The museum, home to the world's most extensive collection of Tiffany works, plans to build the 10,000-foot addition to showcase some of his most spectacular pieces.For decades, the Morse kept in storage most of the Daffodil Terrace and many other pieces from Tiffany's Laurelton Hall, destroyed by fire in 1957.1 Vote(s)
Coast Radio Daffodils, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.
The Coast Radio website has picked my pic, again, to be their picture of the day. I’m pretty psyched. I know, no money, no fame… but hey, I don’t care. This is just cool to me. Makes me happy.
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I think one of my daffodils is pregnant? I’m aware their dead.
I’m pretty disappointed with this bunch. Sainsburys please explain yourselves? Morrisons has better daffodils than Sainsburys, how is this possible? I love Sainsburys, its failed me. It hid the fresh pasta from me the other day. I walked up and down the chilled [...]
Rob and I arrived midday yesterday and, having slept for 16 hours straight last night, we decided we’d go for a walk. Yes, it was sleeting, and yes, it was forecast to snow, and yes, we had come from 26 C weather in Brisbane. We’re tough (and stupid).
More tomorrow when I’m not jetlagged!
16×20″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com if interested in this painting.
Spring is on the way! This is a scene from Boscobel Restoration that I started a couple of years ago en plein air, but didn’t have time to finish on location. I pulled out the photo reference that I took at [...]
16×20″, oils on canvas covered hardboard
Please email me at JamieWG@aol.com if interested in this painting.
Spring is on the way! This is a scene from Boscobel Restoration that I started a couple of years ago en plein air, but didn’t have time to finish on location. I pulled out the photo reference that I took at [...]
"Daffodils" 14X12Oil On BoardAvailableI posted the nearly finished version earlier today...and then I promptly went to the easel and finished it more quickly than I thought...soooooo, here it is. Welcome to one little corner of my yard. I have lots and lots of these beauties and every spring they make me very happy!!! This was really challenging due to all of the leaves, but in the end I can say I had fun doing it. I am glad to have put down in paint a record of the beauty I get to see each year!!
"Daffodils" Oil on BoardIn Progress14X12Here is the progress so far today. Rocks, rocks, and more rocks. You have no idea how hard it is to dig in this yard. But as you can see, there is a reward!!!Pretending....what's it going to look like in the frame? Sometimes I can't wait, so I prop up a frame next to the painting and stand back while imagining the finished piece.
"Daffodils" In Progress14X12Oil on BoardRed clay and rocks may not be good for growing a lot of things, but I have lived here for nearly 24 years and every year the daffodils are faithful and trustworthy. They have multiplied and so has my appreciation for them. There are three or four different varieties, some yellow, some white, some yellow and white, and some just white. There is one kind that I think is called Narcissus that has double white petals and has the fragrance of heaven itself. In spite of frosts and weird weather, this year they are prolific as ever. I have often in years past urged myself to attempt a painting of them. Last year I did just one daffodil reclining on a cloth. This year's attempt, as you can see, is going to be just as I see them among the rocks and the
Cornish Daffodils, Cold Wind10in x 8in or 25.4cm x 20.3cmOil on canvas board.Another view of the daffodil fields in Cornwall. Weak spring sunshine barely takes the chill out of the wind but this bright yellow flower brings a warmth to the winter tired landscape and a promise of spring around the corner.Again, not for sale, off to a gallery, details to follow later.Please forgive the rubbish picture, I haven’t set up my painting photographing corner yet…like everything else, it seems to be taking an age. I am an impatient person so I must off and away to practice deep breathing and calming down things!
Cornish Daffodils10in x 8in or 25.4cm x 20.3cmOil on canvas board.Cornwall at this time of year is painted with broad sweeps of yellow as the daffodil fields flourish. Some fields have the hunched figures of the pickers, gathering armfuls of still green flowers in the cold winds of the early months. Other fields are left to bloom providing bulbs for the next year.This painting is going to a gallery in Cornwall (as long as they like it that is!) but I wanted to show it here because I feel as if I haven’t posted anything for so long. My group mail still isn’t working properly and everything seems to be at sixes and sevens. I am sure things will settle down soon but for now I feel as if I am keeping a low profile, something that I am not very used to!
