Daffodils

This weekend was supposed to be 'Daffodil Days' in St. Michaels. Thousands of bulbs have been planted in the past couple of years. There is yellow everywhere. Store keepers and homeowners were encouraged to decorate  - prizes were to be given for the best displays. In the past, there was a parade showing off specially decorated hats and dressed up dogs...

Many of our art league plein air painters were poised and ready to paint all around town during the festivities on Saturday. And then came... COVID-19! So many people are disappointed...and frightened.

My Tuesday painting group hasn't met for awhile (we have been social distancing for a few weeks) and have been feeling disconnected. One of our group suggested that we all focus on a common subject and then share our work on line. Our theme for this week was daffodils.

Tuesday morning came and there was a flood of emails and texts. Some of us were posting one place and trying to join in critiques. Others were texting and my computer was pinging with conversations. It was a little crazy, but fun to be connected.

For future critiques, we are exploring some other options of being together.

It was interesting to see how differently each of us had treated our assignment. Lots of vases of flowers or a single blossom.

I was working on being connected so I offered a bunch of daffodils...  This is called "For you"

Next week's suggestion is to look around us - we are observing the 6' rule. Draw, sketch, paint what you see close by. Someone commented that we might better appreciate the things we take for granted.