Current Sway, 2014 - Michaela Harlow – 10″ x 16″, pastel on paper (12″ x 18″)

The coming week promises to be a hectic one. I have so many gardens to install that it’s downright ridiculous, and the rainy weather has thrown a monkey wrench into my schedule. Although I worked half a day outside the studio —planting  trees for a landscape design client on a boney site— I spent my early morning hours working on this piece: Current Sway.

It was almost dark by the time I returned from work, and I was tired and dirty. But this magical moment —sunlight streaming through the dogtrot and blossoming Halesia in late light— still caught my eye . . .

 Evening at my Vermont studio

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