"OK I'll do it but you should be aware, I'm not really a painter though."
"OK I'll do it but you should be aware, I'm not really a painter though."
@TheSimonEvans "but I'd like 13 apostles and one should look like me but have a halo".
This is what he wrote in a 1509 letter to his friend Giovanni da Pistoia while he was painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel: I've already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water's poison). My stomach's squashed under my chin, my beard's pointing at heaven, my brain's crushed in a casket, my breast twists like a harpy's. My brush, above me all the time, dribbles paint so my face makes a fine floor for droppings! My painting is dead. Defend it for me, Giovanni, protect my honor. I am not in the right place—I am not a painter.
@TheSimonEvans Two coats of magnolia should see it done.
@TheSimonEvans The side walls are pretty amazing too, but are seldom mentioned
@TheSimonEvans Now that's just showing off. 2 coats magnolia bosh, job done.
@TheSimonEvans The painters answer, “I’ll get my coat”.