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Art from the Heart
Ink and watercolor by Harry Motro. Art can reach places words cannot. Start with the twelve-picture message below, then wander into the creative process and the virtual galleries.
A message, in twelve pictures
Read it top to bottom. It starts where a hard day starts and ends where I hope you land. Each picture is an ink line drawing with watercolor flowers.
1. Too many tears?
Two faces, one weeping, and flowers growing from the other.
2. Rain everywhere?
A figure under an umbrella crowned with flowers while the rain falls.
3. Struggling to hang on?
A figure bent like a tree in the wind, flowers on every branch.
4. Don't like what you see?
A figure facing a mirror, with a single flower on the reflection.
5. Let us give you a hand
An open hand with a flower on each fingertip, beside a face.
6. To be seen, even when different
A figure with a vase of flowers for a head, seen by another.
7. To be heard, even when it's hard
Two faces connected by a line of flowers.
8. To share love
A figure offering a cup of flowers to another.
9. To feel love
A child riding on a parent's shoulders, arms wide.
10. To spread love
A row of people of every height, flowers growing from each of them.
11. To fulfill dreams
A sleeper whose dream is a cloud full of flowers.
12. To find peace
A dove resting on a head crowned with flowers.
Creative process
A peek at how the drawings happen. Pen first, then water and color. See the sketchbooks, the studio, and the way a line turns into a flower. Go to the studio.
Virtual galleries
Paintings, sculptures, and drawings: the larger body of work, room by room. Browse the galleries.
I would love to hear from you.