This is my Landscape A Week painting for last week. Yet to be titled, this painting was finished on Wednesday or Thursday of last week…

Until I sat down to paint yesterday.

I knew I should have cut it off the back board it’s mounted to along with two other 4×6 pieces of canvas, but I didn’t. Consequently, I couldn’t resist putting just a little bit more paint on this one during the day.

Sigh.

It is so very difficult to finish a painting and leave it alone, sometimes.

So I have to move the official finish date on this one to Monday, August 4 and, therefore, do not technically have a finished painting for last week.

The good news is that I also worked on the other small format painting I started last week and started a new one for this week. So the objective is to finish one of those this week and maintain my average of one a week.

Weekly SMA Landscape #5 2008
6 x 4
Original Oil on unstretched Artfix Belgian linen canvas
$100 unframed plus shipping

I am also preparing to finish October Skies with some corrections on the horse. That will hopefully begin today (Tuesday). I won’t have much time later in the week due to scheduling conflicts Thursday and Friday evenings and an all day class at the gallery that will eat up my morning on Saturday. With God directing my brush strokes, I hope to have the portrait completed by next Monday but I can see, the way the schedule is shaping up, that it might actually take until the end of next week.

Writing continues apace, as well, though I didn’t do anything beyond blog and journal updates until early evening yesterday in order to finish a book by Kansas author, Deborah Raney, and to begin reading a book on starting a business by co-authors Cameron and Donna Partow titled Work With The One You Love. Both are great reads and well worth the ‘day off’ from other work.

©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
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