All the world's a stage...

by Billy Ray Shakespeare

This is the second in a series where I come up with Uncomplicated Ideas™ that would really have helped me out if I thought of them at the beginning of the project.  Today's idea--just make a stage!

This happens to me frequently; I start a project and things go smoothly.  I can make a widget--a leaf or a column or a fish.  But it doesn't occur to me until too late that when I duplicate that nice widget, especially if I duplicate it hundreds of times, my system might complain.  So I've learned a few lessons that, if I listen to myself, will make future projects finish much more smoothly. 

 So, a lot of life happening and a few technical difficulties slowed down my progress.  But, I've got a little more free time now.  It's back to work!

 This is a project I started almost a year ago, but which soon stalled.  I'm back to actively working on recreating one of the paintings in the series, ​Piazzo San Marco​, by the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal.

In anticipation of Easter, I thought a little frivolity was in order.  

This is a permanent post--I will update it occasionally.  Some aspects of being an artist, and improving as an artist are difficult: it requires skill, creativity, passion and vision.  Progress generally involve hard work and there are seldom short-cuts.  But other aspects are primarily a matter of organization and discipline.  If you reduce your 'wasted' time, you'll have more time to devote to the time-intensive activities.  The list below is where I usually find myself wasting time, causing a 2-hour project to turn into a 2-day project.