Day 0044

I've been very depressed by the lack of interest in my online store for my drawings (despite paid online advertisements!), so in a fit of impetuousness I have booked a train to Paris as a distraction. I'm now deliriously excited by the prospect of the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay. I'm just in time to catch the Parmigianino drawing exhibition, which is an excellent stroke of luck. It'll be wonderful to compare his draughtsmanship with the fresh memories I have of Andrea del Sarto's drawings I saw a couple of weeks ago.

I don't know to what ultimate end all of this is for if no-one is interested in buying drawings any more, but it gives me pleasure and I'm sticking to it, even though there seems to be no prospect of making money from it all. Such a shame that drawing, which takes so much time (and therefore money) to learn, is not a career that has been voted for by capitalism.