Fair daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon;As yet the early-rising sunHas not attain'd his noon.Stay, stayUntil the hasting dayHas runBut to the evensong;And, having pray'd together, weWill go with you along.We have short time to stay, as you,We have as short a spring;As quick a growth to meet decay,As you, or anything.We dieAs your hours do, and dryAwayLike to the summer's rain;Or as the pearls of morning's dew,Ne'er to be found again.A constant theme of the songs written by Robert Herrick is the short-lived nature of life, the fleeting passage of time. We find a note of melancholy/sadness in his poem which arises out of the realization that beauty is not going to stay forever.In his poem "To Daffodils', the poet Robert Herrick begins by saying that we grieve to see the beautiful daffodils being wasted away very quickly. The duration of their gloom is so short that it seems even the rising sun still hasn't reached the noon-time. Thus, in the very beginning th
Although they only bloom in the springtime, daffodils are clearly an all-year-round favourite on peoples houses. While signs with flowers such as primroses and azalea are popular only during the bloom season, daffodil house signs are still being requested now, while the leaves are falling.
Here is a typical example, ordered by a customer in the US:
Have a look at some of the other flower designs on offer in our gallery.
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- A man walks through a field of daffodils, or narcissus flowers, on the first day of spring in the town of Lisse in the heart of the bulb growing district of the Netherlands, Wednesday March 21, 2007.
Daffodils and SunshineAbout This Painting:Filled with warmth and light, spring's most beautiful flowers, daffodils.Media: oilSize: 6 in X 8 in (15.2 cm X 20.3 cm)Price: $100How to Purchase:Price: $100Or, send me an email
I was out shooting the other day when a young lady approached me from behind and said “hello, … what are you shooting?”
I turned to see someone who looked like they might still be in college, with a photography vest on, 3 camera bodies and lenses, and a tripod.
I told her that I was shooting some of the daffodils.
She then says, … “they have been done to death!”
She then asks, … “do you honestly think that you can get something different?”
Now, I will not say where that conversation went to, … but needless to say, … her mind was made up!
I can choose to see this world of ours just like everyone else.
I can also choose to see it differently.
It is up to the photographer behind the camera & lens to decide if a certain subject has been “done to death!”
When you are out shooting this season, and come upon something that you have often seen in print or on the web, … still go ahead and shoot it.
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Dora's field, Rydal. photo: Tony Richards'....all at once I saw a crowdA host of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze 'From a Georgian Farmhouse- 3‘I fancy a drift of daffodils at the near end of the orchard’, said Mum. Her friend Margaret, who ran the Bellgarth Nurseries in Carlise gave her a large selection of daffodil and narcissus bulbs. ‘I’ll get Old Ernie to plant them on Saturday,’ said Mum (There were two Ernies - Ernie the Blacksmith, and Old Ernie who came to do the garden.)Old Ernie was a gardener of the ‘Municipal’ type; he liked things ‘just so’. Mum’s front borders were planted with neat and even rows of alternating allysum and lobelia, with scarlet salvias lined up behind them. Patriotic and oh so formal.‘Mmm…something a bit less...well... regimented would be nice,’ murmured Mum. But Old Ernie was in charge.Mum explained what she wanted for the daffs, and Old Ernie planted them.
I've been experimenting with some watercolours of daffodils, trying to keep them very loose. These are inspired by Jean Haines, a very talented artist. I'm not particularly happy with them, but I think this is a good exercise and, hey, they can only get better!
Daffodils are very easy to grow and easy to plant. Most daffodils bulbs can be bought at most nurseries and home improvement centers at the start of fall season because its the best time to plant daffodils. Find a sunny spot in your yard with lots of sunshine and has well-drained soil. Once you have the perfect spot to plant your daffodils, dig 3-4 inches diameter holes, or enough to fit each
Daffodils in a Striped Pot19cm x 27cm. 7.5 in x 10.6in.Oil on canvas boardIt is the 1st of March, St. David’s day, the daffodils are shouting out loud in the garden, brave ambassadors paving the way for spring. 70 pounds (UK) 137 dollars (USA) and 104 euros (Europe). This includes the postage.
Early Home Grown Daffodils ... Courtesy Of The Poly Tunnel
"A house with daffodils in it is a house lit up,
whether or no the sun be shining outside."
A.A. Milne
Although it's too early for blooming daffodils in the garden I was able to collect the first hand full of home grown daffs this weekend ... courtesy of those growing in tubs in the poly tunnel.
So much nicer than shop bought and with blooms unblemished by weather ideal to bring a bit of spring indoors ...
5x7 inchesacrylic on panelunframed115.00 includes shipping
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