February 29, 2024
Green Thumb
We have extensive magnificent lush flower gardens, with select veggies intermixed, gracing our property in all directions during growing season every year … which are 99.9% in the wonderfully capable care of my husband Dave’s green thumb. I do occasional weeding.
Indoors, the drill is as follows. I tend most of our houseplants. I give each one water weekly, letting excess water drain thoroughly out the bottom of each pot. If a plant flourishes under those conditions, it stays. If not, buh-bye! Not all of them stay.
My flower arranging skills are at best entry-level.
But I am not a completely lost cause!
With paint and scissors and glue, I’m having fun developing green-thumb skills of greater note than enumerated above. Just look at this thriving whatever-it-is plant!
Scratching a Living From the Soil
3.5 x 5″; acrylic, ink, and collage on card stock
CutUp
2024
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8 responses to “Green Thumb”
I’m chuckling at the description of your relationship with plants…indoors and out. But you most certainly have an green thumb in the studio! This is beyond fabulous and I love every little thing about it! Those layered leaves…and that fractured red pot are spot on and that tiny purple and red spike part of the pot at the bottom stole my heart!
I’m adding this concept to my list of things to play with!!!
MaryAnn, oooo thank you. Love having you shine a light on the layered leaves, the fractured red pot, and the tiny purple and red spike part of the pot at the bottom. The pot was cut from a piece of exploratory art I created several years ago. The ‘fracture’ came when the size of the pot didn’t feel right so I just cut another piece to make it larger. The red spike came because I can’t discard scraps (I know you get what I’m talking about!).
I’m eager to see what your green thumb comes up with when you play with this concept : )
Sheila, thank you for your lively observations of the visual language in this piece.
Fabric sewn in place!—paper as fabric, pen as stitching.
Splotchy variegation!—accomplished because I wasn’t TRYING to create splotchy variegation.
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And yes, LOL!, this plant will never wither, never need repotting, never even need watering!
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