Taking the Weekend

I have been a bit off-track painting-wise since about June of last year.  I changed positions at the hospital to a much more lifestyle friendly clinic position that affords me all day-shifts, only requires weekday working, and gets me home by 6pm most days.  Unfortunately, an unintended consequence of this switch and more normal lifestyle is that I no longer have long stretches of time when I am home and all the rest of the world is at work.  It also has given me all sorts of other opportunities that I have been eagerly seizing, which are also sucking time away from painting.  I have employed other creative outlets such as photography and storybook writing, but mostly I just miss painting.  So I am taking the weekend. 

I am mostly done with letters L & K, still am avoiding F like the plague, and am slightly lamenting the fact that there are 26, not 12 letters in the alphabet.  This project was supposed to be done a year ago.  However, I have completed several other notable pieces in my time away from alphabet-ing, and am quite pleased with their results.  But the lack of letters has prevented me from completing the Animal Sounds book which is supposed to feature the letters as well as photos of animals I have taken at the zoo.  Ugh.  I am optimistic for this weekend, and am currently working on 3 pieces concurrently, although one is intended only for my own wall-space.  Wish me luck and stay tuned to see the new stuff!

Oh, and just for fun, the blizzard that kicked off the painting flurry (because I was trapped inside with no work to do!):

 

And this was only part one.  Part two made it so snowy that I couldn't even go out and photograph it.