Painting: still life

Cup and saucer, green with dots
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 25 cm

When you travel in the company of someone who doesn't paint, you tend not to paint very much yourself.   I did very little painting in Europe and arrived home with a need to paint that has resulted in small pictures of favorite things.

Here is my green cup and saucer.

A different green

When you travel from Australia to northern Europe the thing that impresses most is the greenness of your new environment. Green green green, rushing past the train windows, green when you look out your window, green everywhere ... apart from inner city Berlin where green becomes grey.

European green

Australian green

Breathing deeply in Hamburg's green

After five days in the middle of Berlin the lush green of Hamburg sooths the travel weary soul.

The Irish and the Attic

There is a big football game on in Maribor tomorrow night. The hostel I was in was booked out for the 2nd/3rd and the owner (a native Liverpudlian who has managed to live here for 3 years without learning the language) asked me to move out for the two nights. She appeared with a towel-wrapped head yesterday when I handed back the key and was apologetic about keeping me waiting. She had just peroxided her hair. In the meantime the town is filling with football fans. I can't understand their lingo but their shirts are bright green. Even the Irish couldn't get greener shirts.

Oh, what's that? It is the Irish? Right, that would explain not understanding the lingo.

My new abode is a cute little attic room in the Uni Hotel on the town square. It is a real pleasure having a space (and bathroom) for myself instead of sharing with ten others and I have decide to stay here for the duration.