Nestled in the leaves
One stem at a time, then bloom
Fiddleheads salute.
Art Prescription: With my sketchbook and a box of colored pencils, I headed off to the North Carolina Botanical Garden in search of the ephemeral wildflowers.
Art Journal with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Guests show up early
The ice sculpture is melting
Jazz band plays softly.
Art Prescription: Delicate blooms brave an early debut.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor with colored pencil
Ephemeral sketch
Two friends, one quilt, wildflowers
Sun-hats and magic.
Art Prescription: Into the garden we did go! With our sun-hats, colored pencils, and a sense of hope. Wildflowers we did find, along with cures for the common soul!!
Pen and Ink and Colored Pencil
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!!
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