Painting start about 5.30 in earnest. I'm getting a lot done since I started waking up obscenely early. Sun isn't up yet. Got a good bit of painting done. On my first break just to write some bilge on here and then bam to the grindstone which is not a grindstone but a painting. I'm trying to make a series before the end of today so I can phone the framers and ask to switch the paintings. But need them finished first.
Finished a painting. Did too much. These new meds make me feel so sick. Helps a lot with intrusive thoughts and contamination stuff but feel sick and low. Anyway, so the work is coming on.
Up at 6 to paint. I wake up at 5/6 now anyway because I'm old, and or stupid. This is the recipe for success. Or tiredness. Pick one. So anyway got the paint work finish on another 20 x 20 and now I'm going to go to a supermarket to do some grocery shopping. Then hopefully resume painting this afternoon.
So making progress. Got some stuff down. Working hard. My beautiful wife to be brought me a cup of tea which was lovely. Working working. Under coated 4 more boards and it's all happening.
Struck with intense feeling of worthlessness when I dropped off the paintings to be framed so I'm doing another 8 which are more in my established style. I found that there was too much of an ache.
There is actually a physical pain associated with this nonsense. Chest + stomach pains and tiredness. I have already completed two of the new set of 8 and there are another two drying before first round of ink. I just can't shake the feeling this is all a total waste of time. I don't feel like I can ever be happy with painting or pots. It's all so exhausting and heart breaking.
"my name is mike and at some point in the 90's i was swimming in the sea and got eaten by a whale, like noah, and then i got pissed off with the smell of plankton and did a street fighter 2 punch, and punched out the top of the whale. He was pretty pissed off, but it was ok in the end because it turned out that he was really into cornflakes. so i got him a couple of boxes of cornflakes and he kind of chilled out, until we both wanted the free gift and then he totally went ape shit and smashed up my kitchen with his tail and spat half chewed cornflakes out of his blow hole. and my mum was well pissed off about having to clean it off the ceiling."