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!
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Surround sound
Stu's amazingly cool frames are coming together in the kitchen; I always know he's off now as I hear the music playing in the kitchen and smell the wax polish. Using stencils and prints over the multiple layers of paint them letting him work his magic with cloths and wire wool. Suits my little angel lady well methinks. Out researching the turnover of framers today which seem to be remarkably buoyant; not sure why people are still out there framing so many things in a recession but it sure suits me. Slowly starting to get my head around the figures and facts that I need to collate; its all tolerable when you break it down into those bite sized pieces.
My reasons for beginning the experience that is this blog are many - promote my painting with a view to ditching the day-money-job, working on my writing to move towards finishing my great unfinished novel, another exercise in discipline/mindfullness/organisation/time management, the horrible realisation that popped into my head one day when I recalled the phrase 'if my life depended on it' that.... it does.
Unless I want my life to end with the words 'I could have been a contender'...
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