"Conveyor belt art"

Enthusiasm, that's what that is! I've done the same - I've had watercolours on the go, on a drawing board on the table, and an oil or acylic on the easel; or it might be an acrylic on watercolour paper, and one on canvas on the easel: so I could use the same paint, but I think I'll need a bigger palette if I'm going to do the latter again. At the moment, though - my enthusiasm is at rock bottom: partly this is down to my eye problem (appointment next week, but how far away the op is I don't know) and we've all been knocked for six down here by the sudden illness of my landlady - strictly speaking, landlord's partner - who suffered a stroke nearly three weeks ago; she's made remarkable progress towards recovery, but she's 86, and it was a bad one - I never really knew what the word "gutted" meant before, but I do now; we don't even feel like eating, and that includes the dog.... I don't wish to pour water over anyone's parade - it's just that when people say they're blocked, or don't feel like painting, there might be all sorts of things going on in their lives: and I shall be a bit less glib in future with positive advice, I think .... But anyway: I like your plan of campaign, and while others might disagree, I think it's quite a sound way of working - it stops you getting too wrapped up in a painting, and too tight and fidgetty: not everyone could do it, but I always found it helped me to really look at what I was doing, because you have to re-focus, concentrate harder, adjust to differences of scale; you can even see colour better and work out how one relates to another because the relationships will be so different in each painting. And of course, in th'old days the old masters would almost certainly have several canvases on the go at the same time, partly because paint dries at different rates and they still had to churn the work out, with apprentices working on the standard sections of one while the Boss flitted between them adding the fiddly bits.... so all you need really is the apprentices.... http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

First of all, as you know we know your landlady Robert, wish her well from Hampshireman and Florette please> Hope your eye prob is finally sorted but when. I have been away from the easel for over two weeks now and while I need and will get back on it soon, I have had other thing such as plannig my one day show in 10 days time as well as being in Sussex in the caravan, sketches will start to appear on here. I don't have several works on the go, but the staywet palette allows me to use whatever colours on it to work on various pieces, some of wich are put by from time ago or just unfinished.

Sorry to hear you are having a difficult time Robert, I hope things improve soon.

There are times that once I have finished a painting I have a few days away. Recharge. There are times I have more than one piece on the go, something I'd rather not do but is necessary due to deadlines. And my lovely girlfriend introduced me to a wet palette..... this I love!

It's good to have several on go at once. Particularly if it is a series where you can use the same kind of colours. I try to avoid paintings in different media at the same time and I could easily end up with the wrong paint o wrong picture. Similarly I don't have a cup or coffee near my painting work as I could easily since my brush in the cup - Definitely not advisable!