This week has been a flurry of spring cleaning, in the middle of which I found this half-finished painting from several years ago. I might complete it and put it into the art group show, or use it as a background for a blog on books I’m hoping to create soon. Perhaps I’ll make a montage of it, like I did with my flower designs. With a month to go before the big day, I have also got all my paintings ready for the exhibition, and they only need prices putting on them now. I was going to order mounts for them, and order some for Elizabeth while I was at it, but it would have cost £17 for the ones I wanted, and £62(!) for Elizabeth’s (around £3 each) Elizabeth doesn’t have a computer. I might try and persuade her to just wrap them up in cellophane instead, as I have with some of mine. I spent about £100 on frames around 4 years ago, and still have most of them, and use them every year. It would be a bit quicker to use mounts when we are actually setting up, as I can just stick them on the exhibition boards with Velcro, whereas with framed paintings, I have to wait to be given my share of “butcher’s hooks” and then do something complicated with string, which I won’t go into here.
My parents visited earlier this week and brought with them my great aunt’s old autograph book. It had a picture done by her niece, Dorothy, when she was 13, of Donald Duck. The writing underneath reads, “You are a little duck”. I am going to add this to our family tree, which I researched a couple of years ago, as it helps give an idea of what the person was like. It is nice to know artiness goes that far back in the family.
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