Cathedral of trees
Arches path, Purple Nettle
Covers ground. Bees buzz!
Art Prescription: At Mason Farm, “My” owl is still sitting in her stag (a “lively” dead tree). She nests in her hole by the creek as the sun crosses during the day. At night she hunts. My imagination thinks this would be a cool start to a nature book….just so magical to see!
Water feels like silk
Relish the quiet, just swim
Rhythm of the pool.
Art Prescription: Loud people and places drain me. After a while of sensory overload I feel you could bounce a quarter off my skin. The perfect antidote to re-balance myself is a swim! The steady strokes and silence of the water soothes my nervous system. And of course – expressive art journaling!
She hikes at the mall
Legs as long as a flagpole
The sport of shopping.
Art Prescription: For those of you who have been following my blog, you will see this is a radical departure from my usual ramblings about nature and the woods. For girls like me who actually prefer the woods to the mall…sometimes it’s good to take a walk on the “wild” side!!
New watercolor
Turquoise! Verve! blend of blue-green
A vase of flowers!
Art Prescription: I went to my favorite art-store today for canvases for a project I’m doing for UNC Hospitals. Of course no art-store expedition is complete without buying a new paint color! I bought a luscious turquoise and viola…flowers!
Twilight, forest wakes
Frogs rib-it, birds lullabye
Owls begin to prowl.
Art Prescription: Watching the sun go down and listening to the night-time creatures awaken is musical!
If Trout-lilys played
A musical instrument.
They’d be violins.
Art Prescription: One of the main reasons I like sketching live is to feel the personality of a plant. As a certified botanical illustrator, we were taught to tell the plant’s story. Get your sketchbook and go out and draw…think you can’t draw? Just let your hand follow your eye. Get your brain, and what you think you see out of the way….just follow the contours of the subject.
Faint from spring beauty
I grasp to take it all in
This one human life.
Art Prescription: Sometimes nature’s beauty overwhelms me. We hiked our favorite place Mason Farm Biological Preserve, and I went to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens to sketch!!
In the woods a nest
Made with down and feathers, waits
For newly laid eggs.
Art Prescription: A dance in the water…the male soars just above, lands with grace and ripples. The female is interested. Her nest is ready…
Spring pear-tree blossoms
Swirl to the ground like snow flakes
Blown about by March.
Art Prescription: The white-tops of spring blooming trees reminds me of snow.
A pen and paper
Expressive sketch, just capture
The essence of cat.
Art Prescription: Part of the Art Prescription philosophy is to encourage creativity any where, any time. Nothing has to be perfect, just play and have fun.
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