Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper. While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!

DAY ELEVEN

Yesterday, I spent a few hours getting my eyeballs examined, poked, prodded, and tortured and the conclusion is that my left eye is forever borked (until some miracle of medicine comes along) and my right eye isn’t as barricaded by tiny burns as he would like, so I’m heading in to get that done this morning.


The plan is to make my retina so solidly stuck to the back of my eyeball that I won’t have to worry about it anymore, and while I am dreading this (because it really fucking hurt last time), I appreciate his care for me as an artist who really needs her sight.
He is taking this seriously, and so, my loves, am I.I was going to forgo this morning’s sessions but the snow ploughs are out singing the song of my people and I didn’t want to sit here feeling sorry for myself, so I banged this out.

She came through, and I think she’s going to stay. We’ll see. (OR WILL WE DUN DUN DUN! *Cacklesobs*

The whole session was done with Stabilo All Pencil. I don’t know if I’ll see you tomorrow. It depends on how today goes!

 

This is how it’s going so far.

If I should get lost in the snow, send a St. Bernard with hot chocolate in his rescue cask to find me, mmmmkay?

Also, please wish me luck. I’m approaching the end of my patience with the Invisibles. ❤

Stay tuned…
xo
Effy

P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.

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