Finally sunshine, but still very cold.  I've been carrying on with the April Plein Air month, painting daily with gouache.  However, progress has been pretty bad.  I don't like this stuff as an outdoor medium.  Think it is something that will stay indoors! Still messing about with oil paints and oil pastels on a Wednesday.  Winter Plein Air was at Carisbrooke this Friday.  Again very cold and limited sunshine.

Did two sketches at the same time.  I moved between the two as they were drying.  These are of Beatrice's garden.

 Managed to finally move the boat off the mooring on Sunday.  Step by step but we did get up the river and  Muffin was ok. Next step is down the river towards the Solent.

Missed a couple of swimming sessions and felt really guilty, but I did go on Thursday.  Apparently feeling guilty is the norm!

 So much for thinking April was going to be a turning point! Wet and incredibly windy.   I have been doing Pleinairpril every day with gouache, but every day the painting has turned out a disaster.  Even painting outside at Arreton Barns on Friday I produced absolute rubbish.  Been a bad week for all my painting.  I think I need to concentrate a bit more instead of rushing.

I have been trying a bit of book binding.  Which started off ok, but yesterday's session the presenter made a mistake, which I obviously followed, and then had to redo bits.  However, it is only the first and prototype for me.

The dogs keep getting each other into trouble.  How on earth do they manage to do that?  The awning has not been finished for the boat, even though I told the guys cutoff was end of March.  On top of all that, swimming has been a bit indifferent.

Perhaps next week will be ok.