A year of Poverty, Painting and Food: Twelve years in catering over, my aim is to paint full time. Stu, my other half, is stuck as a chef feeding the x-thousand over an Edinburgh winter. His cooking tips and budgeting are propelling us through the year on a tenner a day, while I paint.. No comparison to Pablo's talent; I have just named my blog after the Paris studio where he suffered the twin purgatory of poverty and artistic ambition on the cusp.. I am emerging!

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Small lesson

Painting at Ritchie's today from 12 - 4; thinking about viking boats and conical mountains, so that's what appeared on the little box canvases. Spent a pleasant forty-five minutes giving an impromptu art lesson to two small girls who wandered in and seemed well versed with Ritchie's paintings and the layout of the gallery - hopefully they have art loving parents who will return to snap up a few pictures... Got out the potatoes and managed a fairly presentable picture with them while remembering just how much mess children can make with paint, realising that they were playing with £4.50 a tube Liquitex and thinking about the likelihood of the parents sueing when they received back their permanently stained offspring. Good fun though.

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