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You may all have excellent memories, but mine wanders a bit. So this is a Memo to me as much as a suggestion to everyone else.
If you've got a stack of ideas for paintings - as I have, unusually, at the moment - but for one reason or another you can't get on with them immediately (this foul weather has brought on my arthritis and I can't manage anything other than a few light drawings) write them down; keep a journal; or of course do an outline sketch just to remind you - because knowing you've had some good ideas, and then forgetting them, is extremely dispiriting: a pain in the neck to go with the pain in the neck you already had (which is my most annoying and distressing symptom - worse than hands, knees, hips, back: if your neck aches, so does everything else and you've probably got a headache into the bargain) is not to be borne.
Knowing that you'll feel better in a while, AND that you have a schedule of work to be getting on with as soon as you can, stops depression setting in. It may seem very obvious, teaching grannies to suck eggs (a thing, by the way, that mine never, ever did!) but I've neglected to do it before now, and a bout of pain has passed leaving me rootless, confused, frustrated, and annoyed with myself. I'd better do it right now....
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Robert I have what I call my doodle book it’s a pad that I use for simple sketch’s , line drawings etc of ideas some never get beyond few line or make it to some better elsewhere. I occasionally use a part of the sketch/ doodle in a sketch or paintings it I suppose my ideas book never displayed but this is one of the pages .
