Joe Pye Weed, Rattlesnake Weed ~ "Nature's Cure" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor

There is no bird in this one -- the plants are the whole story, and both of them carry old healing lore. Joe Pye Weed rises in tall mauve clouds at the edge of late-summer meadows, humming with butterflies and bees, named in the old stories for a healer who used it. Rattlesnake weed was one of the country remedies people once trusted. Together they make a field that has always been, in its own way, nature's medicine.

There is a real cure in a morning spent out here -- the air, the sound, the slow attention -- and that quiet mending is what I was after, not a literal apothecary. I painted it wet-on-wet, in layers, with no drawing first, letting the mauve of the Joe Pye Weed go soft and deep so the whole field feels like it is breathing.

An original watercolor on paper, one of a kind. 'Nature's Cure' -- a late-summer field full of old remedies and the quiet good of standing in it.

Materials:  Each watercolor original is unique, the only one of its kind. Created on 300lb Arches Watercolor Paper with Japanese Sumi-é watercolor paint designed to last a lifetime.

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