Another commission for a daffodil….. It would seem as the summer draws to a close and cold winters loom on the horizon, people are already looking forward to seeing the wild daffodils in the midst of their spring bloom. When I think of yellow I think of my favourite poem by Wordsworth ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’, the colour of gold, butter, sunflowers, ripe lemons and of course carpets of daffodils.

And for those of you who have not yet met Wordsworth, here it is….

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
in such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
what wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Yellow Daffodil

Acrylic on canvas

40 X 40 X 4 cm

Palette: Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Cadmium yellow light, Cadmium orange, Cadmium red light, Hansa Yellow light, yellow ochre,  ultramarine blue, metallic yellow, pale olive green and greengold.

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