Painting in paradise sounds wonderful in theory but is difficult in practice; there are just so many distractions! Exotic birds call needing to be photographed and identified, the beautiful beach always beckons, and then there are friends like Wendy asking if I am maybe interested in hiking up to a new waterfall or looking for turtle hatchlings or something equally interesting.
Then back at home there are still daily chores: dishes and laundry which can hardly be considered work when you have the view that the kitchen sink commands:
And then it’s pretty fun to harvest something for breakfast, which means finding it first in the gardens that fall away in each direction from the house.
I have managed to work however, and have designed several large paintings and painted a large composition which is 36” wide and 12 feet long. Unfortunately, I lost most of my dyes on the flight down when they leaked at altitude from their little containers. Fortunately, I had triple wrapped them so none of that intense dye escaped into the interior of my suitcase, but I was left with precious little to actually apply to the silk. I did manage to finish these kois before the jars ran dry.
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