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December 12, 2005

Later the same day…

It was a slow start. As ever with these things, fear gripped me. It goes something like this: if I’ve had a good day the day before, then I fear I can’t possibly do it again. If I haven’t had a good day, then I fear I’ve lost it and so can’t do it at all.

Now I realise this isn’t the most positive attitude, but then one is not always master of one's moods. [I think this fear is all part and parcel of the Creative Thing]

Eventually, with the speed of a mollusc experiencing an ice age [to quote HH Munro] I began to apply the paint. Firstly fiddling around in the background of yesterday’s picture. Then, finally, on a panel I last worked on nearly a year ago, and which has been languishing in the racks ever since.

spin.jpg

this panel is part of a diptych:

dig-and-spin.jpg

dig and spin 1220mm x 244mm, oil on two panels.

I want to say that processing images for these diaries I have to sacrifice quality to speed and size and that the colours, as a result are not accurate, frustrating for me, misleading for you, but it’s something we’ve got to live with.

Posted by john at December 12, 2005 01:16 AM

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