Spiral, twist, and turn
Double helix that is life
Deep in the fall woods!
Art Prescription: Everyone needs favorite places. This painting, a new exciting size of watercolor blocks 4 x 10 ish, was created from a place near our home called The Farm. Lush woods and a bamboo forest. Pretty in all seasons! Find one thing that captures your eye and build around it.
Blue Willow china
Collectible favorite
Simply blue and white.
Art Prescription: Are you familiar with Blue Willow, a china pattern from the turn of the 19th century? I have always loved the combination of blue and white. I’ve painted blue watercolor on white paper…and now am experimenting with white ink on a dark ultramarine blue background. Ooooohh!
Orange Cosmos spread
Stars in the night sky, random
Expressionistic.
Art Prescription: My one tall Cosmo stalk is now covered in blossoms. My neighbor said “they look like stars.” I really like this analogy…Perhaps why they are called Cosmos. Here’s a sketch done by laying down a colored background and then drawing with white ink. Playing with opposite colors, light on dark.
Historic houses
Water front, sail-boat masts, yachts
Bridges arc river.
Art Prescription: Sam and I rode bikes all over Newbern, NC. Beautiful old houses and cemeteries draped with moss. Different visuals for the artist eye…good inspiration.
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.
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…
Sam and I arrived in New York by 10 am Saturday. Took a frantic taxi ride to the Jacob Javits Center to set the booth up.
When you first get there the isles are filled with crates and cases, the beep, beep, beep of cranes and other industrial machines sound off against bare walls. As exhibitors file in the booths begin to shine with art and design.
You walk out of an industrial zone and the next morning the carpet is down and the show is open for business!!
We spent the next full three days meeting other exhibitors (this is awesome!), art directors, creative directors, product design and development directors, publishers, buyers, retailers, merchandise managers, CEO’s, presidents, licensing directors, fine art companies, poster companies, manufacturers, and new artists walking the show to learn about the industry. Also we took turns walking The National Stationery Show.
Now the work begins! Follow-up Follow-up Follow-up
I have to say I’m most excited about the opportunity to have my art licensed for stamps, fabric, and kits to encourage creativity in others. To share the joy of art-making is part of my mission via The Art Prescription!! Cheers! Beverly
Like a New Yorker
We weave in and out of crowd
Everyone on go!
Art Prescription: New York city is not for the slow and methodical. Not for the wanderer who wishes to pause and take it all in…do that and someone will run you over…maybe a bus!! Walking the streets I heard not one word of English, except for the highly accented personnel selling tickets to shows, comedy, bus rides, psychics, weed, or a photo with Spiderman, the Naked Cowboy – hmmmm, or the folks just flat out begging for money. “The Melting Pot.” How extremely lucky are we to be able to drop in and visit this magnificent city and fly out again to the green, green, grass of NC. Knowing where you belong is worth a life-time of wants!!
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