Thank you for all the lovely supportive messages on FB and via email. Although I am getting on top of my malady gradually it doesn't seem to be a linear improvement. I get a good (ish) day or two and then the next I feel as if I have gone back to square one.
Painting is still a struggle and its been easy to waste materials having to abandon something when I have taken a turn for the worse. Eager to do something and not wanting to waste time I thought I needed to work in a medium that I could leave when I felt ill and then come back to when I felt better not incurring any wastage in the process. I fancied doing something a bit more tactile.
During the Holt Festival this year I met Max Angus a print maker who produces beautiful linocut prints and her work interested me sufficiently to research the process and maybe try it myself. There has been a lot to learn; the different linos, tools, inks, papers and presses. Its early days but I am enjoying learning a new creative art form. Its always good to try other mediums as I believe it gives one a fresh impetus on return to the main art form. It has given me new ideas about composition and colour and other subject matter to consider. In the medium term I hope it will get me back painting - so too I hope will my meeting later today with my Surgeon at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital.
Here is today's (bargain) painting:
Lemons & Eggs
Oil on Canvas Panel
8" x 8" (image size)
Framed
SOLD
and framed it looks like this:
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