It is amazing how easily life can just take over and time just disappears!! Today was the first day in a week that I have picked up my brush and managed to paint and that was for only two hours, updated image next to blog. The relief just to get two hours in was fab. I do not know about you but I get such a craving to paint or draw its amazing and very frustrating to say the least as you can become a right pain to live with when the craving starts. Everyone seems to be getting in the way, when really its the craving thats niggling you. So a whole week without painting I have been nearly tearing my hair out. When I have a piece on the go no matter how much I am enjoying it I need to get it finished and in my eyes to its best.
At this stage of the painting I am starting to get really excited as I can begin to see the end. The canvas is nearly covered and the colours in their rightful places. Once the canvas is covered the detail will be put in and the smoothing of the water will take place. This will complete the picture and will be finished by the early part of next week, Tuesday. Now you may be wondering what takes this women so long to finish a piece like this I would be done in a day or two days max from start to finish!!! You would be right and that is how long it will take me when you add up my hours put in. At present I am at 6hrs max.
This is where my planning and conquering is going to come in.
Background – I have two young boys, one still not in school. As the home worker, I am including the males of this world who are the stay at home parent, there is one hundred and one jobs to do in and around school and home life. Therefore I am going to do less painting to try and get more of a work life balance.
Monday morning will be 90 minutes on my business, cleaning the house and gardening.
Tuesday morning – painting, afternoon painting with my local Arts Society.
Wednesday morning – painting
Thursday day out photographing and painting
Friday – Upstairs cleaning, keeping the accounts and gardening
Saturday with the family
Sunday – At Wimborne Market selling my paintings, cards and photographs.
Interpersed through out the days, generally lunch time and evenings, I will be reading, tweeting, facebooking and blogging here letting you know how I am getting on.
Thats the plan it may be a good one or a bad one but its worth a try as I need to organise myself better.
Let me know what sort of plans you have and what you think of mine.
The next time I will blog will be when I have finished my picture hoping for Tuesday evening. I will also be looking into the directions that I wish to take this year.
Take care all
Gilly
