You know that feeling when you are trying to turn an opera house into a tropical Island without making any structural modifications to the original building .....
- So if this is you procrastinating, what does your typical day look like? How long does it take to finish a piece? Do you work on multiple or one at a time? *-*
fine questions ...... I always have several pieces in progress at any one time I like to have several styles in progress simultaneously..... the swirly works in the background of this picture are a fast attempt to assemble works for shipping to galleries .the 'swirly' paintings are watercolours ( have come to be known as my ' signature style ') ... on a heavy gsm home made paper ..... they take around 60 - 100 hours of successive layering .( not including paper production or framing time ) ..... the thing that I am looking at on the floor is a pile of comic style illustrations ... lining up for a second edition of a book that will coincide with a gallery launch later this year of which there are over 100 re drafts the cartoon illustrations take around 1-2 hours each ................ there are bold coloured acrylics and oils as well which take anything from 1 day to 6 months .... depending on the intended price range subject matter and technical depth of the piece ..... and the architecture .....the various sheets on the worksurfaces and work easels are architectural illustrations for two different project submissions ...... .. well the current 2 projects are around a week old ...... although obviously from a consultation point of view they tend to take months to a year or so from design to build .........did that answer everything ? x ...... hence the reason I seldom stop to document myself doing all that needs doing x
ha ha ... of course then there is also traditionalist carving techniques employed in the sculptural works .... in wood and stone ..... but I only tend to find time for these ... in between the rest x
... and a typical day ...... gosh that really depends on which country I am in ..... but t generalise ..... up at around 6.30 ..... coffee and a tweet or two ..... then a little physical endurance ... generally sculpture ... although at the moment that comprises a gallery remodel and a large wooden boat project ...... ideally back at the easel for around 2-3 ..... with a movie or music ..... switching between projects every 3 hrs or so .... of course always subject to change depending on travel times and classes booked / gallery appearances ....
no rest for the wicked they say ..... I must have been a bit of a git in a previous life ; )
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