the community paint pot is a wonder… it’s two well-made and obviously well-used wooden(!) tool boxes full of old time sign painters’ tools – which means a lot of string, gold and silver leaf (which is actually bronze and aluminium) and various different kinds of sizing, resin and varnish, but there are also very many different sized lettering brushes (which i have never had, but always lusted after), including some interesting home-made brushes that give me a really good idea of what to do with the ends of the violin bows that i have been schlepping around with me for the past 20 years, and the following paints: lettering white, lettering black, fire red, bright red, orange, chrome yellow, lemon yellow, process green, emerald green, dark green, peacock blue, light blue, brilliant blue, dark blue and maroon enamel, plus bright red, dark green, dark blue, black and white flat paint (which i probably won’t be using). my contribution to the community paint pot will be black, red, green and blue paint, and a quart can of one-shot thinner.

now, how to improvise a compass big enough for the roof of my car?

i made an arrangement with kelly to pick up the community paint pot today, and now i’m so anxious to get it over here so that i can start on my ganesha yantra that i have been awake for 2 hours that i ordinarily would have slept through… now i’ve got all the things that i normally do by noon finished already, and it’s only 9:00… and i don’t get to pick up the community paint pot until 2:30 this afternoon… aargh!