Right Here! Artist's Stream Of Consciousness!

  I've been pretty productive this week. I finished three, maybe four, paintings. ( Sometimes I'm not sure when a painting is done. It seems to be one of those only-happens-to-an-artist things.) I culled some books out of my library to sell back to the bookstore. I still have quite an impressive library, if I do say so myself. If I don't I'm afraid it might go unsaid. It cleared up some clutter in my studio as well. I'm just not sure I'm doing the most important things when I get things done. I've tried making lists, but I always seem to forget more things than I write down. I'm positive that more studio work space and more free time would solve that problem. I just don't have that luxury right now. I do have the luxury of a huge musical library. I also have the luxury of electricity and indoor plumbing. ( Don't think that's a luxury? Think what DaVinci could have done if he had them. Of course maybe he would have been so distracted by them he wouldn't have accomplished anything.) Of all the times in the history of man to be an artist, this has got to be the best. I can paint a painting, give brush by brush updates to the entire world as I create it, and post a finished picture and sell it before the paint is completely dry. And for just a few bucks I can have it delivered to their doorstep. I try to step back occasionally and take in all the really cool things we have access to. It certainly improves my outlook.

"What's Become?"