Stand of winter trees
Survey the fields, barren now
New life lurks below.
Art Prescription: As fall turns to winter, I love the sculptural quality of winter trees.
watercolor trees
Gingko April 18, 2017
Good for memory
A cascade of shades of green
Gingko tree in spring.
Art Prescription: 8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
Enter Winter November 1, 2016
Cozy cloudy day
Made for comforters and cats
And hot chocolate.
Art Prescription: Not how I spent my day…well maybe the comforter and cat bit for a while. Went for a morning swim, worked on my Open Studio post card, and then Finn had a chiropractor appointment.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
Watercolor Trees: Expressive Painting May 3, 2015
Student, you teach me
Trust me to a blank paper
Then your muse responds.
Art Prescription: I taught a great class today at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens. It is a wonderful thing to encourage people to be expressive. To give adults permission to play and respond to the paint and not their brain can be a challenge. It always amazes me to see each person tap into their voice…
Here are my finished demonstration pieces:
Blown trees with sumi-ink and watercolor.
Loose wet into wet watercolor trees.
February Owl February 15, 2014
Perched in a pine bough
She turns and looks straight at me
February owl.
Art Prescription: On my evening walk I saw a hawk-shaped silhouette. Imagine my surprise and joy when I zoomed in with my binoculars and saw it to be a young owl. Owl medicine…
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