Two Recent Monoprint Collages in my Artist Journals
I like these, their color, sense of movement and repetition of design elements.
This thoughtful process is meditative, deeply calming, and gratifying.
Once in a Blue Moon (mixed media) by Polly Castor This new abstract landscape is highly textural and is titled Once in a Blue Moon, for it is a rare sight. The painting is 20″x20″ and done on an archival wood panel in mixed media. See the entire work above and close up details below. … Read more
When you walk in, my large monoprint collage is centered on the back wall, three rooms away, and you can see it from the front door, the minute you walk in, so that was fun.
She paints large, and I love her gestural strokes, as well as her bold use of color.
During our plein air retreat I did six paintings in three full days, two of flowers, two of rocks, and two of water.
I like how Arden Bendler Browning’s work straddles the line between abstraction and landscape painting.
Making is how I stay connected to something deeper than thinking.
Do you see how everything is entwined, held together by a single line?
I’m so delighted to have my work selected to be in this lovely show at the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut.
Jean Gumpper’s printmaking is soothing and comforting, while honoring those overlooked slices of life we would all do well to be more mindful of.
I wanted to paint a feeling that was based on the happy juggle of disparate parts.
This visceral painting is my first abstract response to those sage old souls I saw in Tuscany.
These journals are a trial zone and an incubator for what I want to incorporate in my larger work.