http://paulcato.com/blog » Uncategorized http://paulcato.com/blog Paintings and updates from New Zealand artist, Paul Cato Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:15:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 More visitors drop out of the sky http://paulcato.com/blog/more-visitors-drop-out-of-the-sky/ http://paulcato.com/blog/more-visitors-drop-out-of-the-sky/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:32:21 +0000 Paul Cato http://paulcato.com/blog/?p=142 I just sat down for a cup of coffee around noon and heard a helicopter close by. There’s nothing too unusual about that because they often fly around here and quite a few guests have flown in over the years. Usually I get a phone-call first but this one just kept getting louder until I was face-to-face, through the window, with the pilot and a chopper full of visitors.

Just as well the roses aren’t blooming yet or Sharon would have been upset to see them blown to bits. It was her idea to plant them right next to where helicopter pilots like to land, but they just HAD to go right there!

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When visitors come to my studio they get to see beautifully framed paintings, unframed work, work in progress – the whole range. They see the paint-covered rags, the stash of brushes beside my pallet and smell the poppy and safflower oils in the wet paint. I’ll be attempting to convey just a little of what it’s like in my studio. Pity I can’t give you the paint smells to go along with it.

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