Paris 2024

 I am a bit confused today, I feel like everything is out of sync. Paintings are posted online in some places and not others, new paintings need to be done, stock needs to be checked and reordered, a new painting needs to be put up for sale, real life admin needs to be taken care of. I guess the problem with deciding to just paint is that then a backlog of the other stuff grows.

I do however have a useful list I need to do this week, it has 40 things on it so far but I have ticked off 14 items already, 15 once this has been written, and if I check my print mounting supplies and finish a new Instagram reel that will be 17 things, so almost halfway there (lemon on a pear).  

But back to the main reason for writing this reel, which is another new painting! This one is Olympic inspired as recently everything has been about Paris 2024. It has been difficult not to get sucked in one way or another - starting with the build up and the opening ceremony, a lot of which centred around the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings on the tower lining up with the moon. I have never actually painted the Eiffel Tower before so now seemed like as good a time as any. I had in mind a painting I have created previously of the Leaning Tower of Pisa which had the flag of Italy in the background, so surprise, surprise, here is the Eiffel Tower with the flag of France in the background.

I was quite pleased with how this one turned out, as whilst a bit quirky, wonky and not entirely accurate it has the perfect feel to it, so in that respect, mission accomplished! Tom Dean, the swimmer who won gold for the 4 x 200m freestyle relay in Paris for Team GB lives just up the road from me, perhaps he would like it as a souvenir!