Daydream thread continues.....

rhiwfield

So its bucketing down and windy, just the weather to stay in, so why is the world trying to fit in to the local shopping centre :eek:

Horns blaring, tempers fraying, its mayhem. Anyhow, as we've at least 8 parcels to send off tomorrow we popped into the shoe store and Homebase to stock up on lots of boxes, before a quick, relaxing shop at LIDL.

With the weather like it is, maybe you might have time to help with this. I've come to a dead end on researching another painting, in this case prob early 20th century, gouache (?). Question is, who's the artist.

INITIALS
PAINTING

Prob a tourist piece knocked up by a local artist, but who knows? It was framed locally, will be trying to track down framers via local museum tomorrow. Looks to be painted on light canvas then glued to board.

Itismehonest

rhiwfield wrote: »

So its bucketing down and windy, just the weather to stay in, so why is the world trying to fit in to the local shopping centre :eek:

Horns blaring, tempers fraying, its mayhem. Anyhow, as we've at least 8 parcels to send off tomorrow we popped into the shoe store and Homebase to stock up on lots of boxes, before a quick, relaxing shop at LIDL.

With the weather like it is, maybe you might have time to help with this. I've come to a dead end on researching another painting, in this case prob early 20th century, gouache (?). Question is, who's the artist.

INITIALS
PAINTING

Prob a tourist piece knocked up by a local artist, but who knows? It was framed locally, will be trying to track down framers via local museum tomorrow. Looks to be painted on light canvas then glued to board.

BVG in that area is the Bassa Via del Garda (the Lower Garda way/route), rhiw. Maybe there is more information behind the mounting which can't be seen?

rhiwfield

Itismehonest wrote: »

BVG in that area is the Bassa Via del Garda (the Lower Garda way/route), rhiw. Maybe there is more information behind the mounting which can't be seen?

Itsme, you're a star even if it isnt by VVG's lesser known brother! It could still be an artists initials but your suggestion may well be right.

Its been out of frame so that we could photo initials and thats all that is visible

It was with the Lugg watercolour, not having much luck with these!

rozeepozee

Well, Z made a fish and I made the base of a basket, so I now have the rudimentary knowledge to make the rest of it, though I don't imagine it'll be very beautiful. Just have to find some willow on the land tomorrow (or when it stops bucketing down).

I agree with you Alf, about skills. What is useful depends upon your environment. Rustic basketweaving would not have been a particularly attractive craft for me in my former life in London. Now I can see it coming in useful in loads of way: making receptacles (the motivation for this was that I didn't want to spend £5 each on some tubtrugs to put the kids shoes in), making supports for plants, making hedges and screens, dens for the kids....

Itismehonest

rhiwfield wrote: »

Itsme, you're a star even if it isnt by VVG's lesser known brother! It could still be an artists initials but your suggestion may well be right.

Its been out of frame so that we could photo initials and thats all that is visible

It was with the Lugg watercolour, not having much luck with these!

It's a pity there's nothing else to go by to track it down

I think that whoever painted it was either walking the BVG or painted it from the BVG looking further round the coast toward Gardone.

But, yep, you could give it a try as Bert, younger sibling of Vinny :cool:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

got nowhere REALLY fast today :mad:

got a load of eggs on the boil, so i can make some egg ( and onion) mayonaise for sandwiches tomorrow...

Will be glad when all these bank holidays are over, as they allways throw me this time of the year.....

The thing is with having a very long bank holiday... you dont feel like going back to work:rotfl:

Rhiwie wish i could make a good living out of chickens and eggs like the previous owner did all those years ago.....I am going to ask hubby to bring that cash book home with him ( him and youngest are up there now sorting out the old rock albums, which ones are keepers and ones which they are going to try and seller to a record dealer in town) guess who will be having the money for them ( yep youngest)

Right better go and rescue the eggs from boiling dry:rotfl:
( hate this blinking weather, spoiling my fun)

rozeepozee

I've got similar frustrations, CTC, attributable to having very small children. There's really nothing that you can get done with them around so the "holidays" (whoever called them Easter holidays, didn't have small children) have been a total wash out, even if it weren't for the weather. I'm really tired. The children are sending me half deranged and the only solution at this stahe is to hit the red wine.

Tomorrow we have the grand luxury of a few hours without the kids as they are all going to the childminders til after lunch. It could not come soon enough. When you're self employed it's tempting not to use childcare as it's an unneccessary expense when we can juggle the children between us instead, but not having any sort of break from them 24/7 takes it's toll, as lovely as they are. (My only respite is hiding behind the computer!)

alfie_1

itsme.......be on standby please....as soon as camera battery recharged then you will be officially "back to work"

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

itsme.......be on standby please....as soon as camera battery recharged then you will be officially "back to work"

:rotfl:
F.A.B. alf. :rotfl:

Itismehonest

That's Find Alfie's Bits, by the way :beer:

It's been a thoroughly miserable day here. If anyone further east is waiting for it to clear up from my direction ......... forget it. Brown water running down the lane & the animals all look like variations on the theme of "drowned rat."