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Yesterday several friends and I went to River Farm in Alexandria, VA. We met each other in Sara Linda Poly and Bobbi Pratte's classes at the Art League School, and as we are passionate about plein air painting, we formed a group. We paint outside once a week; some of us, more often than that. Summer in northern Virginia is not an ideal place for plein air painting with the temperature hovering around 90 degrees and about as high a humidity level as that. We were lucky when we went to the National Cathedral two weeks ago; we got lucky again yesterday. Painting gods--we appealed to all gods for a good weather (ha ha!)--have been kind to us!
I went down to the meadow, attracted by the sight of Queen's Anne's lace--my favorite wildflowers. I had about two hours available, so I got to work right away. After blocking in, I painted back to forward: the sky, Maryland, the Potomac River, a band of trees, the middle-ground wildflowers, then finally Queen Anne's lace. I took care with the trees to get their shapes right. Wildflowers, in contrast, were treated loosely as shapes. If you look at the photo carefully, there are a couple of kids runnning toward where I was sitting. As I was taking the picture, they suddenly appeared up the path and got captured forever!
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