Some words

A bit of a day today. Didn't feel my usual perky self after some depressed thoughts in the studio last night - resolved, but left me tired and out of sorts. Tired is probably the key word here - I have been reading about 'sleep deficit' and I think I need to play catch-up; I need a good eight hours, me, and I have had none of that since wee Twig the wonder kit came to stay... Now I am spending all my waking hours thinking and worrying art it tends to leave me feeling fractured. Can't wait for my foxy new glasses to turn up as I think that has not been helping.

So, in my saggy old, baggy old mood I shall turn to my sketch book and look at some of the 'words of the day' I have scribbled over the last couple of months; be good to have them all in one place.

Bleu de nuit: possible title for painting, not sure what of

Bleu de Chocolat / Chocolate Chrysanthemum : print involving crysanthemums, burnt umber and turquoise; also could be a title

les flottant: title of new picture involving Suki and her boat again with the Arran islands floating in the distance. Also cool as Stu used to have to make these in his earlier cheffing years (its a pudding).

Hespera: goddess of dusk and Aurora: goddess of dawn; cool sounding goddesses with illustration potential.

Sous le ciel / sous les etoile: Under the sky, under the stars... great titles for a very blue and dreamy picture

Quotidien: first encountered on shampoo bottle in Paris. Surely useful for part of a title someday

Carousel: thinking of Montmartre, where the carousel is obscured by leaves and flowers of the horse chestnuts, leaving only a red iron horse showing above the foliage.

Elusive Angel: the name I had for a potential shop/gallery when I first moved to Edinburgh fifteen odd years ago. Not used yet, but you never know. Fat lady ain't sung as far as I know.

Caryatid: one of my all time favourite words and an image I love too; still not quite 'nailed' a caryatid painting yet, but I am sure I will return to the image repeatedly. Awesome sculptures of caryatids in Pantheon, Paris and Hanoi opera house. Modigliani did a pretty nifty drawing too.

Clouds like an agate slice: just an observation; they were. Love coining names for types of cloud - baguettes, rain teats, houndstooth, thumb-smudge...

Vigilant, Fruitful, Sincere, Crusader, Tranquility, Comely, Reaper: all names of boats in harbours on the Fife coast. Love them

Mochizuki: gentle, silent and rounded full moon. No idea where I read that but its a great word.

Lagom: Swedish word meaning not too much, not too little; moderate. I think that was in a fashion mag about someone's 'style'. Not me obviously as I possess none. In danger of becoming proud of it too. Sadly my non-style is just that, not uber-geeky or quaint in an Ugly Betty or Chloe Sevigny; not even bleedin' Lady Gaga. Ho hum; all we cannot win.

That's enough for now, don't want to waste too many possible blog topics on a single day!

Today's post-it note reads 'stencil graffiti, masking, monoprint'. So a busy day tomorrow; these are all experimental new techniques required for projects in my head, or inclusion into day to day painting methods. Play time.