Holiday Hangover ....

You would think that I would have come back from my break at the beach

bursting with inspiration and creativity

but instead I find myself doing some half assed sketches

and sort of catching up with some emails and things

and kind of getting the studio in shape

and trying to ignore the fact that the house has little drifts of sand everywhere

coutesy of the mutt

but most of the time I find myself dreaming of being back at the beach

listening to the pound of the surf and smelling the sea air 

and looking at some of the photos I took you can understand

wanting to try to extend the delusion of being on holidays

it is a great beach and is insanely quiet

despite being right smack bang in the middle of summer break

we swam in ocean and pool

Mushu the wonder mutt doubled his body weight in sand every walk

and had a great time barking at those pesky waves

we lay around and read a squillion books

I lost all the card games except one I think

and I may have cheated to do that ... just a bit

we didn't finish any crosswords despite starting about 6

and being very creative with some spelling

and everyday we went for rambling walks on the beach and board walk

Phantom would get a quite a way ahead on the board walk

not because she is especially speedy

mainly because I was always falling behind while trying to get the sand off my feet

which necessitating me hopping on one foot while juggling flip flops, camera 

and bits of sea glass and pebbles and things that I had collected

and almost falling over and tipping over the handrail into the scrub

so she heartlessly used the opportunity to get some distance

from the possible embarrassment of her mother doing a half pike into the bush

but I got the last laugh and got a rare photo of her butt

But now I find myself sitting at the computer

sadly drawing a tube of Flow paint that I left out in the insane hope

that the flow would indeed start

and I have a few little sketches I did at the beach

but can't find the motivation to scan or photograph them to share with you

so you are getting this sketch of laptop, camera and paint tube

not exactly holiday inspiration is it

but the first one is always the toughest after a break

so crossing fingers and still slightly sandy toes that the paintings start to flow soon

happy Paint Party Friday ...xx