chronos and kairos

I need studio time desperately! Not just 10 minutes here, or a splendid 20 minutes there, I need uninterrupted hours. Right now I've settled my bum in the chair for a few while I wait to pull a quiche from the oven before heading out to clean the stalls and check on the new dairy goats; later it's a trip to a farm with big A and the kids....all things I'm happy to do. But a clock is ticking on some deadlines. There's something I've noticed about opportunity, it seems to build like a wave and when it arrives the power can only be put to use by a series of (sometimes difficult) choices. Why couldn't the art shows, the wholesale account, and the commissions have been spaced evenly over six months?

I generally employ an "irons in the fire" approach, but I have the feeling I'm going to need to make some cuts, some purposeful cuts, before the load is lighted by dropping a ball....AND remember that there's an abundance of time for the things that truly matter. Where did I read that idea put so succinctly?

Let me check...

Okay, found it.

"Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life."

— Brian Andreas

Thanks for sharing that one, Amy!

portrait finished - new project started

I just finished this piece

This is the third and final portrait in a series of three siblings.

It feels good to have been working on a portrait because my next project will include 6 of them. If you read the blog you know I think about food quite a bit; this project is about food. More precisely, our presumptions re: people and their relationship with food. I have quite a ways to go. I finished this one this morning

These 6 x 6 inch oil on canvas portraits are half of the project - I'll share the other half as it develops.

studio audience

My little studio looks out toward the back yard - I always have an audience.

Their level of interest can range from endearing to spooky.