Experimental Mixed Media Landscape Paintings
Here are the smaller landscapes I’ve done this fall of experimental methods and media.
Abstract Landscapes
Four Plein Air Paintings in Pastel from Monhegan 2024
I loved painting outside on Monhegan with friends.
Secret Garden (New Large Oil Painting)
This painting is about capturing that feeling of escaping into the reverie of a Secret Garden.
Giverny (New Large Abstract Landscape in OIl)
I am pretty pleased with it, since after all that work, it did come out as I envisioned.
Under the Waterfall (New Large Oil Painting)
It is a place at once with thundering energy and spontaneous effervescence, but also of prisms and refraction. It is a place that blots out all other white noise, leaving a soul cleansed, refreshed and calm.
Flow Finds a Way (New Painting in Pastel)
Is the composition or color combo too unusual, or do you think that is fun?
Seaside Outcropping (New Pastel Painting by Polly Castor)
Gosh it feels good to paint again after all that time refurbishing my artist website!
Two New Small Landscape Paintings
Happy Headlands (watercolor) by Polly Castor Here are two, small, recent landscapes. The one above, Happy Headlands was done in the new watercolors I got for my birthday, on scrumptious 300# handmade paper made by Two Rivers. I would love to visit them when we are in England, but they are in the wrong direction, … Read more
Painting as Poetry (Quote by Lewis Nobel)
The painting is about the energy you are communicating rather than a picture of the things that create the energy.
Sam Boughton (Featured Artist)
Sam Boughton is an abstract landscape painter whose spare work I admire. Her efficient, decisive mark making is luscious, and how she beautifully simplifies the landscape is wonderful.
Snorkeling in Guadaloupe (New Large Pastel Painting)
Have you snorkeled and studied what was deep below you in the water? It is fascinating, with the undulating plants, the shafts of light, the deep shadows and the darting schools of bright fish.