Random Updates !

first just took delivery of my new Timberland Boots, they are sick !...and so on to the random updates and why i'm always forgetting to update things, it's the painting, when you get into a painting you get really into, nothing else matters, not eating, not sleeping and although i might have plenty on my mind and be thinking of this, that and the other and making great plans, the painting comes first, it needs 100% concentration and 100% commitment, it's the way it has to be, otherwise it just would'nt get done, a painting is created in stages, these stages are determined by the colours or the shades, it is impossible to paint a stage halfway through and then leave it, each stage has to be finished, no matter what, painting for 12 hours at a time is quite the norm for me, my record is 14 hours only stopping to take on fuel, it is the way it has to be, being self taught i have learned along the way, learned from my mistakes and applied what i have learned to the work i do these days, getting up at 6am to start painting for 12 hours sometimes really takes it out of you, but the end results are well worth the effort, i once dreamed of being an artist, getting on for around 20years ago now, but never in my wildest dreams did i think i would be producing the work i do now, it's incredible, i love it so much that i find it really difficult to close my eye's and sleep, the mind does not shutdown, not ever, and although i've trained my mind to behave like a computer the one thing that is missing is the shutdown option, one day i will shutdown completely and all that will be left of me is the great things that i have produced, that is the only thing you can take with you when you're day comes, that what you leave behind, this is why i am an artist and this is what drives me on and on and on...wow