A few steps into

The garden reveals a mass

Of native flowers.

Art Prescription: Sketched at the North Carolina Botanical Garden today on index cards with pen and ink and colored pencil.

Hummer, the subject

So many lines and flowers

Planning a painting.

Art Prescription: This is a mock up design on newsprint to see if I like the composition. The hummingbird should be the focal point.

Sit with me a while

In the sun and fresh spring air

Know what this is, be.

Art Prescription: Life is a complex journey. How would you feel to sit in a field of wildflowers in the sun? Inhale…exhale…

Watercolor:

Cold front, April snow?

Pink petals spiral on street

As trees bend to wind.

Art Prescription: In my quest to find balance and happiness in this one precious life, I truly believe what we focus on is what we get. That being said, I’ve been awake since about 2 am because I chose to eat not one, but two ice-cream sandwiches after dinner last night.

Art journal with mixed-media:

I’m so grateful for the friends I’ve made in the blogosphere. I appreciate your every like and comment.

Rode my boy Finn today and then he got a grassy treat. We have to let them out slow on this rich spring grass which is full of sugar.

He dove into the ripe green taking big mouthfuls.

A Ball canning jar

Perfect azalea vase

Cheerful spring posey.

Art Prescription: One of my favorites, a posey. I like simple. I like easy fresh lines. Life and change overwhelm me… I return to a simple posey again and again.

Watercolor:

Inhale, soil and moss

Exhale, birds fill the fresh air

Inhale, where are you?

Art Prescription: Often we are not in our bodies.

Acrylic left over paint brushed onto an index card. Then I drew with colored pencil. So fun!

April buds to bloom

Azaleas, magenta

Quaker Ladies, blue.

Art Prescription: wet watercolor:

Cool morning, jacket

Sun warms the land, shed layers

Pairs of birds build nests.

Art Prescription: Spring reminds us we reap what we sow. Are we watering the weeds or the flowers? Watching the natural world, I’m convinced that positive thinking and living in the moment are keys to happiness.

Art journal, mixed media: