Out of igloos

Leith seems to have woken from its winter slumber; numerous interesting visitors to the gallery today including some of the local children who once pestered me but have been absent since the snow fell. Maybe they just found their way out of their little igloos by the Water of Leith? Sold some box canvases to a great wee boy who is wanting to learn to paint; I hope he does well with them. I would have found that really intimidating at that age.

Spent some quality time flicking through the Taschen book of European portraits and watched Sophia Coppolla's 'Marie Antoinette' tonight which I love especially visually. More crazy pseudo-historical ladies on the way methinks..

Working on the 'Snowcatcher' painting today and another little one; all going to plan so far and thinking about colour a little more than I used to. Not entirely sure if this is a good or bad thing as sometimes it works better by instinct than design; conversely, the opposite can also be true.

Howling wind around the house tonight makes a change from snow; surveyors seeing the house tomorrow to further the remortgaging process , and the submissions go in for the SSA show. Also a sale of Buddhas in a shop in Morningside that I want to look at; not often you see that advertised...