wastelandnumberseven

I have a very sensitive nose this week, like i can't remember having before, i can smell things all the time, the washing powder on my jumper, the food that's slightly going off in the fridge.. maybe i'll end up killing a redhead and stealing her smell too..

I havent painted in a few days, i have cleared out my room quite a lot though, still a bit to go but it looks and feels better. But, ironically, now i've had other things on and less time to paint, i've had ideas of things to paint, i have three on the go at the moment, went round today to work a bit, 3 hours, and started a painting of my nephew, 1 year old connor. And another one of a painting within a painting, and its of a worn painting of flowers, which is crumbling and flaking, and where the painting has flaked off you can see another, more violent, acidic and colourful painting underneath, i thought that was a nice idea. And the third i only have drawings for at the moment, but its set in this wasteland type place, and has two people fighting, a dog lying down in the foreground, and some other people at the back. But that's on a big canvas, may take a week or so before i've finished it.

The next pretty vacant exhibition starts soon, i've entered a few images, one of which i think i've already sold, it's one of the flower ones below, for £20 to someone i met a while back in America, which is cool. And I'm running a weekly afterschool class in a few weeks, after the easter holiday, i have a few ideas, but it'll be the first class i've taken on my own, so it's pretty daunting, but if i make a good go of it i think teaching might be a good way of making some money while i continue painting.

The smell of this jumper is really overbearing.

Concerning painting, i think i'm only better now than i was in september because my perserverance has improved, and that's really a massive part of making good paintings. Is not giving up halfway through and saying 'That'll do', but carrying on, repainting, scraping back off and doing it again and again, until its right, until its good. Of course, it's best if you can get it right first time, but i think with perseverance anyone can paint.