When the right time comes
You must garden with sharp shears
To promote blooming!
Art Prescription: Plant, prune, water, love…and your garden and life will reward you with ample growth!
Index card with a one staple collage and free form stitching:
art journal
Cat June 28, 2016
Strong wrists, table pose
Inhale, now stretch into cow
Exhale, round back, cat.
Art Prescription: Yoga…a place to put life…
Index card with watercolor:
Motel Hotel June 27, 2016
Crisp clean white bed sheets
Air con set on sixty-six
Sleep till you wake up.
Art Prescription: Who doesn’t enjoy the luxury of a hotel room with loads of clean linens, and the joy of not having to laundry a single thing! Pull those black-out curtains close and after a shower, and of course room service, snuggle into a pile of pillows and sleep…and sleep…
Index card with watercolor:
One Focus June 25, 2016
Slim and trim from work
Carolina Wren parents
Come and go with bugs.
Art Prescription: A box outside my studio…wren parents feed their young. They are only focused on one thing…survival.
Index card:
White Hydrangeas June 23, 2016
Full…a red ball jar
Perfect white hydrangeas
Simple, elegant.
Art Prescription: A watercolor sketch on watercolor paper…
Season of Life June 22, 2016
June blooms, Queen Ann’s Lace
A short season of spotlight
And then go to seed.
Art Prescription: I find many metaphors in the garden. We are each here to bloom and shine as best as we know how. So, what are you waiting for?!!!
Index card with acrylic and watercolor:
Blackberries June 21, 2016
A deer clears the fence
Horses lift their heads from grass
Blackberries galore.
Art Prescription: Went out to see Finn this afternoon. So serene in the pasture. A single deer comes bolting out of no where and jumps over the fence. Stellar athelete! Meanwhile there are ripening blackberries all along the woods.
Index card with watercolor and colored pencil:
Summer Solstice June 20, 2016
A Strawberry Moon
Rises on Summer Solstice
Longest day of year.
Art Prescription: Index card with colored pencil…
Design June 19, 2016
Infinite design
The ultimate architect
Snowflake and flower.
Art Prescription: Seems the same perfect designs show up in all of nature’s creations. My wonderful neighbors brought me a bouquet of Bachelor’s Button. I did this study of a single flower.
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil, chop says “hope,” machine stitching:
Pencil Set June 18, 2016
Orange, red, and pink
Collaborate on summer
Color tour de force.
Art Prescription: I recently picked up a set of colored pencils from a tag sale. Yep! It’s addicting…
Index card with colored pencil and collage:
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