Working in my studio after many days of absence.  It always feels good to be here.  I’m working on some house portraits.  One for a friend who wants a drawing of her Tucson house for her Christmas card.  One for an old friend who wants a painting of his childhood home.  Trying to finish it for his birthday in October.  And finishing up one of a new house my girlfriend bought a year ago.  None are for hire.  Well, one was, but I told my friend I would do it for free…need the practice and need the portfolio piece.  I’m working from photographs and work in watercolor.  I feel like breaking out though of this “safe” style and do something more like Edward Hopper

Painting by Edward Hopper

or Bay Area artist Robert Bechtle Robert Bechtle – Works | Louis. K. Meisel Gallery.

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But let’s just get to it.  I need to get out of my head and into my studio and keep working.