We drank Prosecco
At the barn, as we waited
For the horse trailer.
Art Prescription: A new horse arrived at the farm today. A beautiful “flea bitten” mare, which means she is white and dappled in grey. The hauler was late due to Memorial Day traffic, but this little beauty got off the trailer calm as could be. She ate grass while the geldings stood at attention in a cloud of excited dust.
Art Journal – pen and ink field sketch
To raise today’s youth
Takes a lot of nurture and
A fresh worm or two.
Art Prescription: Fledgling birds everywhere peeping for food.
Index card with colored pencil and college:
Wild woodsy perfume
Yellow honeysuckle vines
Unruly tangle.
Art Prescription: Walked Mason Farm. The woods are heady with the scent of honeysuckle. This invasive vine winds itself around anything standing. Maybe we dismissed it’s misbehavior because it’s so fragrant.
Index card with colored pencil
Cornflower species
Worn on a date to test love
Bachelors Button.
Art Prescription: Folklore says if a Bachelors Button is pinned on and stays fresh it is true love.
Index card, colored pencil, collage
The queen of the farm
Watches over her herd and
The makings of milk.
Art Prescription: I drive past Mapleview Dairy on my way to see Finn. I love seeing the cows grazing in the pasture.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
Cookie on the farm
She provides the dipping milk
Chocolate and cream.
Art Prescription: Fearrington Village, not far from Chapel Hill, has a herd of these Belted Galloway cows. They also have goats with the same coloring.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
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
I
think it’s a Prothonotary Warbler.
Bird watcher mission
Hunting with binoculars
Wait! Do you see that?
Art Prescription: Great birding morning at Mason Farm: Indigo Bunting, Common Yellow-Throat, Red-Eyed Vireo, and a Barred Owl!!
Index card sketch – gestural
Under the shade tree
Cows, sheep, and goats roam, while the
Farm tells us stories.
Art Prescription: A day for all the senses. Blue skies with puffy white clouds, the smell of fresh hay and grass, lambs bah, a red apple to eat, the feel of a wooden picnic table. Field sketching at Hogan Farm.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
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:
Blown trees with sumi-ink and watercolor.
Loose wet into wet watercolor trees.
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