clouds a problem. Lay in bed watching the sky lighten - my picture has to be sunset not sunrise I think - good clouds so took dog for long walk. Very tempting to incorporate the wolves and suchlike that were in the sky but the picture is already too busy. But maybe.
Woke in the night from a dream where the roundabout hen was free and chasing me -!- funny, not a nightmare. Then a voice - I wrote it down - "Worlds with worlds. Held by the breath of God". Cant remember timbre or gender of voice.
Realised that I've never been on a roundabout. Want to know what music they play. The only roundabout from my childhood was in infancy and it was a lampshade that Stafford made me. It was of crinkly stiff translucent pink plastic stuff, perhaps supposed to look like velum? Textured anyway. Inside that were shapes of horses that were attached to a fan that sat over the lightbulb. When the bulb warmed up it turned the fan and the horses revolved.
Since the changes to ballerina and bishop there is too much green at the edges of the painting. Thought for a while about putting in more hens or some horses and now think I shall wait till all the frilly stuff and landscape are finished then put in a brass rail barrier around it. Emphasis on the prison of the world.
Later; took a break to go life drawing and glad of it... new model, Micheala, Czechoslovakian , young, stocky and quite impossibly naked. Perhaps because her hair is cropped. Or because it was her first time. She was good, could hold a pose, didn't do anything tricky but managed to be interesting. Which is more than be said for the product, sadly, though (as is now normal) the last one came off. Lunch now, late, hungry, back to studio anon.
Later still; working under artificial light is bad, the colours are pasty and flat. Reaching a point where the lightbulbs have to go in, ugh, can I print them? Use a sponge to make a shiney round thing? Indeed I can, but not till the sky is done.
Have cleaned palette and brushes and pots and plan to go to Carcassonne tomorrow and look at the carousel there. Celebrating with a glass of wine, time for a break. Cleanse the mind. Its pretty stupid, this whole thing.
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