Most of the day was devoted to my Open Studio preparations. The framed pictures needed to have cord attached ready for hanging. I purchased some fresh white emulsion and polyfiller and then spent an hour in the garage sanding and then filling the holes from previous years exhibitions in the display boards affixed to the walls.
Miss T then valiantly donned protective garb and tackled the re-coating of all the mounting boards with the white emulsion over a couple of hours.
With temperatures in the mid twenties Centigrade, the emulsion dried extremely rapidly, so we progressed to planning the hanging of the chosen collection. Having established a suitable arrangement, we then took another couple of hours to carefully align and hang the pictures.
The slow progress in hanging is due to the need to ensure that there is an underlying structure to the pattern of the pictures, most commonly, ensuing that pictures in a row across a wall all share the same height from the floor at their top side. This gives a clean line to the eye. Second rows and the attention paid to alignment of columns is also critical.
The evening was spent entertainingly at the Huntingdonshire Speakers meeting of our Toastmasters International Club.
The day still left me drained as my body apparently continued to be in recovery from the weekend's illness.
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