A Slimmer Me?

Trust me, if I lost much much weight at all, people would have a hard time finding me. Okay, so bad analogy to what I'm about to say...

With everything that I thought that needed to be done - I was finding it hard to find the time to paint. That is, afterall, what I'm supposed to be doing, right? So as a last ditch resort to figure out where all the time was going, I became friends with a calendar where I carefully logged how each and every minute of every day was being spent. I've done that for the past month now. A couple days ago, when I took the magic markers to the calendar, highlighting blocks of time in different colors by types of activity, well, don't tell me that wasn't an eye-opener. Something's gotta go.

While I can't say that a lot of time's been wasted, per se, changes are badly needed to more efficiently get what needs to be done, done.

One area for improvement is the amount of time I spend blogging, and while it can be an important source of new traffic to the online "eGallery," - this one taking a back seat to other more popular blogs - maintaining several blogs at the same time is, well, a waste of time. So I'll be looking to write blog entries that can be essentially duplicated across the board, at least until I can find the time to figure out how that blasted RSS thingie works.

Anyway, in the midst of everything going down - including doing website design for others to keep cash coming in - I've managed to see several new canvases leave the studio - (see online eGallery link) - a couple of 'em I'm even proud to say, "I did that."

"Goldfinches" is gone too, hanging in a friend's shopt. Whoever wrote the artist's commandment, "Thou shalt not price by talent or time taken, but by size," I'm thinking, should have his head examined. I spent something like 7 hours on it when it's only a 5x7" canvas!!!!

Anyway, I promised I'd post it so here it is!

Hope all is going well with you all.

Cheers!