Potatoes Growing

Today we got some watering for the potatoes. As you can see from the ones in the front which look a bit stressed this is needed. We have been lucky though with at least little bits of rain now and then still falling to help the plants along. 

Our First Paddle of the Summer

A Glorious day today and a chance to go for a paddle to try out our Christmas presents from Atalanta of PFD's. Off to Blue Rock Lake. I still can't work out how to paddle straight, but it is still fun paddling in the warm still air. Resting on the water, taking in the view and the silence. Now back at home my skin is can still feel the touch of the sun, although not burnt. My fingers smell of sunblock. The evocative smell of summer.

On Christmas Day

Walking back to the house on the post prandial walk. We'd walked to see how trees planted on our tree planting days were going. In particular the woolamai pine. We'd eaten well and enjoyed conversation with one heated exchange peppering up proceedings.

Agustina Latter

A tiny bit more.

Agustina

Agustina not yet finished. The colour looks a bit out of control, but I quite like it.

Agueda Stuttering

Trying to find my way through to delight.

Tullycavan

The first day of summer.

Fiddling with Agustin and Agueda

 I've fiddled a little more with Agustin lifting some shapes back through a stencil a bit.

I've taken out the white bits and am back to contemplation again.

Stages through Agustin

Agustin from beginning to where it is at at the moment.

Where I stopped today,

Agneta After Awhile

I played in Gimp and then painted in the results. I'm feeling content, but who knows how long that will last.

You can see the first potatoes coming up

Potatoes are emerging. So far so good. Now I look to the weather forecasts for rain or mist. It's going to be fun getting water to these plants. 

Vegetable Garden

We are planting vegetables, so far mostly potatoes. Here is Athena planting other things. Corn, beans etc. It will be interesting to see how all this turns out. Despite the pipe across soil we will have limited water to the vegetables so it will be interesting to see the results. I have heard that the best tasting vegetables are grown without irrigation, but they are 1/10th the productivity of irrigated food. 

Grass and trees

Agnetha & Agneta

 A chromatic neutral over the ground. Hmm.

Fiddling. Hmm.

Agneta and Agnetha

A bit more playing towards stasis.

Agust

Not quite delightful, but alright.

A bit more Agueda

I was inspired to tweak Agueda.

Agueda

More working through my latest theme.

The steps in creating Agueda

A Little Bit More Agota

I'm not exactly sure about the changes I've made, but there is not going back.

A Tractor Trip

Today I had a tractor trip. Travelling slower and higher than normal. It was a delight.

Agota

The ground looks good to me. The overlaid shapes need a little work.

Dark Sky

Taken in a shopping centre car park for its lovely atmospherics.

Agostino

A similar process to Agostina, but with shapes to provide a contrast and a quiet conversation amongst the humming.

The Stages of Agostina

Six stages in the life of Agostina. Egg tempera on paper. Contemplation stage now.

Video for Sound

The lovely sound of frogs.

Later bird call, a little hard to hear

More Tempera Sketches and a Transformation of Agneta

 I enjoyed painting these and I think they've gone as far as they can. My main hesitation about them is the white which looks a bit arbitrary. 

Taking my cues from the sketches I've reworked Agneta. There is further to go.

Sketching in Egg Tempera

Today I wanted to make a painting or two in the quick reflexive way that I do from time to time. A little while ago I bought some rice paper. Today I cut up some pieces about 20 x 13 cm approximately and got going. My starting point was a painting from a couple of decades ago. A linear skeleton and then filling in the ground in a loose way. With a bit of later linear working in. Egg tempera seems to go well on rice paper. The idea came from seeing pictures in Jodhpur that were egg tempera on rice paper. It must have been very thick paper because they used to polish them with stone, I think.

Agathon and Agneta

 Today just doing the computer playing of awhile ago.

Editing and flattening the ground. 

Recently Read

 Grace's life has had some amazing incidents and events. Good and bad. The shoots that she has highlighted at the end show the photographers her passion enabling rich and beautiful visual tableaux.

Satisfying in a sweet way as Lucien grows up in a labyrinthine world to find resolution and love.

An Evening Sky

Lovely colour in the evening sky

The brush has reached my hand

 I've forgotten the name the name, but some computer, brush and slug editing.

Agneta with some computer editing

Dots and a Homecoming

  

Nicely Modernist.

I met my sister at the Station to drive her to her place. I like the random figures in the foreground, the movement and wondering what the story is?