Guess What!?!  I was just published in heART Journal Magazine!

To celebrate heART Journal Magazine has a given me a free issue bonus code to share with others.

Get your free issue of heART Journal Magazine today! 

Simply download the app on iTunes https://bit.ly/heARTMag or Google Play  http://bit.ly/Heartjournal

Then on your device follow these directions using subscriber code : heartsharing (case sensitive)

• Install the App on your device
• Launch the Magazine
• On the Home Page, Tap on the Yellow subscribe button
• Tap on the Current Subscribers button                                                                                                              
• Enter this: heartsharing (case sensitive)

You will now be able to download a free issue to heART Journal Magazine.  Remember, the code is case sensitive.   Please show heART Journal Magazine some love by giving them a rating (there is an easy to use rating link inside the magazine) For help with the coupon code, email heartjournalmag@gmail.com   This code is good for 4 weeks please use before October 1^st.  

Fresh coat, barn red paint

A bride’s life-long wedding dream

White, horse-drawn wagon.

Art Prescription:  I did a different kind of painting today! I helped paint a wagon barn red for a friend’s daughter’s wedding. The brides and her wedding party, will be horse-drawn by a team of white horses to meet her groom. They are getting married on a horse farm….so romantic.

Stay tuned!! I’m getting published in HeART Art Journal Magazine!! Will let you know as soon as it comes out!!

Nature’s red lipstick

Bright native for hummingbirds

Cousin to orchids.

Art Prescription:  These colorful flowers are stealing the garden right now. Watercolor pencil on 3 x 5 index card.

Black sunflower seed

Pecking order in action

Hummer zooms in, out!

Art Prescription:  After a long day at my RN job, I relish putting fresh sunflower seed out and watching the birds. The cardinals, chickadees, wrens, morning doves, and squirrels enjoy the offering. Funny to watch them assert themselves. Meanwhile a hummer flies in and out sampling the nectar of my potted geraniums.

Pen and ink and colored pencil after a frenetic day. Working it out in my journal!

Hips slide back and forth

Big strong muscles move, rhythm

Warm silky bare back.

Art Prescription:  Even though it sounds like a chapter out of a romance novel, it is horse-back riding. And it is all that…

Light in the kitchen

Shines at a different tilt

August long shadows.

Art Prescription:  Haven’t done a tree in a while. Soothing black and white. Sumi-ink on watercolor paper 8 1/2 x 11. Available in my Etsy shop for $25.00.

Real women have hips

Like a rose we bloom, fleshy

Each part delicate.

Art Prescription:  Painted on mailing labels today. Home-made washi tape. 3 x 5 collage

Summer slips away

A few leaves fall here and there

Flowers turn to seed.

Art Prescription:  Lovely walk with friend’s today at NC Botanical Gardens. Many of the flowers have turned to seed which means abundant food for the song-birds. Seed pods are so intricate and a challenge to draw. Here are my cone-flowers and cosmos going to seed. Pen and ink in journal.

A field of milk weed

Bright orange Monarchs swirl dance

Long flight, Mexico.

Art Prescription:  Often when we think we are seeing Monarchs, it is their look-a-like Viceroys. Monarchs are on the decline due to human impact. It warms my heart and soul to find this natural field of milk weed on a hike at Merritt’s Pasture here in Chapel Hill, NC. Thank you to them for holding space for these beautiful creatures to carry on.

Hello Art Prescription friends,

I’m a big fan of Stampington and their latest magazine is called Bella Grace. They are sponsoring a blog hop and thought you artists might enjoy.

The Bella Grace Blog Hop

We’re so excited about the release of Bella Grace that we’ve invited a number of well-known authentic living artists, writers, photographers, and bloggers to join us for a very special blog hop event that will take place all throughout the month of August. In honor of the first volume of what we know is going to become a beloved publication, we’re asking our friends to share their own Bella Grace-inspired stories, poetry, photographs, and art. Best of all, each and every one of our co-hosts will be giving away a copy of this stunning magazine, which means our lovely readers have even more chances to win their own free issue.