Loads of rich green moss
And soft downy rabbit fur
A chickadee nest.
Art Prescription: It fascinates me that all birds build different nests. Some use twigs and vines, some nest in tree cavities, others build with leaves, moss, fur, and I’ve even seen a snake skin. What a lot of work these winged friends put into their offspring.
Sumi-ink with my chop that says “hope”
Nestled in the leaves
One stem at a time, then bloom
Fiddleheads salute.
Art Prescription: With my sketchbook and a box of colored pencils, I headed off to the North Carolina Botanical Garden in search of the ephemeral wildflowers.
Art Journal with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Tremble in their frame
Delicate ephemerals
Up from frozen ground.
Art Prescription: About now the banks of creeks are full of blooming Trout Lilies. I adore their delicate nodding heads.
Watercolor 8 1/2 x 11 ( flower drawn and painted at 4x)
Humble pie is served
I’ll take a submissive slice
And assume it’s best.
Art Prescription: Sometimes we learn our best life lessons by taking a step back, being humble, and looking at the big picture.
Index card with watercolor:
Bullfrogs croak, fish swirl
Great blue heron struts the shore
Water reflects sky.
Art Prescription: I spent my afternoon gathering supplies for art journaling kits. I love my art journal…a place to play with mixed media, a place to experience art versus “making” art. Creativity is so important to a balanced life. I’ve listed a few of my kits in my Etsy shop. Take a look and be inspired! I’d love to see what you do!
Here is my journal for today. I collaged vintage papers all over page. Then I sketched some pansies from my garden onto the page and colored them with a light wash of watercolor.
A busy kitchen
Spells love, and a fresh menu
Real homemade goodness.
Art Prescription: It’s fun to have time on the weekend to cook together. Kitchen time chopping fresh produce…and then the reward, yum.
Art Journal Page
Cold rainy morning
Warm blankets and cats call me
Back into my bed.
Art Prescription: Saturday morning. No place in particular to be. It’s cloudy and rainy and cold…brrrr. Warm cats, warm bed, is this really a decision?
Using my collage paper with the 1903 ledger and flowers, I then sewed my index card sketches onto the paper. Fun!!!
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Something old and new
Years of age and a fresh bloom
Each tells a story.
Art Prescription: Another piece using a 1903 ledger from Carrboro, North Carolina. These dusty pages tell a story. So I picked a few of my freshly bloomed flowers…and here is the conversation…
A vintage ledger
A glimpse of nineteen hundred
Hand-written account.
Art Prescription: So I was gifted this 1903 ledger, a store from Carrboro, North Carolina. Flipping through the pages gives me the chills as I realize how far we’ve come, and what we have lost. Lost are hand-written records with beautiful penmanship, lost are solid articles you can hold and feel, lost are things packed away for finding later. Digital means it’s all somewhere.
Art Journal Page 8 1/2 x 11 (available in my Etsy shop)
Cold, chill to the bone
Steady drizzle and down-pours
Early springs revenge.
Art Prescription: So we have had record high temperatures, and now we are having record low temperatures.
Index card with watercolor and colored pencil:
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