15 01 2023

Trickling along, light and time permitting - a gentle pleasure really, provided l just do it. 

 

13 01 2023

 Dibbling at the Last Supper, now called the First Office Christmas Party - and started another Emergence of Eve. Starting later and later - it must have been nearly 10 am when I got to the studio this morning - the dark mornings and a warm bed conspire to let me sleep late. On the plus side more gets done. Weird. More energetic and def more comfortable after a lot of rest, lots of unquestioning bashing on.

10 01 2023

 ...had taken some discs of old paintings to the magic man of Esperaza, the computer wizz who knows all - was hoping they held some interesting work I'd forgotten about and could develop. This machine doesn't have that little slot / tray to put discs in and I can't make the external drive work. So Ronan took the discs and put them on a stick. (Another misnomer, its more of a thumbnail.)

Now thoroughly depressed.  A great many dull and crudely painted pictures. Nearly all from the food painting days and curiously, nearly all sold. So much hard work. So much endeavour. At least I'm a better painter now.

Its quite mild out so think I'II go and draw...

08 01 2023

 This being Sunday, nothing has been done - except a bit of sewing. Managed that because it was possible to buy a thimble at the market - haven't been able to sew for ages because of lack of. 

Virtuous though. Yesterday entirely spent cleaning up, binning, replacing, soaking, scrubbing. Most unnatural. Still quite lost except for flashes of ideas that become slight on examination. Waiting used to be normal; will cultivate. 

07 01 2023

 

Too gloppy to work on any more, have put away.... composition finally sorted, colours too muddy, content vapid.

Clean studio today, check out fresh canvases.

04 01 2023

 Watching paint try - frightened to glaze anything as paint not dry enough and I fear the glazing will take the place of good honest painting as it ends up looking glitzy good. This particular problem pic being the Last supper which I'm far too attached to.

Going for a walk. May not return to studio today - need to think.

02 01 2023

 Signed, dated and put up on Instagram...

so it must be finished. Some of it successful, I like the confusion of sword handle, hand and groin - the phallicness of all - to redress the endless dispassionate spear poking by St George :) 

These luminous paints are amazing though I guess wait and see when its all dried and settled. Been mixing with too much Damart resin probably. Back to the last supper now. Lovely working big again.