Hundreds

The research visit to Milton Keynes last weekend provided me with plenty of material. There are lots of practicalities to deal with before beginning the process of painting.
Last week I ordered paints, mediums and five 5ft x 5ft canvases. I also rearranged the studio ready to accommodate the canvases. I tend to work on more than one piece at a time often moving the paintings around to develop relationships between the pieces. I’ve now got two working spaces and a place to stack the other three canvases vertically; this will allow me to look at 3 pieces at a time.
On Friday I started some large preparatory drawings (about 2 thirds scale) – it was good to make a physical start on the creative process of filtering the stimulus I’d gathered.
The paint order was due to arrive but by 5 o’clock there was no sign of a delivery. On calling the supplier I was told that the parcel had been delivered and signed for at 9.30am! Hopefully I’ll find out where the paints have actually been delivered – and get them back to the studio on Monday.