19 05 2021

Not going to plan... the blue paper either too absorbent  (with walnut ink) or too resistant (with Chinese ink) Have to keep re-introducing chalk and ugh its all got lost. Image caught me in LaValdieu and was both dispassionate and scary but is now persisting in being cute. Other problem is that each layer has to dry so the thing changes and occasionally surprises - like yesterday evening it looked like it had its own functioning life as a tree but by the morning, niet.

Have a RDV to hand over the paintings to go to Munich to be crated by Norbert, they are packed - and my wrists are bandaged, really didn't want anyone else to do that job but, oh la, I've got De Quervains tenosynovitis and this has banged it back in place. Not really a problem, when it was first diagnosed I made and bought bandages that deal with it. It'll pass. 

When the doc in London diagnosed it she was delighted. Of the eight artists in the practice, six had the condition. It was like a certificate of authenticity ( at least as far as she was concerned.)

Yesterday; the spring at La Bauzeille hte., above La Serpent. Very appealing. Booked Gracie for next week, check out the lime mine and mill. There is obviously lime AND iron in the water.