Spring Growth (New Abstract Mixed Media Collage)
I hope you too are growing this spring, like a watered garden unfolding and stretching in the sun!
I hope you too are growing this spring, like a watered garden unfolding and stretching in the sun!
Mostly here I am experimenting trying out my new inks together with collage.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we don’t have to do something remarkable and earn our immortality, we already come hardwired for it.
I’ve been thinking about the word Viridescence since being in Guadeloupe,…
New Year, New Opportunities (mixed media) by Polly Castor Here I tried my new walnut ink and I have to say, I love it. While I cogitate on new pastel directions, I’m having fun mixing media in new ways. This piece includes watercolor (including shimmery and graphite ones, with watercolor crayon), with opaque gouache, and … Read more
I love this liberating, experimental process. Sometimes it is nice not knowing where you are going and being open to discovery.
The dominion and power that is in the wingbeat, the freedom and soaring intensity of it, the high contrast of the scaling of heights from the lowly depths, despite all obstacles, encapsulates this piece.
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
This is what I’ve been painting recently in my artist’s journal.
I’ve been working a lot in my artist journal, which is a great place for me to process stuff.
The series of images below gives you a good idea how non-objective work evolves.
Check out the process photos of how this abstract conceptual painting evolved. It is fun too that it already sold.
Either trying out new materials or approaches, or just sketching moments to remember, here is what we painted in this gorgeous place.
I love the release of doodling in my artist journal, where the outcome is a surprise and the path contemplative.
Here the Bible story from the 21st chapter of John is depicted as a reminder to apply this allegory in our own lives.