Fall wildflowers bloom
Dot the meadows and woods for
Butterflies to feed.
Art Prescription: Hiked Mason Farm this past weekend. Beautiful wildflowers and lots of butterflies. Feeds my muse.
Here is a little drawing for you to color! You can print it off and color with your favorite art tools! Secret…I’m working on a new Art Prescription (™) adult coloring product…due out October!
Index card with pen and ink:
Sea of energy
Red irises bold and brave
Not fair-weathered friends.
Art Prescription: Positive energy begets positive energy! Being with the horses is the best reminder of this truth. Who and where you spend your precious energy can really have an impact on your life. Surround yourself with positive people and see how your days, week, and years become happier and more balanced. Weeds can take over a neglected garden. Our thoughts and energies are the same. We have to constantly observe and weed!
Alcohol ink on photo paper (I am digging these alcohol inks!!!)
A world of beauty
Yet each sunflower is fine
And perfectly blooms.
Art Prescription: Why do we humans have such a hard time blooming…recognizing our beautiful parts and strengths and individual differences? Can we take a lesson from the garden where each bloom just reaches for the sun? Cause it’s a short journey this one livid life. So my friends go out there and bloom!!
Alcohol ink and pen:
She glides in the cool
Vast blue-green ocean, eggs laid
Her work on shore, done.
Art Prescription: Today I honor the Sea Turtle.
Sea turtles spend most of their lives in the water. Like salmon, they will return to the same nesting grounds at which they were born. When females come to the shore they dig out a nest in the ground with their back flippers, bury their clutch of eggs and return to the ocean. After hatching, the young may take as long as a week to dig themselves out of the nest. They emerge at night, move toward the ocean and remain there, solitary, until it is time to mate.
Alcohol ink, watercolor, and pen and ink:
Cone flower buffet
Acrobatic feats for seed
Lively Gold Finches.
Art Prescription: Seeing my garden go to seed does evoke a slight melancholy… that summer is stepping aside for fall. Soon the beautiful colors of the flowers will be replaced by showy fall leaves. Each season has it’s own gift. For now I’m enjoying watching the birds find a harvest feast among my Echinacea.
Ball point pen sketch with colored pencil:
Fabric from Paris
She flows with tide, girl with the
Yellow umbrella
Art Prescription: Girl on the beach take 3…or I lost count. Not satisfied with the final watercolor, again my colors muddy. So I paper collaged with torn pieces from other not so great watercolors. I kind of like the mixed media end product. A good example of how no work is ever wasted. I save every piece that should be filed in the trash. And weeks or months later I see that piece has the perfect color I need for a collage…let her rip!!
Watercolor background with torn paper:
We all are story
Shaped by our past, what we are
Listen, you will hear.
Art Prescription: The shear act of listening is an art. In our push a button hyped up world of texting and immediate gratification, do we really take the time to listen to others? I love my gadgets… and I also love slowing down at the farm with the horses. Really nice.
Alone in garden
She bends and grows, taking her
Place in the big world.
Art Prescription: Each bloom brave and important.
Red gerber daisies
Highlight in August garden
Truly late bloomers.
Art Prescription: And that’s okay. Better to bloom late than not at all.
Colored pencil on index card:
Tangle of flowers
Deep in the field where sunlight
Plays on soft petals.
Art Prescription: What a fun time I had today playing with alcohol inks with my art group! Thank you Farley, who hosted and provided all the new and fun supplies to experiment with. We used photo paper, alcohol, and alcohol inks. For an hour or more there was not a sound except for a, “wow.” We dripped, sprayed, doodled, and watched as our works took on a life of their own. Not for the exact of heart! Alcohol inks are discovery at its best!! A great tool to have in your Art Prescription cabinet.
Alcohol ink on photo paper:
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