Day 2 in Ptuj

On the second day in Ptuj we moved into the studio and Ben began work on his paintings and customized postcards. The day was spent in there, working behind Marek's Anarchist Cookie Shop, before going to the local Amadeus restaurant for dinner.

This is what the studio looked like when we arrived.

Setting out some of the stencils to get the art juices flowing.

I put Owen to work helping to set up the canvases for painting. We stapled them directly into the wall.

The canvas for the biggest painting.

Owen posing in the Anarchist Cookie Shop.

A nice red ground on the vertical piece and the start on the postcard pieces.

Owen in the Ptuj mall where we went to get more paint and needles and thread to finish the edges of the canvases pieces. It is amazing how malls are the same the world over.

My paint. Liquid Lukas. Took a little bit of fooling around with the paint to get a feel for it and to mix the colours I wanted.

The anarchist baker at work.

View of the entrance to the Hotel Silak - the second reddish building on the right side of the street. It was a very comfortable hotel.

Owen posing in the window of the Anarchist Cookie Shop. My studio and later gallery was in the gallery space behind the Anarchist Cookie Shop.

Dinner at the chicken restaurant. We had vouchers to eat here each day. They specialize in and are famous for all of the ways they prepare chicken and are owned by the largest chicken processing facility in all of Slovenia (possibly Europe?).