Monday was my last official day in the studio. My plan was to make the absolute most of it.

There are currently two portraits and one painting in progress. The portrait of Guienne Hanover is in the under painting stage and is the highest priority. Next is the portrait of Lockkeeper, which is in the drawing phase, followed by the painting currently being chronicled under the title Horses in Landscape.

In theory, I should have worked on them in that order.

But that’s not what happened.

When I checked Guienne Hanover, which should have been first on the list, there were enough wet patches on that I decided it would be prudent to leave it alone. ‘Perhaps tomorrow,‘ I thought to myself. Perhaps. Providing there is a snatch of time large enough to do any good with the detail work that is waiting for attention

The portrait of Lockkeeper could be worked on elsewhere with a printed reference photo, so I didn’t give that any more than a thought or two throughout the day.

That left the large painting. It has been about ten days since I last worked on that one, so it was quite dry and ready for new paint. It is still in the under painting stage and I’m still attempting to regain my footing after stumbling badly on the horses, so I finished painting them out and now have a very nice landscape that either needs additional landscape features or some horses. It can be set aside until I get the horses redrawn, which I can do anywhere.

I also had hoped to get the first draft of my rewrite polished enough to print and deliver to my sister, but that was almost as difficult as getting the under painting on Guienne Hanover done. One section of dialogue in one chapter in the last third of the story has been resisting completion for most of the last week. Everything after that could be affected by that dialogue. I did finally get it figured out and got all the way through to the epilogue, so it’s almost done.

Most of the rest of the day was given to winterizing the house (it’s about time, I think), house chores and blog maintenance, as well as preliminary trip planning duties and all the usual Monday things (bookkeeping, laundry and so on). All necessary to the smooth functioning of a household.

As always, thanks for reading and best wishes!

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