communication before the baby makes it's entrance into the light.