Egg omelette with banana and prunes for breakfast. Three eggs in a jug, beaten, a quick flick under the water tap, add a tablespoon of milled flaxseed, sunflower seeds, etc., mashed banana, pitted prunes.
Place in a frying pan
Add a Kiwi fruit and a teaspoon of local honey.
Normally the omelette comes out the pan in a nice tidy shape, but today it decided not too. Not pretty, but tasted delicious.
This plate is one of a set that I bought in the 1970's, our very first dinner service. The cups are brown on the outside and orange on the inside. I loved them so much that I put them away into a cupboard - until about six months ago - and now I don't like them. Very dated, very orange, very brown - but they do hold some memories....so they will do for the kitchen.
I was looking in the mirror today - and couldn't believe that there are more wrinkles. How did they appear so quickly.
I remember when my brother and I were around ten or eleven years old, there were two books in the cabinet in the living room. One was "On Becoming a Woman" and the other "On Becoming a Man". Our parents had bought these for us to read and understand. I have never seen a book yet that says "On Becoming an Old Woman" or even "On Becoming an Old Man". So I really don't know what to expect - and you can't ask your friends because they don't know either.....and you can't ask an even older person as they don't remember what happened and when....so we all have to find that road and follow it ourselves....
Today I attended an Art drop in group, with someone I knew who was a lot older and said she would be interested to come along. Only half way the session, she was nodding off and kept apologizing she couldn't keep awake. As she wasn't familiar with the area, I packed up my gear and we both left for the bus home.
The Art group is for anyone, whether you are a professional or an amateur, it does matter, it is an informal group for you to meet and sit and paint or draw. I am still trying to get the portraits right - still not happy with my attempts and now too embarrassed to show what I did today.
Last evening, I worked on the portrait again. As I said before I am a complete beginner. Loved Art in my school days - both history and actual drawing and painting. But at the age of 15 I left school and lived and worked and collected books from boot sales using every media there was, but never got back into doing what I loved most. I wasn't that good in those days - so now it is more difficult to achieve - but I am trying - hard - and won't give up.
So last night I look at the portrait again - and I did know it wasn't right, so I painted over the canvas and start again - and for the next couple hours I painted the picture of the actor I had on my phone (my phone is smothered in Acrylic paint).
How did it go? Well I still can't see the person in the painting. The eyes need some improvement, so does the nose and the mouth.....yes that mouth - it isn't defined lips, it is the mouth of an older person where you have pale lips and some blue bits - I still haven't got it right - and those teeth - nobody looks like that. I have drawn the teeth, but they are too uniform and this person has older off white teeth and set back differently. So in the next couple days it is "paint out the mouth and try again".
This.......
Is now this.....
A bit of a lazy day today - done the usual housework, but could not get into any of my projects. Put it down to waking too late (8.15 a.m.). Very unusual for me, but it does happen sometimes. I am very much a "late to bed, early to rise" kind of person. I even had an hours nap this afternoon - not normal for me!
One other painting I have started is "I have eyes for you".
In one of my quiet moments last week, decided to try my hand at eyes. Not finished yet. Since painting these, I started receiving emails with links to sites on "how to paint eyes" or "how to draw eyes". So now plenty of watching and learning to keep me occupied.
I would also like to try 3D art. Oh yes I have done a few pencil sketches of simple ones, but never quite looks the same as, for example, an artist draws a glass of water and it looks as though it is standing right there in the middle of the table and yet when it is turned round it is a completely different shape. An optical illusion.
Well I woke just after the crack of dawn, thinking of all the things I wanted to do today, and what needed to be done before I went to the Art Workshop.
It was just too early to start, so I read for one and half hours and then got out the knitting. The last time I picked up this was the end of last month at the Craft evening. Knitting before breakfast - is a little odd I know.
So all ready - art materials in the car and off we go. Only a five minute drive and we are there. Very hot day today, but surprisingly cool in the room all day. Today's lesson is boats and reflections.
I always wanted to learn - I am a beginner - I have no skill and no natural gift - and it is frustrating - so frustrating that my first attempt (not the picture above - that was the afternoon exercise), was so bad - I re-started with a new sheet - and even then the completed work was rubbish.
The afternoon session was easier, the subject was better for a start, but still the finished work was nothing like the other students. We had a really good teacher - an artist - who is very patient and did say to me "that is much better", but it isn't good enough for me. I still need to find a style I am comfortable with. Practice makes perfect - that I got to see - in time.
We finished at 4 p.m. and on the way out, this was tempting - but I didn't give in.....books for a donation in the box - nah I still got over 600 to read at home..
The heat hit us on the way out - 34 degrees C in the car was just too much. So glad to be home - I am totally exhausted.
