I think the paperwork is done… for the time being. By the end of next week, that should be done and I’ll be able to begin the filing process. Oh boy!
After all of the inventory counting, report generating and other stuff, I did something fun on Thursday. I opened up a batch of photos in Photoshop and began working on compositions for potential paintings for this year. My goal is to create six large, museum quality paintings by the end of the year. Large is 16×20 or larger.
The compositions I worked on are probably going to end up as a colored pencil painting and may be 18×24. A daunting task! The lighting is great, the horses are gorgeous and the landscape is from the Flint Hills, so I’m excited.
A good part of Friday’s studio day was spent in clean up. I try to do that twice a year, whether the studio needs it or not (grins). The focus of the work this time around was the drafting table on which I paint and gesso and do other flat work. It was a mess, even with all the brushes, palettes and other stuff off of it. But it cleaned up very nicely with the appropriate amount of elbow grease and Pine-Sol.
Icing on the cake… I finally got to paint at the end of the day on Friday. Woo-who! The portrait I’d hoped to finish by the end of 2011 has wet paint on it again and it’s very close to completion. That’s the good news.
The other news is that the parts that still need to be painted are the hard parts! Harness. Bike. Driver. Long lines. Yikes! Non-organic shapes are a challenge.
