11 04 2021

Finished, to my satisfaction - its always when I give up and think a thing is unresolvable that it slides into place.

Now the weighty matter of fixative is an issue because its surface is well friable. Asked Ole-Bendik's advice. Figured as an artist, chiefly pastels,  of 80 years he'd have a notion and he did. The old ways - milk, hairspray - just make the surface brittle. Buy aerosol tins of fixative, he says, and at our age don't even consider a diffuser.

Can't get to an art shop for at least 3 weeks, assuming lockdown is lifted then. Have been on line and ordered some and will have to work out the thorny issue of drawing boards somehow. Clip to wall? Yeah...

Creatures below causing probs but so nearly there... l think

 

and here, hahaha, nature echoing art.

Health scare with Bob, continuing. Called emergency services yesterday as his B/P registered a level that google said was life threatening.  Doc on line doubled his heart drugs, wants him kept quiet, doc app tomorrow.