the number 10

painting is coming along. number 10 is proving someone what troublesome. or maybe it's my mood. i maybe at the end of this particular cycle or something, but i actually think it's because i had to change calligraphy nibs half way through which pulls my continuity out of line, which i am not particularly keen on. or maybe i'm just tired. i find that i need reanimation after a long period of constant work. my colour balancing seems off kilter somehow, but i know it's the ink work that needs doing and then it'll make sense hopefully. maybe i'm being a bit neurotic about painting this particular one because of external stimuli. there is an incongruence in the music that i've listened to. t.A.T.u and Wu Tang clan aren't particularly a positive colour stimulant for painting the way i do. but the beats help with the ink work. I'm a bit fed up with listening to the same music, but i don't want to listen to anything dreary. i've been through steely, family, a bit of journey and nightranger, a host of electric 80's i.e Human League etc. But the lack of guitar is getting to me. Neutral Milk Hotel and Adam Green are off the cards painting wise at the moment for various reasons, ditto Hendrix, Miles Davis and everything else. I need something lively, unassuming and unpretentious. not looking for suggestions.