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.
Sky returns to blue
Group of Scarlet Tanagers
Striking red, black wings.
Art Prescription: Spent my morning at the farm. On and off rain. Late day walk at Mason Farm and lots of birds. Scarlet Tanagers glow in the green canopy.
Index card with colored pencil
Field crickets chirp, court
Call out for a female mate
Wind carries their song.
Art Prescription: Ending my week sitting in the middle of a field with horses and crickets. Most of the song you hear from crickets are the males serenading the females…sound familiar? And it’s their wings that make the sound not their legs. Beautiful to just sit and listen to the breeze, a couple of cardinals, sounds of horses chomping grass, and a distant caw of crows.
Art Journal Sketchbook
Ephemeral sketch
Two friends, one quilt, wildflowers
Sun-hats and magic.
Art Prescription: Into the garden we did go! With our sun-hats, colored pencils, and a sense of hope. Wildflowers we did find, along with cures for the common soul!!
Pen and Ink and Colored Pencil
Swarm of honey bees
The weight on a new spring branch
Queen rules colony.
Art Prescription: Saw this on my walk today. So amazing and beautiful. Swarming behavior only occurs in spring when the Queen Bee decides to start a new colony and leaves with thousands of worker bees in search of a new nest. Meanwhile they swarm in unexpected places.
Bye brown, step aside
Green, it’s your turn to shine bright
Cover the meadows.
Art Prescription: Spring abundance makes the dull browns of winter worth it.
Index card with colored pencil:
Intricate pattern
These creatures who take to flight
Feathers, part of wings.
Art Prescription: My favorite subject lately is feathers. So beautiful, so purposeful…
Watercolor and colored pencil 8 1/2 x 11
Birds sing at daybreak
The dark recedes, a new day
Long weekend mornings.
Art Prescription: Waking to my own rhythm is bliss.
Watercolor and pen and ink
Country roads a-glow
Redbuds and purple nettle
Make springs announcement.
Art Prescription: I love meandering on country roads…
8 1/2 x 11 Watercolor pencil on hot-pressed paper
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