Turquoise, white, and red
Sat unused on the palette
A zinnia born.
Art Prescription: I finished two trees for UNC Hospitals today. Bittersweet…this work I do…honored. I had left over paint. So I headed to my studio, (I paint in my garage for these big pieces), and some zinnias bloomed.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor, stamps, and acrylic:
All along the ground
Wildflowers mingled with grass
Sway in the saddle.
Art Prescription: Took a long trail ride today! Perfect weather and the scent of honeysuckle filled the air. Along the ground I saw purple-spring vetch, clover, and purple nettle.
Wet in wet watercolor:
Pure instinct, the flight
The wave of wing to his mate
And the nest begins.
Art Prescription: My chickadee batch fledged. And now a pair of blue birds are claiming the box. I adore seeing them messaging each other with subtle wing waves.
Index card with graphite and colored pencil:
News takes breath away
Wide awake at four a. m.
Life is so fragile.
Art Prescription: Live in the moment of each day.
8 x 11 watercolor
Window to the soul
A place you gaze when in love
Where you find the truth.
Art Prescription: I did this sketch one night in bed. Added colored pencil just now.
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Dried by sun and breeze
Clothes and towels hang on line
Load of fresh laundry.
Art Prescription: My grandmother’s towels smelled like fresh air and sunshine. I can see her right now with an apron on, clothespins in the pocket, reaching up to the clothesline to hang a fresh load of laundry.
8 1/2 x 11 mixed media sketch
Reincarnation
Pigs became fall at the lake
Tropical palm trees.
Art Prescription: Like life…art can be all over the place. And sometimes we need a “do over.” Today I had many of these as nothing I painted resonated with my soul.
Here is a many, many, layers final piece:
Like the Eagle’s song
I’m pushing it to limits
With color and marks.
Art Prescription: Thinking last nights painting was a bit dull, I went back into it with color, graphite, and colored pencil. Could be just emotion…
Finn grazing, spring grass
So ripe and green, expansive
Buries his nose, bliss.
Art Prescription: I love seeing the horses out in the pasture where they are wild and free.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor pencil:
Seasons come and go
She forgets where her keys are
And paints a fall scene.
Art Prescription: Life moves so fast, it all blends into one.
Fall collage, based on a real collage of elements last fall. Just felt like it.
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