Two Drawings from our Garden (Sketchbook Ideas #23)
I’ll be doing more of this. Maybe you want to give it a try too.
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Take Two Artists with Art and Creativity Quotes
Enjoy all this beauty, creativity, and heart shared in this post, focusing on fiber, mixed media, nature, and abstraction.
Three Large Mixed Media Studies in the Fall Landscape
I got into putting down gooey gouache and oil pastel and then going over it with soft pastels which stuck into it so nicely.
Once in a Blue Moon (New Mixed Media Abstract Landscape)
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
First Pages Done in my New Italian Leather Artist Journal
These journals are a trial zone and an incubator for what I want to incorporate in my larger work.
Back from Three Weeks Painting in Tuscany!
This was a huge privilege! I’m so grateful to have been invited and for the kindness and generosity of our hosts.
Experimental Mixed Media Landscape Paintings
Here are the smaller landscapes I’ve done this fall of experimental methods and media.
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
Fording the Stream (New Abstract Mixed Media Painting)
This was painted from a memory of a tree fallen over a rushing stream with shapes on the trunk where branches had been removed… I was struck with the abstraction of it at the time.
Grace for Today (New Abstract Mixed Media Painting)
Done in many layered mixed media on wood panel, it is a bit of a departure for me.
First Plein Air Landscape Paintings of the Year
The motive was seeing, as well as the experience of translating that to paper without even trying at all for it be literal.
Two New Small Collages
Lately I’ve been experimenting printing collage papers, and these two small acrylic collages utilize some of them.
Wade in the Water (New Large Painting by Polly Castor)
This painting depicts the negro spiritual Wade in the Water, and was painted beside the water while this music was being sung–live¡– in the background.
Two New Large Abstract Paintings in Black and White
It was time to ponder in monochromatic layering.