Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
My artist journals are where I try out either new ideas, like new compositional ideas, new color combinations, new materials, new ways to mix media, new mark making combinations, new layering methods, new concepts…
Let’s familiarize ourselves with the ideal in order to manifest it.
I hope this post and all these photos and links give you some great ideas of what to fix for you and yours.
I am so grateful for recent progress in caring for our home! In April, we were able to have the back of our house (and the detached garage) painted. You can see photos of the other sides being done in past years here and here. We have been blessed with wonderful and reasonable painters, and … Read more
It was time to ponder in monochromatic layering.
Here are some quotes about beauty from this meditation on the topic.
I hope you find something here that inspires, educates, motivates, reassures, or interests you:
This show has very little pure abstraction in it, but I included the pieces I liked best for you to see in this post.
To continue on our sketchbook series, let’s look at doing contour drawings. Above you can see an example of a blind contour drawing, where it is against the rules to look at your paper or lift your pencil. You keep your eyes fully on the object you are drawing– here it was leaves from our … Read more
We are proud her hard work and of the way she has comported herself. We are also delighted her excellence has been so tangibly recognized!
How exalting it is to meet the joy of life with appreciation and humble thankfulness.
A reporter on the war in Afghanistan goes undercover in 2016 to accompany his Afghan friend and interpreter on his journey out as a refugee.
Suppose yourself looking through blue glass at a white horse…
