Here comes the difficult part of being alone again. Diminished funds. Forty years of not having to consider very much whether I could afford it or not gets to be a habit. Of course if I had considered it then,I might not have had to consider it so much today, but that is beside the point [...]
You won’t believe it but I am going to Art Lessons here in Thailand. I had read about an art exhibition of Impressionist Paintings and Watercolour in the local paper. By the time I got around to visiting it the actual exhibition was over,but one morning a friend and I drove over to see what [...]
It’s been there since i moved into this little apartment. Every morning I sit drinking my coffee on the balcony and it stares menacingly down at me. If I am up early enough,-and I usually am, because it’s the only time of day when the temperature is pleasant in Thailand,- I see the sun rising [...]
Today is the big day. I am booked on a flight to Bangkok tonight. The stamp in my passport says I am allowed to stay for a year in the land of smiles,and my life is now in one suitcase. I’m not sure I like the feeling inside of me. I will take my laptop,and [...]
Yesterday was one of those perfect late summer days,and my watercolour painting class took off to capture,or maybe not,the beauty of the nearby lake. Although we are now only four pupils the course still started again last week. My teacher congratulated me on my new size block of paper and large brush,and was indeed very [...]
I still try to paint. Watercolour. I don’t practice enough and I don’t let the creative side of me, if there is one, get the upper hand but slog along trying to copy others, whether books or teacher. By chance a colleague of my husband visited us just as I was returning from art classes [...]
Sue Tilley is the name of the lady,and she has just been sold for 33 Million Dollars. Lucian Freud painted her in eight hourly sessions , three times a week over nine monthes. He called his painting “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” She earned about 40 Dollars a time,and is now famous. Lucian Freud is one of [...]
I was greeted like a lost lamb who had returned to the fold when I turned up for my watercolour classes again. Immediately any aprehension I had about going back disappeared and I wasn’t even upset when we were told we would be painting outside. From previous posts you will know I don’t like it [...]
It had to happen. I toddled along to an Art Vernissage which I do like attending for Arts sake if the subjects in the widest sense appeal to me. Not like all those people of course who are only there to wine and dine,although I am partial to a good, cold, dry white,and even more [...]
Would you believe it, The missing Ferdinand Hodler painting”Bare Chesnut Trees in Ticino” which I wrote about yesterday has been found. An employee of the Volkart Stiftung in Winterthur, a town near Zürich, after watching the news on television, remembered seeing the painting in their storage room. The painting belongs to Andreas Reinhart, whose family [...]
