Four Abstract Charcoal Drawings
I recommend playing with charcoal: vine, compressed, and pencil, to get a range of marks and values. Maybe try it in your sketchbook?
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The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (Book Review with Quotes)
The book is comprehensive and downright brilliant, while humble and helpful in tone. I endorse it with a hearty five stars.
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
Making is the Message (Quote By Cecil Touchon)
Making is how I stay connected to something deeper than thinking.
Entwined (New Large Pastel Painting)
Do you see how everything is entwined, held together by a single line?
Painting Advice (While Looking at Work by Jane Davies)
Through this process, you’ll hone in on work that feels both authentic and good.
Creativity is Like a River (Quote by Louise Fletcher)
Sometimes creativity whispers and sometimes it shouts.
Sketching the 360º View (Grid Journaling Idea #5)
I found this process very satisfying, and will do more of it, prepping some pages in advance, so I can just grab my journal and go, as the sketching opportunity arises.
How Long Did it Take You? (Quote by Dosia McKay)
It’s never about the length of time but about the depth and meaning of the experience.
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.