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9 Monday 26th December 2011 3.00pm Boxing Day I met Anthony the farmer on my way out across the hill to paint. He saw my painting gear and we chatted about my project and his cows and I said they had watched me painting a couple of weeks ago. He said that today, just beyond where I will be working, there are primroses in flower, on Boxing Day! Sure enough, I went to look and there they were, just three of them in the little hollow with hawthorn bushes next to the footpath about 10 meters beyond my viewpoint. In spring there will be many of them flowering there. He also said it wouldn’t rain this afternoon. It did, well misling damp and misty rain. It didn’t stop me working but by the time I finished there were large droplets of water trickling down the canvas, not a good idea when you are working in oils. The paint started to behave differently with the colours not mixing properly so I stopped, but it made for a boldly painted piece of work. A buzzard circled and called out below me as I worked. The paint has been lifted off the canvas by the water droplets so there are spots of canvas showing.
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