See your reflection?
Who does it remind you of?
Are you becoming?
Art Prescription: People say as we get older we become more like our parents…GASP! My hope is that we become more like the good our parents taught us. And that we are able to grow into our authentic skin seeking the positive in each and every day. We have this one precious life…seek the glass half full!
Watercolor 8 1/2 x 11
Can the rose define
Flowers, well if anyone
She can say it all.
Art Prescription: I adore everything about roses…their smell, their soft, velvet petals, their slight attitude with thorns…and the simple fact that a bunch of roses says love.
8 x 8 watercolor
Each whole day offers
An opportunity to
Strive for true balance.
Art Prescription: Despite his very own water bucket being full of fresh water, Max the barn cat chooses to balance precariously to drink from the horse trough.
He knows balance is involved in knowing what you want, asking for what you need.
Well done Max!
Watercolor sketch:
Dream big and start small
Follow your inspiration
Share it with the world.
Art Prescription: That is just what the founders of Spoonflower did! My art friends and I took a tour of their facility today and it was very inspirational. Stay tuned for a little write up of our tour, as soon as I can get my head out of the day-dreaming clouds…
Organization
Having your ducks in a row
Know where you’re going?
Art Prescription: I know where I’m going tomorrow!! I’m going for a tour of Spoonflower! And I will be covering my adventure here at the Art Prescription, so stay tuned!! Yip!
Not birds entirely
In contrast with things that sing
The mind and the wind.
Art Prescription: Sometimes the mind and the wind whip around without direction, a force not to be tamed, but acknowledged.
Abstract watercolor:
Fall, Orange County
The fields, acres of fresh dirt
Tractor tracks remain.
Art Prescription: As I drive past Maple View Farm on the way home from riding Finn, the fields are so freshly plowed they glow orange.
Index card with watercolor:
As the garden wains
My imagination comes
To stay for winter.
Art Prescription: My favorite way to paint…random chaos, drips and puddles, blooms, that become a wildflower meadow.
8 x 8 watercolor
No wind, waves, ripples
Perfect reflection on pond
Mind like still water.
Art Prescription: Misu no kokoro translates in Japanese to “A mind like still water.” It refers to water taking on a mirror-like quality. Working with horses is like this.
From Mark Rashid’s book “Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building trust between horse and rider:”
“Put simply, developing a quiet mind allows us to take in and process information in a true and correct manner and then respond appropriately, in a way suited to the situation, provided the situation even needs a response.”
It occurs to me that this applies to every relationship in our lives.
Index card with watercolor and my chop that says “hope.”
In the fall garden
Pink buds, zinnias still bloom
Hold on to color.
Art Prescription: As the trees steadily drop leaves, my zinnias bloom.
Index card with watercolor and pen and ink:
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