#180 Strap Hanger

This strap hanger, used on the back of larger pictures to hook onto heavy duty picture hooks really has nothing to fo with putting the degree show up this week because no-one chose to hang their pictures this way. Shame really as I have only just got to terms with using the stupid things! Oil on gesso 16cm x 12cm.

#179 Picture Hook

It was 110 days ago on day #69 when I painted a single nail picture hook that was taken out of the wall and encrusted with paint. This double nail brass plated picture hook (no3) was one i found in my box of things 'n' tools at work and thought it a perfect object for degree show week tool 'n' equipment series of paintings. Oil on gesso 16cm x 12cm.

#178 Mini Screwdriver

The next degree show hanging tool; this tiny screwdriver, perfect for opening tins of paint, shame I found it today really as we finished most of the painting on Monday. Oil on gesso 16cm x 12cm.

#177 Bradawl

Second in my week of degree show related objects is this bradawl. Otherwise known as a bodger, little pointy thing or wall stabber. I like the old wooden handle types best but I do admire the unnecessary over design of the handle on these modern ones. Oil on gesso 16cm x 12cm.

#176 Mirror Plate

We have started to hang the students degree show at the Fine Art Department at the University of Gloucestershire (plug). I had always intended to paint a mirror plate this week at some point and I found this one with pink paint on it this morning and pocketed it straight away for painting this evening. A mirror plate is a clever fixing for attaching paintings to the walls. We will be using an awful lot of them over the next few days as we fix lots of pictures to walls. Oil on gesso 16cm x 12cm.