Chinese brush painting

Warblers May 11, 2015

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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

IIndex card Prothonotary think it’s a Prothonotary Warbler.

Watercolor Trees: Expressive Painting May 3, 2015

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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:

Trees expressive blown

Blown trees with sumi-ink and watercolor.

Trees expressive

Loose wet into wet watercolor trees.

Backyard May 1, 2015

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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”

Backyard squirrel

Time Management March 9, 2015

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Busy to-do list

A chance to wear many hats

Hour by hour.

Art Prescription:  Off to a busy Monday. I’ve been out to the farm caring for my Finn 6 out of the last 7 days. He is doing very well. Days are long, life is short… We painted feathers in todays art studio workshop.

Feathers class