Ouch!

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

Just as I was getting excited for my trip to the Italian Riviera to paint for 7 days, I broke my big toe!

At first I thought it was just badly bruised but when things didn’t improve after a week, I went into the local urgent care walk-in clinic (Penrith - I highly recommend it!)

They took an x-ray, and it showed that the end of my toe is definitely pointing in a weird direction.

I have to go to the Fracture Clinic next week to see if they want to do anything with it, and meantime I am taping it to another toe and walking very gingerly. Depending on the hospital verdict, I may have to cancel my trip. To be honest, I’m also a bit worried about how I’ll cope with the travel.

We’ll see.

The painting that landed on my toe was consigned to the bonfire, and I cheered when it started to burn. Good riddance!

In brighter news, my new series of paintings is coming along and I’m beginning to see a possible theme emerging. As always, it’s not the one I imagined when I started out. I planned dark colours, veils of grey, shards of bright colour peeping through… instead I seem to be getting vivid bright colours that zing off the canvas. I’ve learned that we can’t fight these things - the art knows what it wants to be.

I’ve also finished editing my next Artist’s Diary video, which I’ll send out later in the week. It’s the story of a painting that was almost fabulous…. almost :)