She took the curves slow
Remembering those long days
On route sixty-six.
Art Prescription: Index card a day challenge: Route 66…what would you do? My artists fellows…Try an index card.
Index card with collage and pen and ink drawing
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Salt and Pepper June 14, 2015
Birds salt and pepper
Summer trees with trill and song
A pop of color.
Art Prescription: So much beautiful green and then there, right there, is a flash of bold color! A bird.
Index card with colored pencil:
Blueberry and Plum June 13, 2015
Blueberry horses
In a plum colored meadow
Imagination.
Art Prescription: Working off a prompt for an index card a day challenge. Blueberry and plum.
Index card with colored pencil:
Childhood Memory June 8, 2015
Outside my window
At twelve-o-five Kingwood Drive
Stood a cherry tree.
Art Prescription: Funny the memories that pop into your head.
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Pollination June 6, 2015
Pollinators work
To taxi pollen from one
Flower to the next.
Art Prescription: The majority of all flowering plants rely on pollinators, a group of animals that includes over 200,000 species, including bees, birds, and buttrerflies.
Index card with colored pencil and pen and ink:
Owlets June 5, 2015
Owlets peek out from
Holes in trees, big round wide eyes
They practice the hunt.
Art Prescription: From the start it seems nature’s babies have their “ness” about them. Their owl “ness,” their horse “ness,” their dog “ness.”
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Mail June 4, 2015
A lost art, writing?
Posting a card or letter
By horse-back or air.
Art Prescription: Who doesn’t love to get a hand-written note in the mail? Years from now will this be a lost art?
Index cards with collage and colored pencil:
Field of Horses June 3, 2015
Watching us watch them
The horses assess auras
A rainbow I’m sure.
Art Prescription: Horses fascinate me. Their body language, the shift of an ear.
Watercolor 8 1/2 x 11
Two Mares May 31, 2015
Side by side they share
A flake of freshly baled hay
Sunday at the farm.
Art Prescription: Beautiful morning to be out feeding the herd. It fills my senses. Back to studio to work with Sumi-ink.
Index Card Art May 29, 2015
Brainstorming for art
A three by five index card
Just the perfect size.
Art Prescription: I’m playing with a concept for a napkin design.
Index card with colored pencil:
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