Lights On In The Morning

Preparing for the day ahead when it is still dark outside is the most difficult part of November, December and January.

Lights are switched on everywhere.

Today’s Blipfoto is of a gouache drawing that Pat made in the summer of 2007 using a box of gouache sticks that I had bought in 1966, but had never used.

The colours were greens, browns and blacks.

Pat had been invited to a summer painting course held in the grounds of Fingask Castle.

The course leader was a Russian artist, whose name is not remembered, although his remark about "the box of not many colours" is.

The drawing is one of two. The frame of the second just edges into view.

The walls are the original 1841 colour exposed after removing the layers of unsuitable paints to allow the walls to breathe.

A wet day. A day for staying in. A day for FaceTime calls and for watching the highlights of the Grandprix.