These are images of how I work on a painting... I am a somewhat messy painter, that is my space is messy. I take a few hours once in a while and thoroughly clean my small studio, but most of the time I prefer to spend all of my available time painting, researching, doodling for paintings, and preparing my surfaces for paintings. I also spend quite a bit of time preparing my prints and cards which I sell online, and in my summer gallery in Temagami, Ontario (Northland Traders).
I have come to realize over the last several years that if you want to improve yourself and your work you have to put your all into it, you cannot simply dabble into something and hope that it will turn out. You get out of it what you put into it.
A few things have fallen on the wayside but at some point you have to face the realities of life and decide what it is that you want out of it. I am certainly not superwoman (much to my dismay) and must accept that I can only do so much. I have decided that it is painting.
I a semi retired meaning that I work 8 months out of the year, and then off for four months. My husband and I operate a seasonal business, which allows us a very interesting lifestyle. I try to paint most of the year, but my most productive time is January to April, then I paint semi-regularly from May to October, and then almost none November and December.
