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I'm picking up my large January painting from the Spring Salon show this week and working on a couple 30X40 paintings and a 48X60. Those 10 paintings from January ended up taking somewhere around 2 months and after getting back up beyond a 40 hour painting week I quit using the timer. It was really great for keeping up the momentum and seeing how much of my work day was actually spent at the easel painting. I'm looking forward to a plein air painting trip in September and should have another dozen paintings ready for shows in September and October.

February.

Looks like most of February is going toward "finishing" the largest of the January paintings. I've got a new 48X60 planned and my little painting timer is working great since I tend to totally loose track of how many hours have been spent painting in the studio.

On the Clock.

Starting off I've jumped into a few paintings just to get things rolling. I picked up a timer last week from the local government surplus store. Looks like it was for some kind of lab experiments. I'll use it to track how much time I actually spend with my brush in the paint, making paintings. I'm thinking that I'll be able to re-structure my work day to end up with the right amount of time spent creating work vs. generating ideas, making canvases, mediums etc. all those distractions.
In the past I've completed maybe one or two paintings per month. This month I'll go for a minimum of 10 paintings.
So far these two weeks at the easel results have been 10 and 25 hours. In the next weeks I should have it into the upper 30's to 40's.

First Post.

This is a week end blog to track whatever I feel like posting about my work, other artists work or art in general. Visitors, feel free to add any comments, critiques, questions. My paintings can be seen at jonjohnsonfineart.com and at A Gallery in Salt Lake City.