Sunday

The other day we realised that perhaps it was time to go inside the house to visit and familiarise ourselves with the paintings. We had had several visitors referring to specific paintings and I for one could not bring them to mind. So at 11am, a quiet time for us we locked up and had a lovely time inside the house admiring the furniture, the wood panelling, the moulded ceilings and of course the paintings, the majority of which are housed up in the long gallery.

Today, there did not seem to be as many visitors in the grounds as last Sunday but we had a steady trickle of interesting folk. Many of them were local,  especially from Driffield some 6 or7 miles away.  However, it did, also, seem a long day today; this was our eleventh day on the trot when we have been 'trapped' in the studio. It is an indulgence to be able to paint all day, every day but it can be tiring. I have had a variety of things to do and this has helped distract me and keep me fresher. I left the play boards of yesterday and revisited my canvas roll and added to the section I did previously, a few days ago. today For  some reason I was drawn to pattern work so spent a fair time painting dots and lines but then I did switch and  amended an earlier section where I had left some paintwork very messy.  I indulged in some free play and mark making on some gessoed book paper, to use up the left over paint and then did a little bit of collage in an old book. Weariness did get the better of me so I packed up, swept up and locked the door at 4:55pm. No visitors were to be seen or heard in the grounds so I toddled off back to the flat for a coffe and a chill!