Painting out in marlow today (18th July , Sunday). Talked to lots of people. The temperature was racing towards 30 degrees and ice creams were being devoured at alarming rates. My perculier parstime stopped caused quite a lot of interest. My time was evenly split between painting and and offered good customer service, such as giving directions and tips on painting with paddle sized pallet knives. Many onlookers were very interesting in there own right and seemed to be on varying random missions quite different in nature. One couple had ashes to sprinkle on the river Thames, an other had a Porsche he wanted to feature in my painting, starring role of course. I later discovered the owner made a living from painting cars, so perhaps he was putting me to the test. One chap was a baker at Burgers and a family I met were in the midst of walking the entire Thames during lock down, embarking on the marlow-Henley section that day, with kids and dogs in tow as happy as could be they marched off to the river for 9 miles of hot trekking:-) I finished my painting when the sun crept under my tree and began to gentle bake me. The Porsche got star billing, closely followed by 4 very well loved lambretta scooters, all of which hadn’t been counted on and which required painstaking attention to detail for most of the morning. So I hope the painting sells to either the Porsche owner, the scooter owners or the vicar.
Wonderful! X
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