Orange, red, and pink
Collaborate on summer
Color tour de force.
Art Prescription: I recently picked up a set of colored pencils from a tag sale. Yep! It’s addicting…
Index card with colored pencil and collage:
garden art
Petunias July 29, 2014
Hot bubblegum pink
Petunias spill outward
Wave to butterflies.
Art Prescription: This started as a watercolor pencil sketch in my garden on mixed-media paper. Then I took it into my studio and washed it down with water. I added watercolor loosely over pencil strokes and then spattered a bit! FUN!
Fresh Basil July 16, 2014
Freshly washed by rain
Nothing compares, sweet basil
For corn succotash.
Art Prescription: The scent of basil after a good summer rain is intoxicating. So I brought some inside to add to my fresh corn off-the-cob and tomato succotash.
Part of my mission for the Art Prescription is to encourage others to create. Keep an art journal, paint, or sketch. I’m developing some materials you can use in your next mix-media project available in my shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/beverlydyer?ref=l2-shopheader-name
Bucolic July 12, 2014
Bucolic landscape
Cosmos wind upwards, gold flags
Cone flowers stand guard.
Art Prescription: Rode Lacey today!! Meadow ride across freshly cut pastures, bucolic. Then home to sketch in my own garden. Grateful for this day.
Art Tools June 13, 2014
Bouquet of pencils
Fresh sharp points for delicate
An eye for details.
Art Prescription: As I survey my blooming garden, I’m amazed at nature’s patterns and details. Time to sharpen my colored pencils for some field sketching!!
Haiku September 1, 2013 Art Gift
Garden art fairy
Sketches and paints for shear bliss
A gift to stranger.
Art Prescription: I went to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens today to field sketch. Using pen and ink and watercolor pencils, I worked on 3 x 5 index cards. And as I finished one I gave it to the first person who came by.
Pregnant with Possibility August 26, 2013
He holds her steady
She carries eight months in front
Soon will be strolling!
Art Prescription: Ah, the life cycle…went to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens today to sketch. This time of year the flowers are starting to go to seed, preparation for a new spring, new plants. The shapes and textures of pods are interesting. At some point I shall do a study of pods. For now the flowers are still in bloom, and the butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds are abundant…heaven.
Sculpture August 24, 2013
Outdoor sculpture show
Metal works for the garden!
Hummer with fork wings!
Art Prescription: Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina are rich with talented artists! It’s always fun to see art done in a completely different medium! We bought several pieces for our garden and for gifts!
Haiku June 16, 2013 Recycle
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.
Haiku April 5, 2012
Dark, rich, earthy mulch
Seven cubic yards piled high
Time in the garden!!
Art Prescription: Worked my nursing job today and then came home to get dirt under my finger-nails in the garden. Besides doing art, nothing makes me happier than the fruitful labor of gardening. Plant flowers that inspire the muse!
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