Showy umbrellas
White clusters of cherry blooms
Brighten April rain.
Art Prescription: For a while today it was sleeting! Tricky Mother Nature! Meanwhile the blossoms bloom, and spring goes on about her flamboyant business of making us smile!!
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Haiku April 3, 2013 High Heels
She hikes at the mall
Legs as long as a flagpole
The sport of shopping.
Art Prescription: For those of you who have been following my blog, you will see this is a radical departure from my usual ramblings about nature and the woods. For girls like me who actually prefer the woods to the mall…sometimes it’s good to take a walk on the “wild” side!!
Haiku April 2, 2013 Verve
New watercolor
Turquoise! Verve! blend of blue-green
A vase of flowers!
Art Prescription: I went to my favorite art-store today for canvases for a project I’m doing for UNC Hospitals. Of course no art-store expedition is complete without buying a new paint color! I bought a luscious turquoise and viola…flowers!
Haiku April 1, 2013 Twilight
Twilight, forest wakes
Frogs rib-it, birds lullabye
Owls begin to prowl.
Art Prescription: Watching the sun go down and listening to the night-time creatures awaken is musical!
Haiku March 31, 2013 Trout-lily
If Trout-lilys played
A musical instrument.
They’d be violins.
Art Prescription: One of the main reasons I like sketching live is to feel the personality of a plant. As a certified botanical illustrator, we were taught to tell the plant’s story. Get your sketchbook and go out and draw…think you can’t draw? Just let your hand follow your eye. Get your brain, and what you think you see out of the way….just follow the contours of the subject.
Haiku March 30, 2013 North Carolina Botanical Gardens
Faint from spring beauty
I grasp to take it all in
This one human life.
Art Prescription: Sometimes nature’s beauty overwhelms me. We hiked our favorite place Mason Farm Biological Preserve, and I went to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens to sketch!!
March 29, 2013 Ducklings
In the woods a nest
Made with down and feathers, waits
For newly laid eggs.
Art Prescription: A dance in the water…the male soars just above, lands with grace and ripples. The female is interested. Her nest is ready…
Haiku March 28, 2013 Pear Trees
Spring pear-tree blossoms
Swirl to the ground like snow flakes
Blown about by March.
Art Prescription: The white-tops of spring blooming trees reminds me of snow.
Haiku March 27, 2013 Sketch Fun
A pen and paper
Expressive sketch, just capture
The essence of cat.
Art Prescription: Part of the Art Prescription philosophy is to encourage creativity any where, any time. Nothing has to be perfect, just play and have fun.
Haiku March 26, 2013 Hummingbirds
Backyard bird haven
Songbirds await arrival
Mini feathered friends.
Art Prescription: Season change brings new friends.
