Stand Aside ...... She's Holding A Palette Knife .........

There is something very satisfying, especially when you are feeling a little emotionally fragile, than to slap oil paint on a large canvas with a palette knife.  Loads of paint get spread anywhere and everywhere and it is so soothing to me.

Of course, after all that you are left with a large mess that you then need to put some semblence of whatever it is you are trying to portray.

I had this rather large canvas - 1.5m x 1m - and spent yesterday throwing paint at it.

The end result is not pretty but it is certainly satisfying ..... lol.

Not to fear with some sensible effort it will turn into a (hopefully) reasonable piece of work - a large wave in the middle of the ocean with an albatross skimming the foam.

For me the act of mindlessly throwing paint about is very calming and distracting from any concerns I may have.  Of course the next day you look at what you did and shake your head .....  I am sure there is about 2 or 3 kilos of paint on there .....  rotfl.

Apart from that I didn't do much at all yesterday but I did find a new children's book that was released yesterday and it looks really interesting.  Remembering how much I enjoyed Harry Potter and also the The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel series by Michael Scott, I thought I might get myself a copy of it.  If you click on this link you can read the opening chapter - it is called The Emerald Atlas and sounds like my kind of kids book.

Doedsn't appear to be available in Australia yet - all the websites I checked with said it would have to be ordered from the UK - so I may wait a week or so and see if we get stock here, if not play on EBay.

Noticed there is a new James Rollins, or at least one I haven't read - The Devil Colony ( a prequel) so will look out for that as well.

Found an ecopy of Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey which I hadn't read so downloaded that; I mean I only have about 10,000 ebooks to read so I certainly need a few more ..... lol

Downloaded a few non-fictions as well - Michio Kaku's last two, Parallel Worlds and Physics of the Impossible and Stephen Hawking's Grand Design.  Noticed Michio has another new release that sounds interesting as well - Physics of the Future - so will keep a look out for that.

Now I just need to decide what to read now as I just completed a series .... ah decisions, decision ......

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