Edible flower

Horticulture therapy

Spring arugula.

Art Prescription: A wet walk at the NC Botanical Garden. Spring ephemerals are raising their heads.

Found blooms in the Horticulture Therapy garden.

Cabbage and arugula:

Art Journal with multi-media:

High alert, playful

The cat hunts and stalks with pride

Likes can opener.

Art Prescription: my indoor cats are deprived. They don’t get to stalk grass-hoppers and mice.

Watercolor brush painting. My chop says “hope”

Hi, hope you had a good weekend!

I fed the horses as usual on Sunday and it was wet and cold! Then the fog lifted and the sun came out!

I went back in to yesterday’s painting and added pen and ink. Which do you like better?

Watercolor, pen and ink:

Big bright yellow blooms

Rain pelts streets and lawns, heavy

Daffodils bend, wet.

Art Prescription:

Catch the eight-fifteen

You get up every morning

The bus is too warm.

Art Prescription: Worked my RN job today. Good to use the other side of my brain.

Home to work on a commission for five UNC Ramses paintings.

Doing it assembly line style. While one is drying I paint the next.

Works in progress:

The mockingbird sings

She is determined to chase

Cold and rain away.

Art Prescription: watercolor in my tiny journal.

Coffee stains in bed

Pulls the comforter closer

Turns the page of book

Art Prescription: Cold, grey, rainy day. As I drag myself over to the pool to swim, I have thoughts of staying cuddled in bed reading.

Two cats would surely join me with approval.

Alas…one must make good choices.

This piece did start with coffee stains. I noticed the paper towel under my morning cup. I cut some “flowers” out, glued them into my journal and added background.

Art Journal with coffee stained paper towel and watercolor:

Put on a sweatshirt

Then flannel pajama pants

Still cold in the house.

Art Prescription: I’ve worked on a commission today. It’s coming along.

To relax I drew this pattern with my Caran D’ache crayons.

The cycle of life

Smell from a burning wood fire

Spring rumbles beneath.

Art Prescription: The smell of a wood fire. Warmth. Cozy. Winter.

Daffodils are blooming. Soon spring ephemerals will follow.

Mixed media: