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There is One Dance You’ll Do Alone (New Textural Abstract Painting in Pastel)
This is a highly textural pastel. It is 18″x24″ and the title is lifted from the Jackson Browne...
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Ain’t Burned All the Bright (Book Review)
This book is a powerful rendition of what it felt like to be black in America during the pandemic...
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Life is a Collage (New Poem by Polly Castor with Artwork)
Your scraps define you, so take care to use only the shards you like, but more it is how...
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Three New Artist Journal Pages
I highly recommend keeping an artist journal, It as a wonderful processing tool, and is so very sanity...
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Reflective Drawing (Sketchbook Ideas #4)
The exercise celebrates balance as closely as you can achieve it.
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Wade Zahares (Featured Artist)
I love Wade Zahares’ work– the vibrant colors he uses, the childlike innocence of them, and the whimsy and...
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Where Did the Money Go? (New Textured Abstract Painting in Pastel)
Does it seem to you like money seems to evaporate like bubbles rising and floating away?
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Textured Acrylic Grounds for Pastel (Examples and Explanation)
I teach my pastel workshop students to paint in their texture, but they always want techie shortcuts, and for...
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Deeps of Peace Show by Brian Rutenburg in NYC (Photos)
I've long been a fan of this painter of abstract landscapes and was thrilled to see his work in...
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Four New Paintings in my Artist Journals
I really enjoy the mediative process of creating these small works.
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Petals Overhead and Underfoot (New Landscape Painting in Oil and Pastel)
This painting is my first to combine both pastel and oil, but it will not be my last!
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Two New Non-Objective Paintings in Pastel
Trying alcohol washes in abstract work to get a contrast of edges, was effective and fun in creating these...
