Tremble in their frame
Delicate ephemerals
Up from frozen ground.
Art Prescription: About now the banks of creeks are full of blooming Trout Lilies. I adore their delicate nodding heads.
Watercolor 8 1/2 x 11 ( flower drawn and painted at 4x)
trout lily
Warm Studio March 7, 2014
Warm studio waits
For fairies who pack their bags
To reign the woodlands.
Art Prescription: Working on some woodland fairies. Hard to decide if I want to go realistic or animated or somewhere in the middle. Love the idea of spring wildflowers with pretty, dainty fairies!!
Haiku March 31, 2013 Trout-lily
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.
Haiku February 25, 2012
Satin Trout Lily’s
Nod their dainty heads up out
Of winter’s brown dirt.
Art Prescription: Went on a long walk today, even though chilly and windy, over to the botanical gardens. One of the first ephemeral wildflowers to bloom are the Trout Lily’s. They are so cheerful and quiet, but bold. They come up and shine when winter winds are still chilling. Rise up…be bold!
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