These are better! I needed the light. my studio gets the best light 🙂 I love my studio.. today is a messy day. I am making merangues for the pavlova. I knew they would be fiddly – I never knew they would be so messy! there is sugar everywhere! I am personally covered in merangue…

the menu is all worked out and now I just need to work out my schedule for preparation (so that it is not all done at the last minute) some dishes can be made up to a week in advance so I will be distributing everyrhing reasonably evenly…. here is the menu.Muscat Glazed HamBacon, Spinach and Brie turkey buff with a cranberry and orange glaze.Peach relishAsparagus with Tomato relishPasta SaladPotato Salad with Honey VinagretteLeafy green salad with walnut dressingOk, that is just Dinner! Check out dessert…Maple Syrup and Pecan CheesecakeTropical Fruit Pavlova TowerWhite Chocolate and pistachio Parfait with Berry CoulisMini truffle puddings and traditional cookies.I thiink that will be enough for 11/12 people…

I used my visual diary a lot more this time and there was a lot of writeup to do but I am confident I have included everything and have done a good job…. people comment on the works as they please and it is really good to get such nice reactions. I have a limit to the amount of images I can post per month so there isn’t much on there right now but feel free to have a look around!

They are for the woman who bought my Shoe paintings, she has commissioned me to do two more larger works with several shoes…. I have chosen to do them in Acrylic as I don’t have much experience with it as a medium and I don’t have time to wait for oils to dry enough to be packed off to Canada!… Even more importantly, I am finally beginning to Grok that it is not about loving my work or making something that everybody enjoys – it is about making art. nothing more or less.

Another physical setback on the glacier ride that is my life…. So my original idea of a charcoal drawing or pastel painting brimming with pathos isn’t really going to cut it. oh well I can revisit a more traditional depiction when I do the Smart inspited version.

I have chosen Smart (surprise surprise) because I love his work and I feel that his urban landscapes resonate well with my impression of the word ‘street’I find this sort of thing very difficult indeed…. then I move into street art which is much more fun and something I enjoy (yes I do believe it is free expression – no I do not like tagging) but is quite out of my league. I experimented with it when I was 12 and 13 like everyone but I don’t really have the knack (I was better at bubble writing) I also think of Heinlein and his rolling roads.I think this work needs to be fairly simple to lend impact.

now I am completely useless again and very annoyed.In other news assignment work has been clicking along I am quite pleased with it…. I am enjoying this course so much.I am negotiating for two exhibitions next year (probably in hte first half) and working towards some competitions. I have one competition at the end of this month but with my latest setback I am not sure if I will be ready in time.

I have perfected my sugar-free, wheat-free, low-carb, high-fiber, high-protein, incredibly-decadent-I-cant-believe-these-are-really-good-for-me chocolate brownies…. out of magazines.I have some good thoughts in my head – now I need to plan them in my diary and actually do some work on them.after that I get to do nudes…. It would bring in some good dough though – with Exhibition plans well under way I need dough.its good to be busy though.ok enough rhyming.