23 01 2026

 Here's a done one...

22 01 2026

 Finished one, pleased... woke up raring for the next to find Bob seriously incapacitated. Might get a few hours in later.

19 01 2026

 Poddling on. Sundry interruptions but mostly plain sailing. Rediscovered the iridescent paints, so changes in the copying but an improvement IMHO.

17 01 2026

 

Enjoying this copying so much!! Might start more - or find other paintings not done with - to copy

and in the meantime, for a variety of reasons, was painting the expulsion from Eden. Doing a snake. And this weird shadow arrived on the  ceiling!

Its only the shadow of a light bulb but hey -

14 01 2026

 - I seem to be back working. 

The drawings for Maths book have to wait for lead author to recover from eye op before I find out next stage.  (=more, less, appropriate?)

The three pictures in process are trucking on...

12 01 2026

 Def cheering up. Got the Stafford thing finished and OK'd by 2 brothers, which is enough; got 10 drawings done for the maths book; started on a painting or two which are delighting me.

The painting is a pic that is sold but a friend who wanted it has agreed that a copy, along the same lines, is acceptable. It was a picture I wasn't quite ready to part with so want a copy for me and a copy for friend. No doubt problems loom but for the moment quite happy :)

04 01 2026

 Only 1,000 words to go- been writing a chapter for Staffords festschrift which is both impossibly hard and occasionally a surprising pleasure. Many anxieties. 

First that springs to mind is that l am not a writer. The piece is clunky and chichi and will have to have lots of attention before it goes out. Second is that combing my memories is distressing.

And my planned book is receding; further research, extensive and deep (ha!)  reveals that my approach is not that original. Who's it for? Not longer interested.

Embracing failure, wahey! V liberating.