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.
It wasn’t sunlight
That so captured the morning
Sudden immense shade.
Art Prescription: Sometimes you get caught between light and shade.
8 1/2 x 11 graphite writing, watercolor and alcohol ink:
Watching mourning doves
She sits and wiggles to get
Her nest just perfect.
Art Prescription: Watching birds build nests in my own backyard. Finished my marigold from yesterday. Added colored pencil and graphite.
In the pouring rain
We fluff our wet, cold, feathers
And continue work.
Art Prescription: Yes I’m obsessed with my chickadees. And my new illustrated book!! Thoughts of a Golden Fox!
I’m very excited to introduce my latest illustration work, “Thoughts of a Golden Fox.”
Thoughts of a Golden Fox, written by Charles David Rushbrook and illustrated by Beverly Dyer, is a delightful book for children, ages 6-11. The story is told from the viewpoint of a mother Golden Fox, which, according to the book’s short and gentle-hearted Glossary, is “…a magical, and rarely seen, species of fox with unbelievably beautiful golden coats!
Now available in iTunes!! https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1224615643
You can visit iTunes and read a sample chapter.
8 1/2 x 11 mixed media:
The box is singing
Fledglings are making some noise
Do the parents sleep?
Art Prescription: Mother Nature’s tenacity is amazing. Every minute or so I see one of the chickadee parents leave the box to go grocery shopping. The box gets quiet. And as soon as one of the parents flies in, there is a lot of sweet high-note chirping going on.
Index card with colored pencil:
Morning at the farm
A white horse stands in a field
Yellow buttercups.
Art Prescription: Sketch and colored pencil on an index card. Miss Ava June.
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