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About CatRutgers4Art

Original art by Catherine Rutgers, with musings on the media and the methods. Founded in 2010. “I believe in magic moments. Am not afraid to be sentimental, and adore a tweaked cliché. Two of my favorite pastimes are watching paint dry and observing green tendrils unfold.”

Fun with Filters!

Posted on March 28, 2015 by CatRutgers4Art

Not the kind you use in a fish tank, which are horribly smelly but keep your scaly pets afloat, or the ones you pop into the pitcher to help purify your tap water, but the kind that Adobe’s Photoshop supplies … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of An Illustration: Exquisite Corpse

Posted on March 19, 2015 by CatRutgers4Art

Oh, those macabre surrealists! They just loved to play around with the more than slightly creepy, and yet be maddeningly onto something useful and deep. “Cadavre exquis” is the collective technique in which a text or image is shared in … Continue reading →

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Yours Truly!

Posted on September 25, 2014 by CatRutgers4Art

Video number five. Made for music. There are no soundtracks except the one you choose. You are cordially invited to experience “Yours Truly” and four other experiments in motion at Vimeo, http://vimeo.com/CatherineRutgers Images by Catherine Rutgers © 2014

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The Epic Proportions of “Aliens Glyph”

Posted on July 22, 2014 by CatRutgers4Art

On Sunday evening, it began. Within 24 hours, I made more than three-hundred images, selected forty-seven of them, completed a new video-for-music, and uploaded it at Vimeo. Wait. Is that even possible? Check the files. Yup. It’s true. And I’m … Continue reading →

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The Colors of June

Posted on July 14, 2014 by CatRutgers4Art

2013 was the Season of Extreme Gardening. I cut down two diseased and weary bushes, sawing and yanking their roots from the dirt, making space for ferns, lemon thyme, the red-toned lilies. I pitchforked a sketchy patch of weeds in … Continue reading →

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