The chickpeas are soaking. The chicken is going to be bought and roasted and served to a small party on saturday.
I think I`ve found another. She`s coming on Friday.
But people are awfully unreliable here, so I am not betting on it.
Made a soup using chickpeas, pork and cilantro. Good.
Next, I try to use chickpeas as a stuffing for roast chicken.
I think the next two pictures will be good ones.
It`s always hard to figure why some paintings go well, the others not~ there`s an unpredictable x-factor which determines the success of a project.
There is one of a parade of shops, Hopper meets Sickert, which I feel confident about and which I`ll finish next week.
I`m happier about this. it`s progressing well, with the private tutor helping a lot.
The main difficulty is the verb endings, which of course just take practice.
I think I expected to progress much too rapidly with this, and consequently became demoralised, but being 28 my mind simply works more slowly than it used to and I now see that I should allow at least 2 years more in order to complete this goal.
More good work…I painted over the weaker picture.
Large building, such as modern blocks make for rotten subject matter
The fillling station is coming along well, and there is a new one of a parade of houses.
Well I have posted ads here and there and am waiting for the phone to ring.
They dont need to be naked, so it shouldn`t be too hard to find someone.
One goodish pictue begun, another became very ugly due to a poor choice of colours. I am a little concerned also that my method is becoming `slick`, i.e. consisting of a series of facile mannerisms.
I am not sure quite how to overcome this.
One of the difficulties with this goal is intrinsic to the subject, which is essentially ugly- ill proportioned buldings rapidly constructed with no considered relationship to each other. It imply is not very pleasant to look at such architectural agglomorations for long periods of time. Indeed, they seem to be deigned primarily around the needs of car users.
However I felt it important to pursue this as my previous subject, the sea, had a very obvious beauty.
I felt that the `real Brazil`, so to speak, lies as much in its hideously haphazard street planning, as in its famous natural beauty- one of the duties of the artist is surely to study and record lived experience.
