My Own Artist In Residence

      My friend and mentor Linda Blondheim has a blog  where she writes about her Artists in Residence Project. She is lucky to have the freedom and the "where with all" to be able to do this project and I enjoy her posts on the places she has been and the paintings she has completed.
   I have so many distractions that I sometimes put these above my art business and painting. This is a discipline that I have decided to attack and embrace as one of my goals this year.

     My artist in residence will be in my own studio. I am declaring it to start Monday February 20, 2012 and end Friday February 24, 2012. I am going to treat this time as if I am in residence or on a week long workshop.
 My goals are:

1. I will  be in my studio or outside at a place in the Orlando area painting everyday 9AM-5PM.
2. I will NOT be using the computer or my smart phone to cruise the internet or post etc... until after 5PM.
3. I will not have the TV on from 9-5PM.
4. I will start a series of new paintings and finish them -goal 5 new paintings
5. I will post on my blog Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, in the evening- the updates to my endeavors

  Between now and  Monday AM I will be in the planing stages: selecting and getting photographs to work from, deciding on compositions, drawing,  Notan , selecting the color palette I will be using, doing a few color charts and preparing the canvases.

I am going to treat this time as if I paid over a thousand dollars for a workshop and therefore nothing else is more important! (barring real emergencies) :) 

Wish me luck! 

Terri