In Spirit January 3, 2015

Farm sanctuary

Fresh air, a religion

Horses my teachers.

Art Prescription:  I’ve spent much of my holiday time out at the farm. It occurs to me that I’m learning patience, tolerance, and that throwing bales of hay to horses is extremely therapeutic!! Lovely views…

Art Journal Collage.

art journal farm

Right Now January 1, 2015

Bright white moon and stars

Follow a perfect blue sky

New year and new day!

Art Prescription:  Pretty loose resolutions here at the Art Prescription.  Just think we should all be…whatever makes you most happy. That is where your authentic self lives. So go ahead, be that! Happy New Year!!

index card moon

Per Thoreau December 30, 2014

Direction of dreams

Success in common hours

A life imagined.

Art Prescription:  2014 is rolling out…2015 is rolling in. What successes in unexpected common hours do you desire? What endeavors and dreams do you have?

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of dreams, and endeavors to live the life imagined, she/he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

-Henry David Thoreau

8 1/2 x 11 watercolor

marsala gown 3

Thick Fog December 23, 2014

A deep thick grey fog

Settles across open field

A flock of geese graze.

Art Prescription:  There is something soothing about fog. The way it just lazily lingers…making everything a bit out of focus. To stand in tree pose in yoga I find a soft gaze most beneficial. When I try too hard…my balance gets all out of whack. Perhaps we don’t always need to see so clearly!! A little bit softer now…

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Colored pencil on index card.

Spirit of Christmas Past December 22, 2014

Christmas tangerines

In a pretty box with nuts

Under grandma’s tree.

Art Prescription:  The holidays can be rough. Seems family dynamics are amplified. The world is spinning too fast. And most of us just want it to be over so our lives can get back to normal. Did our grandparents feel this way? I have some pretty super memories of simple gifts of fruit and nuts under my grandmother’s multi-colored light tree. I think we expect way too much out of ourselves!! Go easy…

Index card

index card christmas past