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!

Thursday, 18 November 2010

Storms and blues

Sad tonight as I missed the Sick Kids auction which I had a ticket for from Lynn in Gairloch; typical that the one and only day I was wanting to go somewhere- which never happens in my life usually- is the one day events go sideways in cashdayjob, which also never happens... So I missed two things as I was going to catch up with Ritchie and Pauline and have some dinner, which would have been a once-in-a-blue-moon event!! Last time I was out for a meal was probably my birthday unless you count the pub in Peebles for the ma-in-law's birthday lunch. Social butterfly I am not these days... which is one of those things that at the time you can never in a million years invisage but suddenly creeps up on you and bam! haven't been to a nightclub in... oh lordy, no idea how long!! I guess not drinking removes half of the point and all of the incentive mind; I dread to think what these places would look like sober..
I was also supposed to be sticking up some flyers for the show today but it was chucking it down with rain so that has been postponed until the morning after my haircut - here's hoping it isn't blowing a gale and snowing in the morning.
Started a few more box canvases en masse tonight as a way of clawing back some virtue out of a wasted day, which went well apart from the intervention of Twig the kit who was having one of her disruptive moods and seemed to want to be painted herself. Managed to avoid making her any more multi-coloured than she already is, however.
So, productivity grinds to a halt as I am knackered and feel that sleep is probably the best option now. Tomorrow, as they say, is another day!

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