A Mason Ball jar
Holds the perfect mix, posy
Celebrate today!
Art Prescription: Index card and colored pencil…
Author: beverlydyer
You are Perfect August 20, 2015
A world of beauty
Yet each sunflower is fine
And perfectly blooms.
Art Prescription: Why do we humans have such a hard time blooming…recognizing our beautiful parts and strengths and individual differences? Can we take a lesson from the garden where each bloom just reaches for the sun? Cause it’s a short journey this one livid life. So my friends go out there and bloom!!
Alcohol ink and pen:
Sea Turtle August 19, 2015
She glides in the cool
Vast blue-green ocean, eggs laid
Her work on shore, done.
Art Prescription: Today I honor the Sea Turtle.
Sea turtles are one of the Earth’s most ancient creatures. The seven species that can be found today have been around for 110 million years, since the time of the dinosaurs.
Sea turtles spend most of their lives in the water. Like salmon, they will return to the same nesting grounds at which they were born. When females come to the shore they dig out a nest in the ground with their back flippers, bury their clutch of eggs and return to the ocean. After hatching, the young may take as long as a week to dig themselves out of the nest. They emerge at night, move toward the ocean and remain there, solitary, until it is time to mate.
Alcohol ink, watercolor, and pen and ink:
Seed Harvest August 18, 2015
Cone flower buffet
Acrobatic feats for seed
Lively Gold Finches.
Art Prescription: Seeing my garden go to seed does evoke a slight melancholy… that summer is stepping aside for fall. Soon the beautiful colors of the flowers will be replaced by showy fall leaves. Each season has it’s own gift. For now I’m enjoying watching the birds find a harvest feast among my Echinacea.
Ball point pen sketch with colored pencil:
Girl with the Yellow Umbrella August 17, 2015
Fabric from Paris
She flows with tide, girl with the
Yellow umbrella
Art Prescription: Girl on the beach take 3…or I lost count. Not satisfied with the final watercolor, again my colors muddy. So I paper collaged with torn pieces from other not so great watercolors. I kind of like the mixed media end product. A good example of how no work is ever wasted. I save every piece that should be filed in the trash. And weeks or months later I see that piece has the perfect color I need for a collage…let her rip!!
Watercolor background with torn paper:
Talk to Me August 16, 2015
We all are story
Shaped by our past, what we are
Listen, you will hear.
Art Prescription: The shear act of listening is an art. In our push a button hyped up world of texting and immediate gratification, do we really take the time to listen to others? I love my gadgets… and I also love slowing down at the farm with the horses. Really nice.
Just Me August 15, 2015
Alone in garden
She bends and grows, taking her
Place in the big world.
Art Prescription: Each bloom brave and important.
Wait For It August 14, 2015
Patience a virtue
Wait for my trust and I will
Let you pet my head.
Art Prescription: A year and a half of trying to help care-take a stray cat with my neighbor. And today he let me pet his head.
Index card with colored pencil:
JUmp High August 13, 2015
Life is a pole vault
Jump as high as you can, and
Careful where you land.
Art Prescription: Life is busy. We need to conserve our “pole vaulting” energy for when the going gets rough. On a daily basis it’s best to take small, manageable jumps, ones we can succeed.
Colored pencil on index cards:
Afternoon Sketch August 12, 2015
Red gerber daisies
Highlight in August garden
Truly late bloomers.
Art Prescription: And that’s okay. Better to bloom late than not at all.
Colored pencil on index card:
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