Haiku June 18, 2012 Girl Talk

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Girly walk and talk

Unselfconscious friends stride

Say what’s on their mind.

Art Prescription:  No matter how close you are with your significant other, a friend who you can walk and talk with is precious. This afternoon I took a break from my home remodel project to go for a nice afternoon walk with a good friend. We took a sandy path through a bit of woods to get over to the North Carolina Botanical Garden. I wanted to see the current art exhibit that features the teachers of the Botanical Illustration Program. Colored pencil, pastels, watercolor, and graphite, nice! a chance to have a meandering conversation, priceless! Black-eyed Susans at the garden, cheerful yellow dots of color.

Haiku June 17, 2012 Clean Slate

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Clean slate, start over

Neoteric, ambitious

A canvas of hope.

Art Prescription: Doing some home-work…painting, new floor, new bathroom design. WE are do-it-yourselfers. We obviously both enjoy hard work and the reward that comes from it. Our bonus room is getting a new coat of paint on the ceiling and walls, and a new bamboo floor. This room is my home office.

I went to swim after a day of painting to undo soreness, and I thought about how many people wish they could start their life over with a clean slate. Now that you know what you know, what would you do different? Fresh paint, fresh perspective…

 

Haiku June 16, 2012 Echinachea

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Echinachea

Grows tall, petals nod gently

No apathy here!

Art Prescription:  Actually more commonly known as Purple Echinachea, or Echinachea purpurea, Eastern Cone Flower. My blooming group stands tall and proud in the corner of a plant bed that rounds the sidewalk to my studio. These big, bold blooms say hello! And Echinachea has antidepressant properties, and is believed to stimulate the immune system.    

We could all use a bit of this. I’m distressed by apathy – or the seemingly spiritlessness of some people’s lives. The human will is a fragile thing. For me the simple act of watering and caring for my blooming garden creates moment after moment of peace and joy! The spirit of nature renews me, to study and sketch, sublime!

Haiku June 15, 2012 Sunflowers

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Bout to bust open

Show off big yellow petals

Wide rich green veined leaves.

Art Prescription:  So, the squirrels planted a couple of sunflower seeds last fall in my deck pots. Now with regular water and sun, these “volunteers” are growing tall and about to bust a bloom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sitting quietly and sketching with pen and ink is so Zen. No matter what’s on your mind, you can escape for the moment and study your specimen. Stay in the moment…stay in the moment…life is all about moment to moment. When we spend too much time worrying about the past or the future we are literally losing the moments we are living. I’ve tried meditating, but sitting still is a problem for me. A moving meditation like walking or drawing, or swimming, works magic. Namaste.

Haiku June 14, 2012 Swallows

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Swallows swirl and float

Soar, twitter musically

Catch a ray of light.

Art Prescription:  After my first day back at my nursing job, I went out to water my garden and breathe in nature. I spent some time working on some pen and ink sketches…so rewarding studying something up close, and getting to knows its curves. I noticed a small flock of birds quite active over the tall pine trees. I sat down to watch them. Swallows! I sat for a while watching them swoop and dive and float chasing their evening meal. They are insectivores. It was like watching an aerial ballet! So relaxing and their calls to each other sweet, clicking I haven’t heard before. As they occasionally flapped their wings to stay afloat,  their pale colored bellies would catch the evening sun… take my breath.

June 13, 2012 Fresh Paint

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Brush and roll fresh paint

A room takes on new color

Changes atmosphere.

Art Prescription:  My final day off before returning to my RN job I decided to do some painting…not what you might expect. I decided to paint the walls of my guest bathroom! Picked out a beautiful new shower curtain with purples and greys. Painted the room with a blue-green to compliment the purple. It’s nice to have a change in the feeling of a room. Color is an amazing element. With the swipe of a paint brush, you can change the entire mood of your environment. A little manual labor and viola! new room!

Haiku June 11, 2012 Rain!!

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Drip, drop, drip, drop, pour!

Concentric rings ripple out

Rain rivers down street.

Art Prescription:  Big drifting sheets of rain pour from the grey sky. Perfect! Everything needs a good drenching. I like to walk in the rain…so peaceful…musky earth smells rise up to mingle with fresh air. Frogs are in “hog” or perhaps it should be “frog,” heaven, croaking by the streams. As an artist, the designs made by rain-drops intrigue me. There is an abstract quality to the repeating circles that ripple out and converge. Reminds me that each action creates a new action, a simple rain drop displaces water making tiny round waves hundreds of times larger than the drop. Each moment of life a ripple…

Haiku June 10, 2012 Tie-Dye

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Five pots of color

Lots of clean white apparel

Twist and turn, design!

Art Prescription:  Out watering my garden when I noticed my neighbor doing something on their back deck. Making ice-cream? Cooking? Planting? Seemed they were wearing some kind of gloves…watered a little closer. “Come on over they beckoned.” Ah…Tie-Dye! They had the full system in place, the pre-soak, red, yellow, purple, blue, and green containers of color and lots of rubber bands. Mind if I crash your tie-dye party? Ran home to get a plain white skirt that was destined for the Goodwill, and viola!!! New skirt. What fun! Ain’t it wonderful to have neighbors that welcome you to their back-yard events…Oh, you are having burgers!! Just kidding!!!!

Haiku June 9, 2012 Whole

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Red bras and chainsaws,

Leather and lace, well-rounded

An array of parts.

Art Prescription:  Most of us are made up of many parts. The life we have lived up to this very moment makes us who we are, and filters the way we see the world. We all have soft and hard edges which serve us well in different situations. Part of what makes a painting interesting is soft and hard edges…they all work together to form a whole.