Bye February
With your snow and sleet, long walks
Peaceful in the woods.
Art Prescription: We enjoyed a long walk at Mason Farm today crunching in the still thick snow. Just me and my love…
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor, collage, pen and ink
collage
House Hunt February 23, 2015
Familiar song
He chortles from the tree top
Totally for her.
Art Prescription: Male birds know how to serenade the females. They sing their hearts out just to get her interest. Sweet! Blue birds start their romance in February.
Collage and colored pencil on an envelope.
Farm Chores February 22, 2015
Hair salted with hay
Muddy hand-prints adorn pants
Makings of happy!
Art Prescription: I love being out at the farm in the morning with the horses. They greet me close to the gait waiting for their breakfast. Fresh hay is very exciting. The cardinals are singing and the clouds break into sunshine.
Pen and ink and collage:
Safe at Home February 10, 2015
Home security
Safe and sound, family nest
Rumpled sheets, and warm!
Art Prescription: Envelope art…
NaHaiWriMo February 5, 2015
It’s National Haiku Writing Month!! So here’s a little art for you, my readers, to write a haiku to. Ready, set, GO! I can’t wait to see what you write!
Winter Sun February 4, 2015
And grace, we humans
With power and knowledge to
See the winter sun.
Art Prescription: We see, but do we notice?
Index card, colored pencil, pen and ink, collage
Journal Prompt February 2, 2015
Quite simply where will
Lonely dreaming take you now?
No need for a map.
Art Prescription: I recently heard a talk about boredom. Because we are all so plugged in constantly, we allow no time for loneliness or boredom. And boredom may be where great ideas come from!! The mind, quiet from distraction, listens to the creator within. Voila! A dream is born…
Index card art…
Bird Style February 1, 2015
Blue Jays are scoopers
Chickadees sneak seed, fly off
Backyard birds show off.
Art Prescription: Guess it’s just rain, but my backyard birds were very active today. Fun to watch them establishing pecking order.
Collage, pen and ink and colored pencil.
Shopping January 27, 2015
City-fide red tail
Hawk perches on the mall sign
Beware country mice!
Art Prescription: Attention K-Mart shoppers…there’s a blue-light special on isle four. It always interests me how crowded the mall is on a week-day (yes I went to Target), and how generously American shoppers let go of their dollars. Need, want, have…
Index Card Art with Vintage Stamps
What are You Chasing? January 26, 2015
Running down a dream
We chase money, fame, fortune
Chance to simply bloom.
Art Prescription: To be at peace with yourself is to be at peace with others…What are we chasing? A flower plans a whole year just to bloom, if only for one day…
Mixed media…
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