jan 24th 2014 Friday

Not a lot going on in the studio, spent yesterday reaching a point where I could hoover the floor - hasn't been done for a couple of years - even cleaned up cobwebs off the roof, feeling guilty. Dali recommends using them in the painting.
Now the place is too big to enter.
My head is full of rubbish:) Real, proper nonsense. Decided to remove all remembrance of the T of the G from my brain as much as I could and succeeded. The void is filled with meaningless babble. (really. Chants of names of people Ive forgotten, self-castigation epithets, bits of horrid songs. Often out loud)

In the meantime in studio 2, have nearly finished the head of the household god (below) I've been fiddling with for years and started the vellum drawing - coated it in clay slip, drawn in charcoal and will scratch the image in. Plan to wash off clay and charcoal and work with the scratches. Nice; skin, earth, burnt tree - water - we'll see how it pans out.

The ignored painting, meantime, will also be scraped. There's too much paint on it. Will scratch some off. But only when bone dry. A while off.