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Golden Dreams

GOLDEN DREAMS is a 224 page full color retrospective of the career of illustrator Ruth Sanderson. Known for her lavishly illustrated fairy tale picture books, including THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, CINDERELLA, and THE SNOW PRINCESS, this volume chronicles her beginnings as a Nancy Drew illustrator in the late 70’s, her work on Golden Books, fairy tales, book covers, horse stories, collector’s plates, fantasy art, and many personal paintings never before published. There is a preview at the end of the book of her award-winning scratchboard illustrations for THE GOLDEN KEY, a Victorian fairy tale by George MacDonald, scheduled for a 2016 release from Eerdmans Publishing.

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Cinderella Coloring Book

CINDERELLA, Volume II of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES in the Grayscale Adult Coloring Book series, has just been listed on AMAZON. ORDER HERE

Here are some of the images, which I have carefully converted to a light grayscale from the artwork in my picture book for children. (Look for it in the BOOKS tab) Colored pencils work nicely over grayscale, and the tones guide your coloring and will give the picture depth and realism.

Happy Coloring!

Look under SHOPS in the top navigation bar for the link to my ETSY store, where you can purchase high resolution PDFs if you prefer to print on your own watercolor paper or other paper of choice.

Twelve Dancing Princesses Coloring Book

The Coloring Book world now includes books that are not line art, but images in shades of grey which are then colored over so the values still show through, giving the pictures depth and realism. The old masters did this with oil paintings in "Grisaille," or tones of grey, and then glazed color over the tones to create pictures with a strong sense of a "light and shade" pattern. I decided to try my hand at producing a coloring book in grey tones, or Grayscale, the term commonly used now. The Twelve Dancing Princesses seemed a perfect choice, as there is so much detail in the pictures.

I spent close to a month adjusting the images and getting proofs printed. The tones can't be as dark as the original paintings, especially the flesh tones. Here are some images from the book. THis is available on Amazon as a print book, and also on my ETSY shop as PDF downloads people can print on their paper of choice, as many times as they want.

ORDER THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES FROM AMAZON HERE

 

ORDER THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES FROM ETSY HERE

 

The World of Fairies Adult Coloring Book

My first Coloring Book For Adults, THE WORLD OF FAIRIES is available on AMAZON, and as a PDF download here in SHOPS if you prefer to custom print on your choice of  paper.
ORDER The World of Fairies from Amazon HERE
ORDER A Downloadable PDF HERE
Here is a free page for you to download, and a colored pencil video tutorial link below.




Click Here for CORGI FAIRY STEED VIDEO TUTORIAL
 

And here is a selection of the 24 images from the book. I created 8 new images for this edition. There is a bonus section at the end with 12 pictures set up in greeting card format.





 

 

The World of Fairies Amazon Edition

JUST LISTED!

You can now find my Fairy coloring book on Amazon — ready to ship for Christmas!

ORDER The World of Fairies HERE

Here is a free page for you to download. I will be posting a video demoing how I used colored pencils on this on UTUBE in a few days and will link it here and on my Facebook page, RuthSandersonART.

 

And here is a selection of the 24 images from the book. I created 8 new images for this edition. There is a bonus section at the end with 12 pictures set up in greeting card format.

 

 

DECEMBER EVENTS

DECEMBER EVENT SPECIAL
WORLD OF FAIRIES COLORING BOOK

FREE with $30 purchase at any event
(Just mention you saw this -no need to print it to receive your book)



DECEMBER EVENTS:
COTTAGE STREET OPEN STUDIOS
Friday, December 2nd noon-5

Saturday December 3rd  10-5

Sunday December 4th  noon-5

One Cottage Street Easthampton, MA

I will be selling books and prints and more

in STUDIO 307
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SCRATCHBOARD ORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION
THE MANHAN CAFE
Reception: Sunday, DEC 4th  10-noon
Seventeen of my scratchboard illustrations are on display and for sale.

There will also be a selection of books and prints for sale.

Join me for some great coffee and pastry!

The Cafe also makes excellent breakfast and lunch sandwiches.
88 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA

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GOLDEN KEY BOOK LAUNCH PARTY!!
Saturday, December 10th from 3 -4:30 pm

WHITE SQUARE BOOKS
86 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA

My long-awaited book deserves a party! Join me at WHITE SQUARE BOOKS to celebrate the release of my 40-year long dream project: illustrating my favorite Victorian fairy tale.

You can pre-order THE GOLDEN KEY at my other events and the books will be ready for you at the bookstore for pick up on the 10th, or at your convenience.

Golden dreams,
Ruth Sanderson

THE GOLDEN KEY Pre-order special!

I am offering a FREE custom-designed signed bookplate for anyone who pre-orders my new book THE GOLDEN KEY from the Eerdmans website before December 1st, 2016. It will be shipped in early December.

ORDER THE GOLDEN KEY

Send me a self-addressed stamped regular-sized envelope and an personalization requests and I’ll send you a free signed bookplate. It looks beautiful against the golden yellow endpapers.

Send your request to:

Ruth Sanderson

PO Box 285

Easthampton, MA 01027

NOTES and Sneak Preview:

I started and ended the book wordlessly, with the faires, the guardians of the Key. In the first picture, below, the fairy is sitting with the Key on the tree stump, watching Mossy and his Great-aunt. She is assessing whether he will be the one they want to next find the key.

   In the above illustration, the fairy has decided to choose Mossy, and she flies off to hide the key at the base of the rainbow in Fairyland.

Tangle, the girl who joins Mossy on his quest, has a different experience with the fairies, and a more difficult path than Mossy.

The book ends wordlessly, with the fairy hiding the Golden Key,looking out to the reader as if to say, “Will you be next?”

There are 47 illustrations in the book, in scratchboard, my new favorite medium.

Keep dreaming!

Ruth