Monday

We had a bus trip in this morning.  A group of Leeds Loiners enroute to Bridlington. In many ways that was the highlight of the day, however, many were quite elderly and they were clock watching anxious not to miss the bus.  There were one or two other interesting folk called in to see us but generally a very quiet day.

It is getting harder to do the work as we are both feeling quite weary. However, I did paint some more of the canvas roll which I would like to finish before I leave.  I also did do some more work on the small board series but it was the wrong time as I was feeling quite tired by then. The other thing I wanted to do was a big sky landscape.  I did not want to use the boards but I had not brought my acrylic paper pad so I used some thin watercoloured paper which I gessoed.  The results were not good as the paper buckled and I was not happy with the colours I had or how they sat on the watercolour paper. I will finish it tomorrow but only for something to do.

The day started off with heavy rain and it had rained in the night too. Eventually, about 1pm the sun came out and in spite of a cloudy and windy hiccup mid-afternoon the sun remained. Thus the summerhouse got very hot again. Paint was drying very quickly yet this morning the cool damp atmosphere made the drying time longer than usual.