Big song from tree tops
Hard to find this small warbler
Prothonotary!
Art Prescription: Throughout our stay at Primland we kept hearing a distinct song in the tree-tops. Finally yesterday I got a view of this small warbler. It’s a guess, but
I
think it’s a Prothonotary Warbler.
Bird watcher mission
Hunting with binoculars
Wait! Do you see that?
Art Prescription: Great birding morning at Mason Farm: Indigo Bunting, Common Yellow-Throat, Red-Eyed Vireo, and a Barred Owl!!
Index card sketch – gestural
Under the shade tree
Cows, sheep, and goats roam, while the
Farm tells us stories.
Art Prescription: A day for all the senses. Blue skies with puffy white clouds, the smell of fresh hay and grass, lambs bah, a red apple to eat, the feel of a wooden picnic table. Field sketching at Hogan Farm.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
Student, you teach me
Trust me to a blank paper
Then your muse responds.
Art Prescription: I taught a great class today at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens. It is a wonderful thing to encourage people to be expressive. To give adults permission to play and respond to the paint and not their brain can be a challenge. It always amazes me to see each person tap into their voice…
Here are my finished demonstration pieces:
Blown trees with sumi-ink and watercolor.
Loose wet into wet watercolor trees.
A walk in the woods
Spring wildflowers, pen and ink
For you to color!
Art Prescription: Today I did a set of three pen and ink wildflowers on index cards. I’d love to do an adult coloring book with wildflowers, feathers, and birds. https://www.etsy.com/listing/232055127/adult-coloring-wildflower-index-cards?ref=shop_home_active_1
Pen and ink on index cards
Squirreling away seed
Little “hands” work to gather
Sunflower seed pet.
Art Prescription: It’s hard to feed the birds and not the squirrels. They are master-minds at breaking bird feeders. So I enjoy watching their acrobatic antics.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 watercolor and chop that says “hope”
Among buttercups
Two buddies graze on spring grass
Sumptuous meadow.
Art Prescription: Finn has a new buddy, Digby. They follow one another out in the open grass.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 watercolor
In line to receive
They each get a pair of wings
Three wise bay geldings.
Art Prescription: No fairies were harmed in this photo shoot.
Iphone photo
Framed by a fence line
The old barn can tell stories
About time before.
Art Prescription: I’ve been driving by this barn for years. Here before all the traffic and houses, here when life was simpler. She stands in a field documenting her stories.
Watercolor
Quick little scurry
A flash of brown and whiskers
Field mouse, buttercups.
Art Prescription: Along my walk today.
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