#hope #artprescription
Let’s start a campaign of hope! There is so much good being done, but the news only covers the dark and hopeless.
What do you do within arms-reach? Hope is built one act at a time.
We the blogosphere can spread hope and love. We are artists. It’s what we do.
A brief distraction
A moment of peace, prayer
A wish of good-will.
Art Prescription: In these turbulent times my wish for peace and good-will goes out to the many. So many hurt and angry souls. Many of us don’t know where to turn. We can only heal within an arm’s reach.
Colored pencil and watercolor:
Farrier, dentist
And a new horse to the farm
Sweat rolls down my back.
Art Prescription: A wonderfully busy day at Blue Skies today! I drove out early hoping to get their before Bodie, the new horse, arrived on a trailer. It was shaping up to be an exciting morning around the barn. Of course Max, the barn cat, was asleep with his legs dangling in the back room.
Bodie arrived and even with all the activity, he got off the trailer cool, calm, and collected. The fact that horses live in the moment is demonstrated over and over again.
So I thought we all might need an ice-cream cone:
8 1/2 x 11 paper painting with watercolor and pen and ink:
A prickly defense
Mixed messages, confusion
Try a little love.
Art Prescription: Tough times in the US. Beyond the thorny anger is flesh…we are all flesh. Love as far as you can reach.
Red Canna Lily
A bold focal point, backyard
To hummer’s delight.
Art Prescription: It’s so amazing to find inspiration in your own back-yard!
Index card with colored pencil:
Carolina wrens
Are busy at the feeder
With their new fledglings.
Art Prescription: We’ve had blue-birds, chickadees, and wrens nest in our bird house this season. I enjoy the distinctive personality of each bird. Now, after the nesting is done, the families come to the feeder together.
Art journal with hand-made journal background and colored pencil sketch:
Braving the big world
Junior wanders on his own
As elders look on.
Art Prescription: I have lots of friends who are sending their young adults off to college. Not an easy time launching your biddies into the big world. We have to trust that we have instilled in them our good ethics and decision making skills. And somehow when least expected, they will return to say “Thank You.”
Special arrival
“Bass” landed in first class crate
Happy to deplane.
Art Prescription: I went in my good ole van today with a friend to pick up her sister’s dog at the airport. The family is moving from California to North Carolina and the pup came first. So rewarding to see him tail-wagging to greet us.
We got home and took a walk with Biscuit, his new roomie.
Watercolor sketch:
Knowing what you need
Asking for what you want, and
Being true to self.
Art Prescription: so my journal is my psychiatrist…where I vent with color and strokes. Pure catharsis!
As life whizzes by
Perhaps we should get out our
Amazing color.
Art Prescription: Because no two days are alike…and why would you want to wait anyways to show your best, your truth, your individuality. It’s a fast ride, so fasten your seatbelt and feel everything.
Watercolor 8 1/2 x 11
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