This is what it looked like about four days ago - I'm losing track of how long this is taking. All I know is that it is tooooooo long. I did not take a photo today because I was hoping to have all the tiling that was possible to get done, done today. That would have meant all the tiles on the ledge on the right and all but about fifteen floor tiles near the window. The floor tiles will be finished tomorrow, but the ledge is too bumpy and lumpy and all over the place to be able to tile it. So, Monday I will get some cement to even it out, along with a smaller trowel because the one I have been using for the floor tiles is soooo heavy.
On the plus side, just look a that window! I will once again be able to paint by daylight and my studio has gained the space between the window and the step-up stool as well as a storage area in a space around the corner before the window.
So, the timing is likely to be: floor tiles tomorrow: ledge cement and cutting top-of-ledge tiles and placing them on Monday; skirting boards, grouting and the vertical tiles on the ledge on Tuesday; and finally the grouting on the ledge on Wednesday. So, if I have no more delays, I am hoping to be able to get the paint, easels, tabouret, brushes and stool back in the studio by Thursday at the latest. I can put things back in the main area on Wednesday, perhaps and then start painting in there on Thursday. And then there is the heater that is being moved from the little window (yay!) to a hole in the wall where those sheet-rock boards are standing. A slight miscalculation will be putting the heater further from the wall than expected and sort of sticking out awkwardly. Ah well! so be it. I really do not want to have to get another hole made in the 50cm-thick wall.
With all this plastering, tiling, moving things around, mixing glue, mixing filler, I don't seem to have found any time for painting which explains why I am finding all this to be taking much too long. I have worked on a drawing here and there during breaks and I'll post it when it's finished. Everything else is sort of hanging about - hahaha , get it? There are actually four canvases still hanging in the studio, mostly covered with plastic sheeting but I ran out and so one of them is probably collecting all that glue and filler dust that has been flying around all over the place. I can only hope that it was dry enough not to have absorbed some of it. It looks ok but I have not really looked closely.
Well, talking of drawing has made me want to finish the current one.
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