Grid Journaling Ideas #1
As an artist, these types of exercises refill my tank and get me excited in fresh directions.
Polly Castor
Grace Notes (#43 with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
A Beautiful Blue Death (Book Review)
This book strikes just the right note for my taste in a good mystery read.
Eggplant Curry (Recipe)
It’s eggplant season and I’m delighted to add this flavorful, delicious, new way to cook it to my previous favorites …
Photos of Student Work (Adventures in Abstraction Maine 2022)
Everyone did a great job and there were plenty of great ideas to discuss and appreciate. Don’t you love it all?
My Workshop in Maine and What They Said About it (with Photos)
I loved being with these wonderful women and am so grateful for their marvelously receptive hearts!
Five Plein Air Paintings I did on Monhegan Island
Here are the results of my hiking and painting on Monhegan Island…
Monhegan Island: Hike Through Cathedral Forest to Squeaker Cove (Photos)
I loved being surrounded with compositions and textures, trees and rocks, moss and roots, surf and sky. See in this post the vignettes I relished on this fabulous hike.
Monhegan Island: Rain, Galleries, New Friends and Food
The food and sense of community on Monhegan are wonderful and overcame the downer of bad weather.
Monhegan Island: Lobster Cove (Photos)
We enjoyed ourselves at Lobster Cove, surrounded by compositional shapes and great texture.
Bits and Clips for September 2022
I hope you find something in all these photos, paintings, quotes, poems, memes, or links what inspires, interests, educates, helps, motivates, or enlightens you:
Monhegan Island: Hike to White Head and Burnt Head (Photos)
The photos in this post provide not only a record of our wonderful hike, but are reference photos and compositional ideas for future paintings.
Arriving on Monhegan Island (Photos)
Three artist friends and I journeyed together to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine to hike and plein air paint together.
Why Fish Don’t Exist (Book Review)
This is genre-bending reading, part memoir, part biography of David Star Jordan, part expose and social commentary, part existential philosophy by an atheist searching for the meaning of life in a world filled with entropy.