I have been working on a couple of paintings, but nothing to show yet as I am so not sure if it is going where I want it to go or if it is going anywhere interesting. Also, I have had to remove almost everything from the studio to be able to finish grouting the floor tiles. What a mess! I made the mix a little too thick, or rather not quite liquid enough and so it sort of congealed a little too fast. I finished all of the floor and edges that I wanted to get done, but the clean-up is going to be heavy duty. I will clean up when I have grouted the mosaic tiles on the little wall. So, I will have to finish the grouting before I can get back to the paintings otherwise I will have to move the easels back into the storage again. No thanks, I'll wait.
The plan was to get all the grouting and clean-up done yesterday, but a friend suggested going to an art fair - which was actually a craft fair - and a concert. Both were a nice outing and then we ate out so got back too late to get any work done of any kind. Today was shopping day and so that disappeared as usual. The craft fair was in a really nice venue where the lucky ones get to exhibit their art. I am planning on applying to exhibit my work there. I just have to send in three photos of paintings and an application form - all on-line - and then wait to see if they accept my application. If it is anything like in Antwerp, it could take at least a year before I get a time slot for my exhibition, if I get a slot, naturally.
In the painting department, I worked on two paintings for about three days. Day one, I just applied paint, paying attention mainly to colour choices on one painting, and to representation in the other one. Day two, I fell out with the colour choices on the first and could only stare at the second which resulted in nothing more. Day three, I modified the colours slightly on the first and stared some more at the second. However, the music was great. Hopefully, tomorrow, I will get the grouting done in no more than an hour and then I will have the rest of the day to paint, or rather fight with those two paintings, unless the Village is dry enough to continue. Then there is the other Village that I have barely looked at for about two months. It just hangs there in all its enormity, staring at me, telling me I have to do something, but not telling me what. I avoid looking at it, for now.
I ordered fixative for the drawings and varnish for the paintings, so I suspect that I will be varnishing all of the thoroughly "dry" paintings as an avoidance to working on the ones mentioned above. I want to start a new painting, but that too is an avoidance trick and explains why I have a great deal of unfinished, abandoned-for-now paintings. Actually, some paintings that are unfinished, I now considered finished because I like them the way they are. Others, definitely not.
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