Social Butterfly
- Acrylic on Canvas
- 48 x 36 in
- $5,400
- Ruby Annette Gonzalez
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Ruby Annette practices the three R’s – reduce, reuse, and recycle in her tool selection, which consists of recycled dowel wood sticks, repurposed wine corks, and toothpicks. These minimalist tools help her create consistent dots in her pointillism paintings. She dips the rounded top surface of these tools into acrylic paint and applies one dot to the canvas at a time until it is covered by thousands of dots.
Pointillism evokes a constant natural movement of disruption which fascinates her. It is necessary to constantly step away and view her work from afar to verify the accuracy of the optical color mixture applied to the appropriate areas of the canvas. By doing so, it unifies the individually applied dots and the portrait comes to life when seen from a distance.
It took Ruby Annette two decades of experimentation, practice, research, and a pandemic to find her unique voice and technique.
- Subject Matter: Narrative
- Collections: 2023 - Storytellers