Haiku May 31, 2013 May Roses

Bring summer inside

Clip ripe colorful bouquets

Enjoy May roses!!

Art Prescription:  A fresh bouquet out of my rose garden! This is painted very loosely. Don’t feel overwhelmed to get to all the detail. Just capture their essence with a quick pen sketch, color with watercolor, re-pen for detail, add some watery background…Be thrilled with your May roses!! Change your mood, your energy, in 20 minutes…go ahead try it!!

May roses

Haiku May 30, 2013 Fishing

Side by side they walk

One carries pole, other net

Summertime fishing.

Art Prescription:  I have many fish tales from my summers at grandma’s. Not a worry in the world, we’d head off to a relative’s pond with a tub of earth worms and a bamboo pole. Truth is the last time I went fishing was when I “hooked” my date’s head…yep I set the hook!! Now my husband, we don’t fish. We rode back to Chapel Hill, hook and line in tow, to have a physician friend excise the hook. I guess my years of summers in the country, my attempt to show – see I’m an outdoors kind-of -girl, did not make a grand impression. He married me anyways!!

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Haiku May 29, 2013 Fly By

Glistening water

Jets towards bird bath, hummer flies

Darts in, out of stream!

Art Prescription:  This time of year requires daily refilling bird bath. While spraying clean water in the bath, and also watering newly planted impatiens, a hummingbird darted through stream. So fast! Just getting a quick shower!  Here’s a sneak peek at some new check designs…

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Haiku May 28, 2013 Smell of Grease Paint

Scent of fresh cedar

Brand new possibilities

Unwrap white canvas.

Art Prescription:  Like actors who love “the smell of grease paint,” I love the smell of a new canvas. Cedar is often used to make stretcher bars for canvas. So when I unwrap a fresh white canvas my studio becomes scented with possibilities!!

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Haiku May 27, 2013 Object Desire

Things lost and then found

One’s trash, another’s treasure

Objects of desire.

Art Prescription:  Two scenarios here. One, my hand-painted stool will be found tomorrow in an assortment of boxes at Goodwill, or two, some child is laughing at their new silly cat and mouse stool! Why do we humans get so attached to inanimate objects? My husband who is a get things done kind-of-guy, most of the time an excellent trait, inadvertently took my beloved field-sketching stool to the Goodwill. I’m wrangling with thoughts of a child loving their new object, and mourning the loss of MY STOOL! MINE! Okay, so this is where my years of yoga and practicing letting go might really come in handy, MINE! Sometimes all the practice in the world doesn’t equate to our humanly notions of hanging on, letting things define our life, getting stuck and not moving on, learning to share…

object desire

Haiku May 23, 2013 Corn on Cob

Fresh sweet corn on cob

Pale yellow kernels of good

Wears a fancy cap!

Art Prescription:  Fresh corn has arrived. Tonight I’m making a corn, tomato, fresh basil succotash, along with a mushroom mixed cheese wrap. Quick watercolor pencil sketch of my corn.

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