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- OCT. 2025: A STORM OF HORSES at the MAZZA MUSEUM
Much of my artwork from A STORM OF HORSES, my biography of French artist Rosa Bonheur is on... - SEPT. 2025: A New Venture…
So….I have started a Substack publication titled FAIRY TALES: Mirrors of Truth, which will ma... - THE MIRROR OF TRUTH
JULY 15, 2025 I'm currently crafting query letters to agents for my first YA fantasy, THE MI...
Drawing Horses
In DRAWING HORSES, children’s book illustrator Ruth Sanderson demonstrates her method of drawing realistic horses in 25 step-by-step lessons, with commentary and tips in each lesson, as well as details of her pencil techniques. This 80-page book…
Nancy Drew Coloring Book
I worked on the NANCY DREW series for a number of years in the early 1980’s, and this book contains a selection of 40 sketches and finished illustrations for many of the covers and interiors. It is…
Heidi
Heidi contains 24 scenes from the full color illustrated children’s book I created in 1984, converted to both light and darker grayscale for a total of 48 pictures to color. Here are a few sample images:
Nursery Rhymes
Color your own pictures of these 36 delightful nursery rhymes. With the rhymes included! I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the…
Christmas Magic
Watch a Flip Through of All the pages on YouTube. Download this free Santa picture and color along with Ruth in the video below!
Fantasy Faces
These 24 images are grayscaled from my many paintings. There is a bonus section at the back of the book with 6 practice portraits and color combinations for various skin colors. The book includes a lighter and…
Fairies
Bring these fey creatures to life with your own color! These 24 grayscaled images were created from my many paintings of fairies. The print version of the coloring book contains both a lighter and darker version, as…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #1: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Volume I of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, with 24 unique pictures to color. I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the tones help…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #2: Cinderella
Volume II of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, with 24 unique pictures to color. I carefully converted the color images to a light grayscale, so you can color right over the tones with colored pencils, and the tones help…
Beautiful Fairy Tales #3: Goldilocks
Volume III of BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALES, combines 24 unique pictures to color from the pencil drawings that I created as underdrawings for the paintings, and there is also a bonus section of 12 images that are the…