Slops and the usual mess for WOYWW

My room is a bigger mess

than normal as I'm

trying to do a few canvasses together.

There are four in fact, the other two

are on the floor in my other lounge room

(or as I like to say my almost second studio)

My desk is buried 

under the bits and pieces that I'm working on.

I've got pictures and pots and brushes and all sorts.

It's actually organised chaos, kinda.

It's been a bit of a bummer

these last two weeks.

I had a bad batch of canvasses

and lost quite a few paintings.

Yes, I literally lost them, 

they slid right off the canvas.

 The lumpy stuff on the canvas is the gesso

all glooped together as it ran off the canvas.

All seemed fine until I hit the canvas with water

 and then it just let go.

My teacher thinks there must have been some oily film on

them and of course you can't put acrylic over oil.

I even soaped and hosed the canvas and sanded it

but to no avail.  The shop is quite happy to

replace them but I'm not sure I want more of 

this brand now.

I have since bought some linen canvasses

and I'm going crazy trying to get 

some done so I can get them into the shop.

I sold two paintings in the shop and

have the wall space until the end of August

but with the manky canvasses I may not

get any more to the shop in time.

Today was a mad day

with paint flying everywhere,

canvasses laying outside in the sun,

another one all splattered and runny in the room

and one up on the easel.

Moving around can be a bit hard as I tend to find bits of

paint in all sorts of places.

My nice white tiles are now looking

more like a 60's psychedelic painting

and I had plastic down.

I also learned that even though it's cold

don't wear socks in the art room.

I found a trail of footprints out into the kitchen,

guess they'll expect me to clean that up (sigh).

I could always do what the kids do

and say it wasn't me!!

I hope that by next week

I might actually have something

worth looking at.

If all goes to plan, there will be two boat

paintings, a pelican and some segulls

all half done, so fingers crossed these

don't decide to slide off.

That's all I have to show this week,

so why not go on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see some more productive

desks around the world.