skyward glances

walking into the wind.....scuttling clouds............mares tails prancing...........looking skyward................marvelling natures beauty.....

self portrait

todays lesson was a self portrait.....most people are photographers....but my desire is to practise painting so this is a idea from another course done last year.

take your pencil and paper...close your eyes and do not open whatever!!!

with one hand follow the contours of your face and draw what you feel onto the paper..no peaking now!!!

i go around a few times building up marks and lines

when you feel you have done enough open your eyes and see the results....

it is always fascinating

you can also use any other medium..say coloured markers, and change the colour a few times..go on have a go!!

poem

art again...

...in an attempt to get me working on my painting again i have joined an art course.....day 3

..we have just danced a yoga dance workshop to get our creative juices flowing....the dog is bemused and the floorboards have developed a sinister creak....watch this space....

blackbird sings...

today i realised a few things

if someone you look after is depressed its not your fault just give the pills time to work and hang on in there

warm air blowing through open windows makes my heart sing

clematis montana smells wonderful but lasts only seconds when picked for a vase

planting seeds stirs something old and ancient in me

joy is watching a blackbird pick worms for her family from my newly turned compost

what makes your heart sing?