Got holiday blues?
Cope with creativity!
Draw, paint, write, journal!
Art Prescription: As the year comes to close I come full circle with the intention of the Art Prescription. Creativity is healing. Making art boosts your feel good hormones and makes your immune system stronger. So…while you are making your new years resolution list…add something creative, like keeping a daily journal. Go ahead. Buy something pretty and just start! It will do your spirit good!
Steady streams of leaves
Twirl to ground, still warm fall air
Autumn’s subtle move.
Art Prescription: Warm day, but Autumn sneaks in.
Busy, busy, bees
Yo-yo over red bee balm
Fill up on the sweet.
Art Prescription: Idyllic July day. Spent most of it outside admiring my garden and then walked over to the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The abundance of flowers is intoxicating.
Tweets, chirps, caws, tweedles.
Fresh out of nest, kids holler
Shake and flap for food!
Art Prescription: Seems everywhere I look I see a youngster begging for food. Diligently, the parents feed and teach, here’s how you dig for yourself.
Fifty shades of blue
Voluptuous big blossoms
My hydrangea!
Art Prescription: My neighbors hydrangeas, 15 feet away, are pink. Dazzling. Both beautiful.
Grand magnolias
Scent historical gardens
Century old trees.
Art Prescription: We rode our bikes to a historic property that has been transformed into a school of business here at UNC. The property has an air of elegance, and I love how they turned the old horse stables and pool into a modern day retreat. The formal gated garden contains the graves of the late, late owners…serene.
Clarity… moment
Heart pulls, body answers, go
Follow your heart strings!!
Art Prescription: Ever stand staring out a window…feeling pulled to do something, go somewhere, answer the heart? What if it’s chasing an owl?
Spring floral perfume
Wisteria and lilac
The air smells purple.
Art Prescription: If you go for a walk this time of year, you will surely get wafts of fragrant blossoms. Oooohh what is that?!?
Big, round, lush orange
Sits with company, blue bowl.
Dose, vitamin C!
Art Prescription: Sometimes art is right in front of your eyes in the many still-life’s in your home. Colored pencils are wonderfully uncomplicated and portable. You simply draw with them, wet with a brush, and the colors blend and come to life. You can also actually dip the pencil into water to make really vibrant marks. Get some and play…play is good!
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…
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