As you can see, I’ve got lots going on at the moment :) I’ve moved, but am still sorting all my stuff out. At the moment my art desk isn’t setup and I’ve only managed to draw for a handful of hours. I’m getting withdraw symptoms! This coming week should see everything start to get sorted, and the plan is to put together a nice new daily colour studying routine.

I intend to start my daily colour segment drawings again, I put them on hold while I concentrated on moving, along with 2 hours a day studying from the Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee Hammond book. I stopped studying from this book while I focused on segment drawings, but I feel I need to push myself more and so will be studying and producing segment drawings every week day.

Over the past month I also took the difficult decision to withdraw from the art gallery I was part of. It’s a beautiful little gallery, but I was increasingly finding it too much of a distraction. I felt it happening and started questioning if I wanted to stay in the gallery. A few days later Dave Crocker, the artist who offered me the opportunity to join the gallery, quit. This was a big blow, but I saw it as a sign … his reasons for leaving were very similar to mine.

He wanted to get back to painting. I admired him for having the courage to leave the gallery. It was always Dave’s gallery to me, so I can’t even imagine how difficult leaving must have been for him. Knowing how much we all inspired and respected him. Dave quitting triggered a few other artists to leave the gallery, this meant there was going to be more of a time and financial commitment needed by all the remaining artists. As I was already thinking about leaving, this increase in commitment was enough to tip me over the edge.

I enjoyed my time in the gallery, but if I’m being honest, it wasn’t for me, not at this point in my life at least. I’m so glad I tried it out. I met so many nice people, but for now, I want to get back to basics. I feel like I’ve lost focus a lot since joining the Art Fair back in April. I’m getting back to having no commitments and just focusing on studying, sketching and Sophie.

Sean on the SeanWes.com podcast very often says that you have to

say no to good things now, so you can say yes to great things in the future.

Here’s to a great future! It’s certainly been a pretty mad few weeks, but normal service should resume shortly :)