watercolor – Page 2 – Polly Castor

A Poem About Motherhood by Sharon Olds
By Polly Castor on May 11, 2014
I can't remember the instant I gave my life to them...
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New Abstract Watercolors in Artist’s Journal
By Polly Castor on April 4, 2014
Here are some recent pages in my artist’s journal, all done in watercolor.
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A Last Painting of my Mom’s
By Polly Castor on March 7, 2014
And in that box was the abstract, my last painting from my Mom...
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Some Recent Pages in my Artist’s Journal
By Polly Castor on November 16, 2013
The above is a collage done out of the condolence cards that were sent regarding my mother’s passing,...
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My Mom’s Abstract Watercolors
By Polly Castor on October 14, 2013
Recently, I’ve taken the photos below of the abstract watercolor paintings by my mother that I own, and I...
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Prayer Paintings and Condolences
By Polly Castor on August 20, 2013
I have heard from so many of you with beautiful and heartfelt condolences, and I wanted to take this...
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Sailing with Paul (plus some art)
By Polly Castor on August 1, 2013
I was glad for the opportunity to go sailing on a lovely day with my friend Paul, together...
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Recent Watercolors in my Artist’s Journal
By Polly Castor on March 6, 2013
Here are the most recent watercolors that I’ve done in my artist’s journal...
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My Watercolor of Winter Harbor
By Polly Castor on September 7, 2012
Here is the watercolor I did from the Schoodic Peninsula looking out over Winter Harbor. What a wonderful afternoon...
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Watercolors Done at the Quarry
By Polly Castor on July 24, 2012
One of the things I promised my 15 year old this summer is to take time each day for...
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Two New Abstract Watercolors
By Polly Castor on July 12, 2012
Here are my two new abstract watercolors...
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Book Review: Being Bold with Watercolor
By Polly Castor on March 17, 2012
You blog readers have probably figured out that I like bright colors, which is why I enjoyed this book...
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Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words: warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

I never before found computers this beautiful….

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. Your talent is incredible!!!

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

Polly Castor

Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art

Posts tagged with ‘watercolor’

A Poem About Motherhood by Sharon Olds

New Abstract Watercolors in Artist’s Journal

A Last Painting of my Mom’s

Some Recent Pages in my Artist’s Journal

My Mom’s Abstract Watercolors

Prayer Paintings and Condolences

Sailing with Paul (plus some art)

Recent Watercolors in my Artist’s Journal

My Watercolor of Winter Harbor

Watercolors Done at the Quarry

Two New Abstract Watercolors

Book Review: Being Bold with Watercolor

Favorite Books

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