Spent most of yesterday painting out beginnings. I'm vacuous...
Phil gone today so my studio time will be restricted as Bob will need more help. I'm re-learning to paint by artificial light though so will be working more of an evening.
Barely working, of course - engaged in finding a home for Ian and caring for Bob. No matter as fiddling all that's needed at the moment and I think one is finished and another just needs attention. Want to walk now, back seizing up...
Almost getting enough time to paint - but not enough to concentrate. Religious symbolism is slipping in, unbidden, and I want to see it through before I overpaint. Waste of time? No matter-
Took pictures of the latest and dislike them so much had to erase. Will press on though, there is something to offer - just have to get through the way the bloody things look.
Day spent in idle pleasures and very pleasant too. This evening painted out another couple and restarted under artificial light, which is fine - one of them about a boy is most interesting to me. Eldest sister to five brothers, I know a lot about boys (it turns out).
I'm getting time but in strange starts with unpredictable interruptions.
Been fretting, though the figures-in-a-landscape (x 4) are really rather appealing. Appealing to what, to whom, why?? I just quite like them.
Thank god this year is nearly done with !
painted out the last stuff, the artist and her model - cartoons, they seemed this morning. Labouring the feminist. Have returned to figures in a landscape - a pleasure to paint.
