Painting the Rye
Since today is Monday, my artist friends were scheduled to meet. Suzanne had received an honor by being asked by a local gallery owner to do a landscape painting with a group of locally well known artists and donate the painting to the Coastal Hospice on behalf of the gallery. So she wanted to practice painting marshes, as that is what she expected the group to paint.
The day turned out to be cloudy and the tide was low, not conducive to a good marsh painting, so we had to paint something else. As it happened, there were two fields of rye near her house. I had never seen rye up close, but today it had yellows and purples in it as well as greens and browns. It was absolutely lovely – especially with a little purple Vetch in it (a weed)! I don’t know if my painting will do the scene justice, but I had an interesting challenge!