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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I'll put this here, as it's not a heavily visited topic category and won't derail ongoing conversations. I was combing through various social media sites today, trying to find a way of putting off something I knew I needed to do, and found an item on Claude Monet.  It said that a featured painting was one of 36 Monet painted, 23 of which immediately sold, during a 2 month holiday. Two months - about 8 weeks; 56 days - I've been lucky lately if I've managed as many as three paintings in that time.   I don't even try to paint full-time - there isn't the demand, strange though it must seem, to justify it: though if you'd like to create a trend here (for me, not you!) do please plough ahead. Possibly I could physically produce that many paintings, if I worked assiduously every day: but even though I live in quite a scenic part of the world, I'd run out of inspiration and subject matter long before I reached anything like 36 paintings.  Could YOU do it?  Say yes, and I'll invite you to prove it, so be careful.... 

Denise Cat

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I should imagine, I've painted as many in as many days Robert. I live in a city but I never run out of inspiration or subject matter. It's my eagerness to learn, that's why I paint so much, I can paint all day and just push on with something because I want to reach a learning step or technique, I've set myself. I exhaust myself sometimes but I just love trying to create something. Yes, a lot of it might be rubbish but it's a learning and growing experience.

Alan Bickley

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Not an unrealistic figure if you have good subject matter to work from and no daily mundane distractions to take care of… I note that he was on holiday so he perhaps had inspiration from his new setting.
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Helen Martell

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I painted about 38 paintings in the whole of last year. This year, I’m on my 16th so far… have 6 on the go at the moment (pet portraits mostly), and I still have ten ‘new’ things to do for a group show in October. My other life (gardening) has gone crazy lately, so finding the time (and energy) is a bit of a challenge! I might have to take a week or two off. I did manage to paint 5 in a week once (they weren’t my finest works I have to say!!)
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Andrew Roles

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I'm a total amateur so my work rate is whatever I can fit in around my part time job and family commitments. A local retired commercial artist I knew used to do an annual show of his private work from his house to supplement his pension. He reckoned on producing a new piece every couple of weeks giving him 26+ pieces to show and he used to sell most of them.  He eventually gave this up as he got older and didn't want to be tied to his easel every week of the year.  I can't imaging attempting 36 finished pieces in 56 days... I wonder how old Monet was when he did this?

Sylvia Evans

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I dunno never counted...
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I guess it depends what you are painting, the medium, and the style. With my abstract line drawings I can do at least one a day and can't charge much but they do sell. Acrylics and other larger works are another matter entirely. All in all if you include my cartoons I guess I produce about two a week. 

Sylvia Evans

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Not seen your cartoons in an age Michael.....please could you start posting them one more. 
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Gillian Cooke

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Recently I have been managing  Two or three paintings a week on average.  I try and sketch something each day if not painting something. Hoping to sell some of them during the summer at local craft fairs which are popular with the tourists.

Bari Marsh

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I'm happy to do one a day finished pen and ink or watercolour sketches and pen and wash how many do you want.....I have just finished a project for a Scottish school to fill a sketch book on the theme you and your environment,  I filled 66 pages with pen & ink and pen and wash sketches in two weeks...very enjoyable 

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Linda Wilson

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As I’m practicing watercolour and drawing mostly at the moment, it’s 2 or 3 a week, but an acrylic on canvas takes about 3 days. When I was doing some voluntary work for the local museum, I helped catalogue one of Sir Joshua Reynolds’Italian sketch books.  He was in Rome for a year on the grand tour, but he only did 52 sketches during that time, and they were very small.  I was not impressed as he obviously did them very quickly, even the sketches of sculptures.
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Michael Edwards

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Sylvia - you might remember Athelstan and Barrington - the two gnomes. I'll post a couple recently done for a local magazine. First one today when I've finished typing this.
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