Just a little on the painting today which I shall post tomorrow. Most of the time was spent placing paintings on one of the walls in our studio/gallery 'Rigmarole Gallery'. It is a working studio as well as little gallery built at our home as a separate building to the house. It is always a pleasure to work in it and, my wife and I will have a public exhibition there at the end of July which will be under the title of 'Christmas in July' our coldest month of the year in the southern hemisphere. It is amazing the difference a frame makes. The two oils are the same size but with different sized frames. When selecting a frame, I try to choose a mixture of traditional and modern but sometimes the cost is also a consideration. The frame on 'Ellen's Stardust Diner was half the cost of the frame on 'Reflections, W51st New York'. The smaller watercolours are framed for economy so that a purchaser can change it to one more to their own taste. The one propped up, on the floor, 'Le Scarpe delle Donne' is framed with a very narrow matt because it will be my entry to a small works competition with a size restriction.