23 days to go until my exhibition preview. Talk about down to the wire! I have so much to do. Pictures to finish of, D rings to put on, more cards to order, labels to make, prices to decide, flyers to distribute, posters to put-up and so on. A photo session at the Picture House…
I have put the finishing touches to this by painting in the crows. Hotham Park has a large population of crows and rooks strutting around and nesting in tall trees. The crows are unusual in that they have white feathers in their wings.
Last time I posted I was in a tiz about how much I have to do before my exhibition. Enter the technical hitch. Now I class myself as one of those people whom Humphrey Littleton called Techno serfs, that is opposed to those who rank as technocrats. Technocrats manage machines and negotiate through the complexities…
Help! I have and exhibition in a months time and I’m starting to panic I won’t get everything done in time. Today I got into my studio at 5.45am and painted all day until 5 pm with only short breaks for meals. I worked on three paintings two almost done plus one new.
During the really hot weather I took my sketching group, to this lovely shady spot in Hotham Park. It’s a place I like to go back to as there are so many different species of trees there.
After painting the back wall of my studio with mould resistant emulsion I managed to work on this again.
At last I think this is finished. There may be a couple more little adjustments before my show but for now I have other fish to fry.
Second day of Hotham Park Country Fair. Today I became the demon paint squirter as I dished out paint to 40+ children who came to the tent to slosh paint around. Between squirting there was washing palettes in a bucket, filling and emptying water pots from a clean bucket, emptying said bucket, giving advice to…
As I am artist for the park I was asked to run a children’s activity tent for the two-days of the country fair. I have survived today’s steady stream of young artists covering sheets of paper with lurid paints and having a wonderful time. My back aches, my feet are killing me and I’m girding…
I took this picture of Hotham’s conservation pond yesterday. It is really impossible to see this and not think,Monet.
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