Standing Stones....

It's only three weeks until Spring Fling so I'm busy making lists and more lists of jobs that need doing.Phil the Framer on Buccleugh St ,Dumfries is doing a fantastic job on framing some of my pieces. They can really finish a piece of work and show something off to it's full potential. There will be some pieces unframed as it is preferable for some people to frame a piece to their own taste and surroundings.

I've been enjoying working with watercolours,gouache ,acrylic inks and watersoluble graphite  pencils.A key subject are the standing stones on Orkney......

    

Three men in a boat

The last couple of weeks has just been one of those times when you begin to wonder what else life is going to throw at you.These times are usually made infinitely more stressful knowing that the deadline is looming for another event. Then you switch the news on and events happening around the world put everything back in to perspective....

This poem by Jerome K Jerome (1859-1927),an English writer and humorist could have been written for the modern world....

'Let your boat of life be light,
packed with only what you need-
a homely home and simple pleasures,
one or two friends,worth the name,
someone to love and someone to love you,
a cat, a dog and a pipe or two,
enough to eat and enough to wear,
and a little more than enough to drink:
for thirst is a dangerous thing.'

I made it back into the studio after time out -back to watercolour paper with pencil,ink and paint.Time to rebuild the energy levels....starting with Standing Stones....