{"id":167,"date":"2017-03-10T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-01-06T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:38:24","slug":"the-multiple-charms-of-working-in-batches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"The Multiple Charms of Working in Batches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style73\">Work In Batches:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was painting alongside a friend, and she asked what she should do while waiting for the paint to dry on her current piece. I suggested she start a second piece while waiting for the first piece to dry.<\/p>\n<p>This is a strategy I frequently use in the studio to get as much productivity as I can out of that precious time. I dont just start one piece, I start a group of pieces, usually 3 to 6, at once, all using the same process. While I am waiting for one piece to dry, I can work on the next one.<\/p>\n<p>If it is acrylic I am working with that day (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/onelifefineart.com\/sunflowerproject.html\" target=\"_blank\">sunflower seed paintings<\/a>), by the time I have brought the last one in the group through to the point where it is unworkable and needs to dry, the first one is ready to go again.<\/p>\n<p>If I am working with oil (such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/onelifefineart.com\/projects6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Western Series<\/a>), with its longer dry times, it is even more important to work in multiples. I hardly want to wait three days or better between sessions! With that longer dry time, though, I tend to have more time to find solutions to problems I have come up against in a given piece. I can be working on possible solutions to the previous piece subconciously while physically working on the current piece.<\/p>\n<p>If you are working this way on location, like my friend, don&#8217;t forget to bring a way to transport all those wet paintings back to the studio safely!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work In Batches: I was painting alongside a friend, and she asked what she should do while waiting for the paint to dry on her current piece. I suggested she start a second piece while waiting for the first piece to dry. This is a strategy I frequently use in the studio to get as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}