Wednesday is crunch day

The Cake House (work in progress)

Acrylic on canvas

14 x  18 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011

Wednesday is a long, long day -- made longer
by the strange weather at the end of it. Freezing
rain and snow.  I am lucky to be able to come home
after this day (safely) and to settle down to paint
listening to great radio shows on CBC radio.
Tonight I painted on my "cake house" painting.
I've been trying to move it to a slightly more
abstract mode, but it is resisting me.  Still what
fun.  I love painting houses (and still life, and
portraits and landscape).  I just love painting.

I tried to keep this a bit more muted because it's
about one of those gloomy/bright winter days.
Tomorrow I'll give the house a bit more depth
maybe, and then expand the trees in front of it.
I may even put in the quirky fence.  The house
sprung up just behind our local park.  There's a
beautiful section that runs through a hilly wood.
Left alone the woods block out the view of the
houses backing onto the park.  But it seems
like the owners of this house have cleared some
of the trees away while they were building.  The
up side of that is that I could get a great view of
the house.

Meanwhile I am working on some other paintings
that can't go public just yet. The more I look
at the cake house, the more I imagine a house with
large rooms with a studio that could accommodate
massive paintings.  Now that would be nice!

Have a dreaming-of-a-wonderful-life day.