Peter Joyce (Featured Artist)
I like Peter Joyce’s artwork, even though it has less value contract than I prefer. He makes me want to use more white tones in my paintings, which I definitely don’t usually gravitate to.
Acrylic Paintings
Bracken (New Large Painting in Acrylic)
I’ve been looking closely at the brambled thickets and bracken here in the late fall.
Marc Grandbois (Featured Artist)
I share an appreciation with him for nature’s brambles and water reflections, and agree he does an exceptionally good job at both.
Collecting Good Thoughts (New Abstract Painting in Acrylic)
Take my Every Thought to Use is a line from a favorite hymn, and it is shown here with lots of thoughts and neural pathways, ready to jump forward and be of service.
The Next Frontier(New Acrylic Painting with Collage)
Painting is certainly a great way of pondering the unknown.
Mike Staniford (Featured Artist)
I love a good abstract landscape and Mike Staniford is doing a great job of it.
The Child Within (New Conceptualist Painting)
It was fun painting this with its whimsy, gregarious splashiness, organic shapes with pops of color, like joyously blowing bubbles while singing and skipping.
New Pages in my Artist Journal
Trying New Things (acrylic) by Polly Castor Here I am trying some new things in my artist journal. What do you think? Have you started one yet? Idle Thoughts (gouache) by Polly Castor Doubt (mixed media) by Polly Castor Loitering Again (acrylic) by Polly Castor
Three New Artist Journal Pages
I highly recommend keeping an artist journal, It as a wonderful processing tool, and is so very sanity producing.
Four New Paintings in my Artist Journals
I really enjoy the mediative process of creating these small works.
Desire is Prayer (New Large Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Acrylic)
I love the fact that desire is prayer itself. But how does one depict the abstract concept of desire?
Eight Commissioned Colorful Abstractions
I like thinking of these commissioned pieces making for a happy workplace.
Autumnal Equinox (New Large Painting in Acrylic)
This painting depicts the Autumnal Equinox, this time of year, when day and night are of equal length, and we pivot toward slowing down and recharging.
Fugue in E Major (New Conceptualist Painting in Acrylic)
I absolutely love fugues and this painting is the next in my sound series.
Four Other Paintings from 2020
Here are four paintings I did in 2020, that had not yet made it onto the blog: