Best laid plans, seem to go astray. WOYWW

I was quite excited about this week

as it is a public holiday in Brisbane

and I don't have an art class this week

which meant I could start an ink canvas.

Well in typical style, that didn't happen

as my last Gift Certificate for a Pet Portrait came in.

Of course I had to give that priority.

To be honest I'm not really happy with it.

The colour is too pale but it just doesn't want to darken.

The doggy photo I was given was taken at night 
which really messes with the colours

so I was guessing quite a bit and I prefer to just do the face

as a character portrait but they insisted that
 they wanted a full body.

I think that's what threw me.

I just hope they like it as they paid $50 for the gift certificate.

I've decided not to do any more gift certificates as 
I get quite stressed if the painting isn't working perfectly 
and you can't time when they come in for painting.

Since I didn't get to show all brightly coloured ink splodges,

I thought I would show you my splodgy room instead.

Here's my desk with the painting nearly done.

 This is to the left, oh yes not too bad you say.

Now it's starting to get there, you might be able to see
 the white sheet behind my easel, 
that is hiding a heap of half done canvasses

up against the wall, yeh, I'll get to them one day.

To the left of picture is my pile of junk that I have to squish
 each time I need to get into the cupboard, yeh,
 I'm gonna clean it up one day.

This is the one area I'm reasonably happy with
 as it is sort of tidy.

Well, that's if you don't look on the floor and oops,

 I didn't get that in the shot :)

This is the painful spot, I can't move for mess

and it's even up the wall and I have to dump all

of the papers on the printer on to the floor

each time I want to scan something.

Yeh, yeh, I'll clean it up one day.

So there you have the mess in the surround.

I often wonder how I manage to get anything done at all. 

Speaking of which, I may not get much done

from the middle of September as my girlfriend in Essex

has sold her house and is emigrating to Aus.

My girlfriend will be staying with us until she buys a house.

It will be shopping, coffee and cakes all the way for a while,

mwa ha ha.

Hey, maybe she will tidy up the art room (he he).

Nah, cake sounds better.

That's my desk this week and Julia hasn't posted
for this week yet, so I might get to play
with my inky mess yet.

Well you've seen mine, why not hop on over to Julia's,
I'm sure she will have WOYWW 
on her Stamping Ground by now
and you can see all the other desks 
around the world.