Archive for October, 2015

  • Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale

    By on October 19, 2015

    I really enjoyed this book and give it a provisional five stars. It is well written and engaging, about...

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    Polly Castor
  • Our Fabulous Church Flowers Today

    By on October 18, 2015

    My husband cut down our purple asters and brought them in to avoid being frozen, and we took them...

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    Polly Castor
  • Garden Harvest Before First Freeze

    By on October 17, 2015

    It is going to freeze tonight for the first time this fall so we have brought in most of...

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    Polly Castor
  • Notes from Richard McKinley’s Pastel Workshop

    By on October 16, 2015

    You can see here the notes I took for the class, preserved both for my reference and yours.

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    Polly Castor
  • New Plein Air Pastel Landscape: Florence Griswold View

    By on October 15, 2015

    I enjoyed painting this with my pastel class last week at the Florence Griswold Museum. The weather was glorious...

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    Polly Castor
  • Early Fall Reflections

    By on October 14, 2015

    These early fall reflections that I saw around Great Hollow Lake this morning were stunning and pristine ...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Dahveed (Series)

    By on October 13, 2015

    If you are interested in detailed, fictional accounts of old testament characters, this author is one you should not...

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    Polly Castor
  • Portraits of Plein Air Artists at Work

    By on October 12, 2015

    I enjoyed the people in my plein air painting class. Richard McKinley (above) is an accomplished and well known...

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    Polly Castor
  • Salmon Colored Sunset

    By on October 11, 2015

    What I liked about this sunset was the color was bizarrely unusual, and it was almost like my camera...

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    Polly Castor
  • In the Presence of Swans

    By on October 10, 2015

    I had never seen so many swans in one place before, and I wished for my zoom lens, which...

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    Polly Castor
  • Thumbnails, Notans, and Field Sketches

    By on October 9, 2015

    In the class I've been taking with Richard McKinley, he discussed in detail a process he uses to formulate...

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    Polly Castor
  • Wee Faerie Village

    By on October 8, 2015

    Our Pastel class painted at the Florence Griswold Museum today and their current outdoors exhibit is the "Wee Faerie...

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    Polly Castor

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