Painting Book

More steady work on the painting book for the past two days. Reading and researching a lot, but I must remember that the most important parts of the book are the parts that can't be found elsewhere, those unique insights gained by my experience.

Good Vibrations, Guitar Hooks

A regular visit to Congleton Library's Good Vibrations event. Valuable as performance, but I found it all difficult, difficult to even match chords to time, never mind singing at the same time. The best results were those of single notes or leads along with the tune, though this depends on enough other musicians to handle the chord and main melody. I need to practice this much more.

After that, I some nice DIY work putting up some guitar hooks for Deborah. The heads of the screws supplied with the hooks didn't fit into them. I needed to re-drill the holes bigger because I had no screws with smaller heads. Drilling into the wall was as hit and miss as ever; one hole hollow, one as rock solid a metal, unable to drill more than 15mm. In the end, however everything worked out well. I cut down a rawl plug and used a shorter screw for the 15mm hole (for an acoustic guitar, the weight was inconsequential, one good screw would hold it).

Writing: Underpainting, Shading, Glazing

More days of writing, underpainting, shading, glazing. 31,402 words so far. ArtsLab number 5 is also now online thanks to Ray Hayes. Tomorrow we'll be going to Good Vibrations.