It's usually around this time Shoppers that I have to get up from the easel for a good long walk. I usually sit/stand for about seven hours a day when I have a series to work on (with a short break for lunch, coffee refill, run to the store etc.) sometimes I'll go longer if things are going well, it's the eyes that get strained. Not my back, not my neck, no real head aches, but my eyes start to dry out and feel a bit like a rubber band about to snap (or any cartoon simile equivalent.).
I have five of the Libery Boot pieces on the go and am enjoying their development immensely. It's a stylistic choice to do them more as posters than paintings, requiring finer lines, more thin layers of colour than I am used to, and a straight graphic plan as opposed to the organic form that comes to me so quickly with painting.
My intention is to have five of them finished and posted for your gandiferous praise by Friday barring any physical interruption (working for someone else) or spiritual deflation (cheques not arriving when they should).
So we'll talk soon,
A.S Hahn
