This is an original painting by Ruth Housley I did from taking a trip on the Texas State Railroad back in 1999 with my daughter Krista.  We took a trip on this train from Palestine to Rusk, Texas and rode a bus from Dallas to Palestine and then we got back on buses after we got to Rusk to go to Tyler to see the roses and nice homes.

Was a fun trip the two of us and had a picnic lunch in Rusk before we went to see the roses in Tyler. If you want to see more about my trip that my daughter and I took read my email newsletter and if you are not signed up then do so by clicking to do it.

I had some photos of wolves and decided to do a simple painting by Ruth Housley with a wolf lying on a ledge resting.  I had another painting I was working on but did not get it finished for this year.

This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley that I did from some of the photos I took when we were on our trip to the Texas Hill Country from October 31 thru November 5th 2011.  We had lots of fun and took some trails to see more scenery.  We visited Garner State Park, Lost Maples State Park as well as near Fredericksburg the Enchanted Rock State Park. 

This painting is from some of the photos I took at Lost Maples State Park and it had a trail that went one way and come back another way.

Very interesting and enjoyed it being out in nature.

Enjoy.

My husband and I took a trip to the hill country in Texas the first week of November.  We left the 31st of October and returned on the 4th of November.  We stayed in Kerrville, Texas.

We had a fun trip and drove most of the day on Monday and then on Tuesday we went to Garner State Park.  We spent part of the day there walking around and taking photos of the scenery.  This is a Texas State Park and it is so busy from Memorial Day through Labor Day.  It is the bigger one of the two and the other one we saw was Lost Maples State Park. 

We went on the next day to Lost Maples State Park and took trails which was fun for me since I am a nature person.  Took lots of photos and enjoyed this very much.  We had lunch at  the park and then seen more scenery and then drove back to where we stayed.

The next day we drove to Fredericksburg, where my husband went to the Nimitz National Museum of the Pacific War.  I went to Whistle Pik Art Gallery and then on the the Fredericksburg Art Gallery and viewed lots of art.  We had lunch in Fredericksburg and then drove to Enchanted Rock State Park and we did not plan on going to it but as we passed by I told my husband I wanted to see it.  We did go to the State Park and I took a trail which was interesting and we saw a few people that were almost to the top of the dome which is Enchanted Rock.  Took lots of photos and then drove back to Kerrville.

The next day we drove home to Denton, after a nice trip to the Texas Hill Country

This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley on a 16x20 linen canvas.  This is in Arizona with the red rock of the mountain, and a stream, rocks, trees and shrubs.  I used three or four greens in this painting with blues, sienna as well as orange and umber.

Took a week off from painting and went to the Texas Hill Country with my husband and seen lots of beautiful hill country.  We visited the Garner State Park, as well as Lost Maples State Park and Fredericksburg.  While we were in Fredericksburg I went to a couple galleries while my husband went to the Nemitz Museum (Pacific War).  After we left Fredericksburg we went to Enchanted Rock State Park.

We had a nice time on our trip and took lots of photos.

This is a Rose that I had when we lived in Flower Mound, Texas by Ruth Housley.  It was a Jackson Perkins Hybrid Tea rose and I liked it a lot and took several photos of it and finally decided to paint it.   It is a very pretty rose and I don't remember the name of it.  The color of the petals is interesting and the overall rose is quite different.

This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley of a Dahlia Flower on a portrait canvas. 

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Columbia.  There are at least 36 species of Dahlia, some like D. imperialis up to 10 metres tall.  Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants.  The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the Dahlia for food, ceremonies, as well as decorative purposes, and  the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes. 

 The Dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl.  In German the Dahlia was known during  most of the 19th century as Georgia, being named after the naturalist Johann Gottlieb Gerogi of St. Petersbury, Russia.

This is a painting I did from the Yarnell School of Fine Art out of one of their books.  It is a landscape with mountains, birds, trees, stream, rocks and flowers.  This is called summer dreams where you can go and sit on a rock and dream or read a book, go fishing, or have a picnic. I enjoy doing mountains with streams as well as other subject matter in the painting. I was inspired to do this because it reminds me of a place that I have been before. 

This is an original oil painting on portrait canvas of the Clematis Flower.

Clematis is a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.  Their garden hybrids have been popular among gardeners beginning with Clematis x jackmanii, a garden standby since 1862; more hybrid cultivars are being produced constantly.  They are mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.  Most species are known as clematis in English, while some are also known as traveller's joy a name invented for the sole British native, C. vitalba by the herbaslist John Gerard,  virgin's bower for C.  viticella, old man's beard, applied to several with prominent seedheads, leather flower or vase vine for the North American Clematis viorna.

The genus is composed of mostly vigorous, woody, climbing vines/lianas.  The woody stems are quite fragile until several years old.  Leaves are opposite and divided into leaflets and leafstalks that twist and curl around supporting structures to anchor the plant as it climbs.  Some species are shrubby, while others like C. recta, are herbaceous perennial plants.  The  cool temperate species are deciduous, but many of the warmer climate species are evergreen.  They grow best when their roots are shaded but their tops are in  full sun.

They are generally acid-intolerant calciphytes that grow on limestone and other basic soils.  Clematis species are mainly found throughtout the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, rarely in the tropics. Clematis leaves are food for the caterpillars of some  Lepidoptera species,  including the Willow Beauty.

This is a copy of a Yarnell School of Fine Art painting named Country Road by Ruth Housley.  It has a road and goes down hill and back up again.  It has a fence, flowers, trees and a ditch on the right side of the road.  It has a couple more ditches but I chose to leave them out  and put grass in place of the ditches.  This scene is in Kansas.