Never ending work

What do I do all the time? This week I've been writing and sending press releases to the newspapers about my forthcoming exhibitions; creating a new oil painting called 'Of Childhood and Inspiration' - nearly finished that. I've been tidying up a few other paintings where I noticed the colours were not right or the edges needed neatening; I've printed some cards that I designed over the last few weeks; I've planned the layout of my solo exhibition in the local library window and typed the list of works with prices for that.

Choppy Seas Triptych

It took me ages to get these three pictures close enough in colour etc (including the fixtures at the right level at the back!) to make them a triptych but I'm pleased with them now.

I'll remember the other stuff I've been doing (oh, preparing the work for the Montrose exhibition of course!), just as soon as I finish on this laptop, but that's life. No doubt I'll be back soon. When I have time!

Let you in to a Secret

I've been painting a picture today which I think I'll call 'Sunset Song Landscape' because it's an impression of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's house in the Howe o' the Mearns, an area I love to travel through: and remember the prose in the novel Sunset Song.

My secret is ...

this is an experiment ... painted in gouache (watercolour) on canvas with my fingers, mainly, and...

... love it as I do, I shall probably wash it all off and use the canvas for something more permanent. :-(

Unless, of course, someone makes it worth my while not to! It is 16" x 20" and will need framing with glass to protect it. Offers over £40 by 20th November 2010 .... See my Affordable British Art Gallery where free delivery is included.