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Christmas Sale- All Products are 25%

Glad to let you know we are having a Holiday Sale on all Cards, Prints, Books, and Original Artwork. Be sure to visit our site at...

The Stained Glass Archives

This is Lydia here, daughter of Tom! Just an update, I was able to comb through some boxes of old photos and stained glass patterns to...

Holiday Sale!

This sale is finally over but thank you so much for the amazing support. Our inventory is about cleared out, and remaining prints will be...

ZOOM School Programs are Officially Available!

It's official, as a team my daughter and I have found a great way to offer programs virtually to schools throughout Michigan. Please...

What an Honor! Thank you for the Wonderful Article on our Online Programs for Kids!

We’d like to thank Amy Hubbell of the Leelanau Enterprise for her wonderful article about our fledgling venture, sharing online drawing...

The Online Programs are a Hit!

Thank You! to TV-9&10 Pulse writer, Brighid Driscoll, for sharing our work in her article, below. She’s a delight to talk with and we’re...

Free Online Workshops!

If you haven't seen already, go and check our Free Art Programs for kids! You can view them on our site, under the workshops tab, or...

Dragons! How about an Alphabet Book?

Getting all these good pictures back into print with the help of my daughter! I'm thinking about creating a Dragon Alphabet Book! Is this...

Painting Progress for "Gorgazilla Thrills Manilla"

This piece called "Gorgazilla" evolved from a tonal pencil drawing, then I added the thin acrylic washes to explore the color...

The Art Gallery, Key West 1971

I made this pen and ink drawing of an art gallery in Key West back in 1971. I sold the original to a friend in Grand Rapids, but I got...

Stained Glass Patterns from Way Back!

I started up a Stained Glass shop in 1976 in Suttons Bay, Michigan. I had never done anything like that before, but I knew I wanted to...

Shop Woodruff Designs: Design Requests?

We have such a variety of designs at ShopWoodruffDesigns.Com. If you'd like a specific piece of art on clothing please comment below!...

The Tree House

In 1970 when I lived in Key West Florida I worked on Sailboats, Fishing boats, and the Cable Schooner "Western Union International,"...

Illustration Workshops

Here are some examples of my instructional drawings created for students in my school workshops! I use a document camera, with a large...

Nature Journaling

For over twenty years I have been a Resident Artist in an Environmental School. I teach nature journaling, field sketching, phenology,...

Plein Air Painting with Tom Woodruff

For Northport Arts Association’s annual Plein Air Paint-Out, I chose a paint a scene in the shade at Northport Creek. The water was high...

Drawing Classes on a Yacht!

Pardon the drone of the engine, but I hope you enjoy the way this drawing project came together with the crew of the Zanimac! Video by...

Tip-Toe Through the Night

This piece is called,”Tip-Toe Through the Night.” It was inspired by my cat ‘Wogs’, the Night Stalker. I explored the traditional...

"Blingo Is My Name Yo"

One day I was waiting for my family at the mall, sketching people as they passed by. Sometimes my sketches look like people. More often,...

"Cora-A"

This is a drawing of the “Cora A,” a ship that once sailed the Great Lakes. I sketched first in pen & ink, then added watercolor. I...

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