Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
This is a nice little book that encourages us to take in more of what is around us– the sights, sounds, smells, textures, tastes, shadows, atmospheres– to have more to bring to your art making practice.
The strong contrast, the interesting broken line mark making, and the diagonal design element bringing energy to the piece, all make it resonate.
This is what we’ve been eating over here recently.
This body is not me. I am not caught in this body. I am life without boundaries…
The series of images below gives you a good idea how non-objective work evolves.
I hope much of the copious artwork, photography, memes, poetry, links, and quotes on this post will resonate with you, inspire you, motivate you, educate you, amuse you, and reassure you!
Are you casting about, dissatisfied or yearning, flinging your gaze…
I love British artist Helen Wells, and I think you may too.
The idea of restricting the quantity of strokes is to curb detail, go for only the more abstract essence of the scene, and to avoid over working it.
The dressing here is fabulous, and completely makes the dish.
These shots span from August to January, and catch me noticing value rather than color.
“Prayer cannot change the unalterable Truth, nor can prayer alone give us an understanding of Truth…
These are really good, best the next day– definitely they are a perfect make ahead and bring tomorrow kind of thing.
This time I painted everything but the featured rock in cool colors in order to emphasize the awesome rock formation in warm colors.
These books are all terrific, with plenty of beautiful photography, with great recipes for easy to make food, and the last one is vegetarian (with lots of vegan).
