Wilted in the rain

The bud gave up hope for sun

Until a March day!

Art Prescription: What if nature gave up in the bleak of winter?

Oh the power of hope and joy!!

Get busy living! Get out in the sun!

Watercolor sketch on a green index card:

Solace in the woods

Time fades as you gaze into

Life all around now.

Art Prescription: Woods sketching ephemeral wildflowers!

Pen and ink and watercolor wash:

Six by thirty-two

A tall order of birch trees

For lodge decorum.

Art Prescription: This was fun to paint! An unusual size forced me to consider composition and scale.

Rise up beside fence

Purple Nettle, field pansies

Color the pasture.

Art Prescription: How did I ever see these as weeds? They are magnificent!

iPhoto:

The garden greeter

A mockingbird’s repertoire

Blooming willow tree.

Art Prescription: went to Botanical Garden trails to look for warblers. So many wildflowers!

As we were coming and going the same mockingbird sat and sung his heart out.

Art journal with pen and ink and watercolor pencil:

Disagree, differ

Accede, acquiesce, assent

Communication.

Art Prescription: It’s so very important to listen, and It’s so important to be heard.

Communication is both sides willing to hear the other person’s point of view.

Afternoon shower

Caught me on my walk, wet now

Shower, bed with cat.

Art Prescription: And it was a cold spring rain. Matisse my black cat is happy as can be.

I’m warm, dry, content, blessed.

Ink in journal:

Hi dear blog readers!

Tonight I’m showing you a process… from a nice quiet drawing to adding passion with paint!

I started with tulips my husband bought me. I did a simple drawing using water-colored pencil.

That was fun. Then I went into the watercolor pencils with water and spread the paint a bit.

Still a quiet piece. And I needed to express some emotion!

So, I went back into this drawing with deeper color and bolder marks.

Now, exhale….I like this.

Perched up on the fence

You can see everything

The sunrise and set.

Art Prescription: In life there are many challenges where you see one side of the fence and another sees entirely the others side.

When we are highly emotional it’s hard to see both sides of the fence.

Art Journal: