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
expressive painting
Shade and Sketch May 4, 2015
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
Watercolor Trees: Expressive Painting May 3, 2015
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.
Coloring May 2, 2015
A walk in the woods
Spring wildflowers, pen and ink
For you to color!
Art Prescription: Today I did a set of three pen and ink wildflowers on index cards. I’d love to do an adult coloring book with wildflowers, feathers, and birds. https://www.etsy.com/listing/232055127/adult-coloring-wildflower-index-cards?ref=shop_home_active_1
Pen and ink on index cards
Backyard May 1, 2015
Squirreling away seed
Little “hands” work to gather
Sunflower seed pet.
Art Prescription: It’s hard to feed the birds and not the squirrels. They are master-minds at breaking bird feeders. So I enjoy watching their acrobatic antics.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 watercolor and chop that says “hope”
Buddies April 30, 2015
Among buttercups
Two buddies graze on spring grass
Sumptuous meadow.
Art Prescription: Finn has a new buddy, Digby. They follow one another out in the open grass.
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 watercolor
Old Barn April 28, 2015
Framed by a fence line
The old barn can tell stories
About time before.
Art Prescription: I’ve been driving by this barn for years. Here before all the traffic and houses, here when life was simpler. She stands in a field documenting her stories.
Watercolor
Scarlet Tanager April 26, 2015
Sky returns to blue
Group of Scarlet Tanagers
Striking red, black wings.
Art Prescription: Spent my morning at the farm. On and off rain. Late day walk at Mason Farm and lots of birds. Scarlet Tanagers glow in the green canopy.
Index card with colored pencil
Northern Parula April 25, 2015
Northern Parula
Steady song in the forest
Lulled by the soft rain.
Art Prescription: Early hike at Mason Farm and the rain caught us. It was quite peaceful walking under the canopy of trees while the rain pitter-pattered on leaves.
Collage, colored pencil and graphite:
Crickets April 24, 2015
Field crickets chirp, court
Call out for a female mate
Wind carries their song.
Art Prescription: Ending my week sitting in the middle of a field with horses and crickets. Most of the song you hear from crickets are the males serenading the females…sound familiar? And it’s their wings that make the sound not their legs. Beautiful to just sit and listen to the breeze, a couple of cardinals, sounds of horses chomping grass, and a distant caw of crows.
Art Journal Sketchbook
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