Friday, April 01, 2011

Friday

A busy day today; Quarterly backups on the computer. Laying out and ordering the prints for the Nantwich Arts Festival sign. Buying some new shoes, looking for cycling glasses, investigating frame prices, and costs of acrylic plastic (it was rather bendy at 2mm, I might end up ordering some cast 4mm acrylic sheeting online), checking the train times for the pickup from the R.B.S.A. tomorrow, finishing some sound effects, marking out a new painting idea (just setting the size really), printing one test business card for a local garage, staining the Annunciation frame, seeking the foamboard I had but have apparently now lost, a quick visit to the bank and filling in a copyright waiver so that my museum painting can be catalogued, oh and I popped into The Cubby Hole for a brief rest and a chat. Oh, and setting monthly goals and analysing the results of March. And making a list of people to inform should I move house.

Tomorrow's jobs are fewer, but time consuming travelling; to the Grosvenor Museum in Chester to enter the 2011 open, then to the R.B.S.A. in Birmingham to collect Genesis of Terror.

Primary goals for April are to complete the Lyceum Theatre project, the Ticket to Crewe project, paint a portrait for Marbury Church, underpaint The Invisible Woman, and make my bit of the Nantwich Arts Festival sign. Phew!

So, things to ask myself...

Is cast acrylic sheeting better than extruded for painting on?
and
Where can I get cheap yellow visor-type cycling glasses?
and
How much more could I get done if I had a clone or two? :)

Two areas of research I've read online interested me; that smile frequency was proportional to life-span and relationship stability (easy when you think about it) and that heavy exercise extends life span, not reduces it. Keep busy friends - and keep smiling :)