i could never fit... into your apartment

today i left work at 11... i haven't had much time to myself these past weeks and it's been eating at me that my art has been pushed to the bottom of my list. the above photo hangs in my new studio... it's a bit of joke to myself. it was snapped last halloween... but it reminds me how ridiculous it is to pity yourself. lately i've been feeling like... poor me... no time to paint... the truth is... with all things... my choice to make time for my work is my own. things have been really exciting at work lately and it's been hard to detach from that long enough to remember why i love to paint. 

my new studio space is tucked away behind the stairs in a basement. the water heater is the only one that ventures in here besides me... we like it here though... it's cool and quiet. before writing this i brought a few things in from my car and remembered just how warm and sunny it is outside... down here no one would guess there's an outside at all. i like it that way.

i have been working on a series of studies for a new series called "love is a drug" and these are the tiny dancers that are helping me formulate the entire plan for that... 

also there were two portraits i've been wanting to work on for some months now... these are watercolor and pencil studies for those too...

and some random-ness from the rest of the "love is a drug" series