The right music for the job... At the moment, the job is to stay warm (as well as paint). Orange and magenta help and so does music from dry and dusty places...
The iconic shape of a painter's pallet is so intrinsically linked with what it means to be a painter that many moons ago I took my inability to get any use out of them as an ominous sign for my fate as a painter. Turns out I am more of a frying pan man. I mix a lot...
It's getting cold outside and I am being warmed in here by these orange canvases. I know some people love the purity of freshly primed canvases. I find them a bit unnerving and too precious. It's easy to convince yourself that anything you attempt...
I am in the middle of unpacking the Italian pieces and taking stock. I have started drawing my stock maps, flying heads and all. They help me to move an exhibition along. You can usually tell how close to an exhibition I am by the number of these maps...
