Paint'n Belmont
I just got back and rested after finishing up on another painting of Gibson's Market here in Charlottesville. It's my third canvas this summer alone. This one is a rather larger canvas around three foot square ruffly. It took eight hours of painting time, and hours of preparation time and lest we forget clean up time. But as I tell many people who ask "how long did it take you to paint it?" it's not the time that I like to keep track of, it's more like loosing oneself into the process or painting and thus loosing track of time itself when one is truly immersed into the painting of the canvas. If you not then I'd say your doing something wrong and missing the point of the self-expression of the making of art. So right now, I'm able to relax a little and my painting is baking in the trunk of my little car out in the hundred or greater degree heat in order to dry the paint so it doesn't run when I have it upright. I followed my paintin