29 06 2016 Weds

 Drawing on Monday - Mamadu modelling, hes good and I found it hard not to  focus on the obvious and to kitch him up - thats pretty much ALL I've done for an age as Im trying to get images over  to the Gallery for August and the technology is defeating me. Ounouh wont use drop box and hotmail wont send large files. Guess its a stick then... though about to try gmail account.

25 06 2016 sat

good even grey light for painting, this got finished despite the humidity. Three other little ones on the go... got into a mess over one,  Fortune Teller. I'm encouraged by most of it. The eponymous heroine is sucking in time and expelling dreams. Unfortunately it reads as if shes farting, sigh.

21 06 2016 tuesday

Finished, lala; can't do more. Really difficult to photgraph on account of the irredesscent paints but there it is. Finished also (I think) a little one I like ... pallette cleaned off. Got tomorrow clear. Might, might not, work. Theres little I can do at this late stage for the August show so if I havent got them now, then the show is cancelled. Past caring.

20 06 2016 Monday

woken up knowing exactly what to do here - I re-dreamt the scene and the harness was red. Need some fiddling with foreground, some tweaking of faces and then its away.
However... this morning I'm off to La Claranda to take down the show there. This afto and evening are clear.

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finished - ####~~~~ to continue seems some sort of vanity, fiddling for its own sake. Its a straighforward idea, clearly expressed. Enugh. Gone back to the Dark Horse which needs serious reworking but not now. When I got back from La Claranda - where nothing had sold and the air was triste - fell into an hours deep sleep. Got up too early, probably. Bathtime now and have been asked out to dinner, hurrah. Want to forget everything for a while.

16 06 2016 Thursday

A few on the go, a few begining - theres more that I havent snapped - the house is empty for a few days  but today is housework...

Having trouble with this as the relationship with Simon more and more enters it. The rest are just begining

14 06 2016 Tuesday

finished, will never touch again - amazing, it looks so throwaway and its taken weeks... now to finish Night Horse. Opening Ceremony coming on.

12 06 2016 Sunday

Knocked out the christian symbolism - it didnt work - changed it to a simple pagan thang. Note to self to avoid laborious theological references in the future. 

Nearly done. The Dark Horse is getting harder and the Opening Night is just established. Bought 8 little -smaller, anyway - canvases that are gesso'd and ready to go. This afternoon and the next 2 days are clearish.

08 06 2016 Weds

 Brother-in-law arrived and much to do - but had a clear day and two mornings to get this far, plus another called The Opening Ceremony. The above Mama Terre is a pagan reinterpretation of the christian goddess - or will be  - and below is a walker with a black horse who has turned into my little brother, who wanted to grow up to be a horse.
Both are dreams that Ive not been able to shake...

05 06 2016 Sunday

Guests, holidays, good idea - at least 2 new ideas growing quietly away. Cleaned palette. Thats it.