Haiku May 31, 2013 May Roses

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!!

May roses

Haiku May 29, 2013 Fly By

Glistening water

Jets towards bird bath, hummer flies

Darts in, out of stream!

Art Prescription:  This time of year requires daily refilling bird bath. While spraying clean water in the bath, and also watering newly planted impatiens, a hummingbird darted through stream. So fast! Just getting a quick shower!  Here’s a sneak peek at some new check designs…

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Haiku May 28, 2013 Smell of Grease Paint

Scent of fresh cedar

Brand new possibilities

Unwrap white canvas.

Art Prescription:  Like actors who love “the smell of grease paint,” I love the smell of a new canvas. Cedar is often used to make stretcher bars for canvas. So when I unwrap a fresh white canvas my studio becomes scented with possibilities!!

Bird_Collection-2

Haiku May 27, 2013 Object Desire

Things lost and then found

One’s trash, another’s treasure

Objects of desire.

Art Prescription:  Two scenarios here. One, my hand-painted stool will be found tomorrow in an assortment of boxes at Goodwill, or two, some child is laughing at their new silly cat and mouse stool! Why do we humans get so attached to inanimate objects? My husband who is a get things done kind-of-guy, most of the time an excellent trait, inadvertently took my beloved field-sketching stool to the Goodwill. I’m wrangling with thoughts of a child loving their new object, and mourning the loss of MY STOOL! MINE! Okay, so this is where my years of yoga and practicing letting go might really come in handy, MINE! Sometimes all the practice in the world doesn’t equate to our humanly notions of hanging on, letting things define our life, getting stuck and not moving on, learning to share…

object desire

Haiku May 23, 2013 Corn on Cob

Fresh sweet corn on cob

Pale yellow kernels of good

Wears a fancy cap!

Art Prescription:  Fresh corn has arrived. Tonight I’m making a corn, tomato, fresh basil succotash, along with a mushroom mixed cheese wrap. Quick watercolor pencil sketch of my corn.

corn on cob

 

Haiku May 17, 2013 Real Friends

Ode to real girlfriends

True, honest fashion advice

Hold hand, jump with you!!

Art Prescription:  I leave soon to New York for Surtex! EEkk!.. Oddly I’m pretty calm. But that’s thanks to my very good friend who has walked me through this week on many levels. Long walks in our neighborhood, helped me load my new (wink) Ipad with my portfolio, and finally sat while I tried on multiples of outfits to determine which ones are right for the show. Deep and great bows to you my friend!! You know who you are. Wine and report of show in our near future!!

envelope flowers III