Why on earth...

Today is a gloomy day. I’d say it’s one of those typical Sundays when you stay at home. When I was little, that was a must, on Sundays you weren’t allowed to go anywhere. The weather isn’t helping and you’re feeling a bit bored.

I’m not bored, quite the opposite, but I have kept my work to a minimum. More and more often, when I’ve had a super-busy day and have literally worked myself to the bone, I need two days to recover. This is the second day and tomorrow it’s back to work full steam ahead, because I’ve promised to be present on a day out.

It helps that it’s raining; there’s not much to do outside, and before it started raining I’d already mowed half a hectare. Yesterday, my ‘taking it easy’ consisted of painting early, nothing specific, just trying out a few things, and that went rather "wrong". More ugly art was born. And then I think: why on earth am I wasting my time and materials on this, but the truth is that, even when I’m tired, it’s simply relaxing and gives me a good feeling to have got something done. Nevertheless,the paintings were spread out on the floor to dry. The first thing I did this morning was pick them up, study them and see if there was anything in it that I hadn’t seen yesterday and which had therefore caused that slight disappointment.

All I can say today is that I’m pleased with the result; it could have been much worse. I numbered it and I need to touch up a few bits here and there, and no, I’m not going to make a collage, as I thought I would last night before going to bed. I might touch up here and there, but even that isn’t certain today, who knows, maybe it’ll be something for a future project.

_{Prompt: see title
7-5-2026
Forest 1
Materials: Bamboo paper, thin acrylic paint (the cheap ones that is left. I added 30% water to pour it on the paper. No brush needed. Let it flow or press another paper on it. )}