Recycled papers
Cut out like paper-dolls, make
A junk mail garden!
Art Prescription: Here’s a mate for my last “junk mail garden” piece. A fun way to recycle, cut your junk mail up into shapes and paste onto a surface. I’m using watercolor here. Paint and highlight your cut flowers, and draw some stems and leaves, and now you have a garden.
June, wedding season
Months of planning, bride’s surprise
And so it begins!
Art Prescription: And hopefully for a long married life! Planning and orchestrating a wedding is a big deal. A fun, happy, albeit stressful occasion, for the biggest celebration of your life. Here’s my latest wedding invite design.
Creatures of the creek
A buzz with activity
Water rolls, rushes.
Art Prescription: “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” –Rumi
Redeeming factor
Occurs daily, harmonic
Serendipity!
Art Prescription: Sometimes you meet the right people at the right time and the right place!! Serendipity!!
The spiral of life
Layers of experience
Forms the whole one you!
Art Prescription: Our experiences and genetics make up who we are and how we perceive the world around us. Relationships and communication are much more complicated than we think. Best we can do is to try and love each other through it all…
Dark storm front sweeps in
Meadow moves, chaotic waves
June rain soaks garden.
Art Prescription: Watching a rolling storm front move in is miraculous. Clouds constantly changing, wind picks up, temperature drops. The smell of rain coming…quick…go inside! Downpour.
Momma Mockingbird
Hunts, swoops, digs, catches fresh chow
Fledglings shrill in bush!
Art Prescription: The amount of fledgling raucous going on right now points to the constant job of parenting. I recognize the shrill cries of different species waiting in hiding for their next treat. Until they know how to forage on their own, baby birds are nurtured along by both parents.
Butterfly garden
Grows, thick, wild along roadside
Iron weed, thistle.
Art Prescription: The “weeds” along highways and country roads provide sweet nectar for butterflies!!
Bring summer inside
Clip ripe colorful bouquets
Enjoy May roses!!
Art Prescription: A fresh bouquet out of my rose garden! This is painted very loosely. Don’t feel overwhelmed to get to all the detail. Just capture their essence with a quick pen sketch, color with watercolor, re-pen for detail, add some watery background…Be thrilled with your May roses!! Change your mood, your energy, in 20 minutes…go ahead try it!!
Side by side they walk
One carries pole, other net
Summertime fishing.
Art Prescription: I have many fish tales from my summers at grandma’s. Not a worry in the world, we’d head off to a relative’s pond with a tub of earth worms and a bamboo pole. Truth is the last time I went fishing was when I “hooked” my date’s head…yep I set the hook!! Now my husband, we don’t fish. We rode back to Chapel Hill, hook and line in tow, to have a physician friend excise the hook. I guess my years of summers in the country, my attempt to show – see I’m an outdoors kind-of -girl, did not make a grand impression. He married me anyways!!
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