I'm curious...I work full time during the week and try to paint in the evenings and the weekends.  Even this isn't enough time for me to work on my art.  Are most of you full time artists bringing in revenue that allows and justifies the time spent blogging?  I spend my lunch hour at work checking the artists forum and before I know it, the hour is up.  It seems to me that blogging would eat into a lot of an artist's time.  I would be curious to hear how you are balancing your time in the studio vs. the computer.

Mike, thank you for taking the time to type a lengthy and insightful response. It sounds like you and your wife have developed a schedule that maximizes your time well. I see that you don't have a lot of time either, so do you have a handful of sites that you regularly visit? Knowing that there are so many, maybe I should think about only focusing on a few which wouldn't be so time consuming. My goal right now is to keep plugging on my art...I have so many styles that I do and would really like to narrow them down to be more cohesive. I'm working on a commission right now with another in the near future (waiting on photos), and I have at least four other projects.

You know, I just had a thought...maybe I'm fearful of using blogging as a reason to not tackle the hurdles in my art.  I can detour to reading anything art related so as to not deal with my fear of something that I'm working on that is hard. Make sense?  Blogging could turn into another way for me to procrastinate.  I'm really trying hard to be diligent and persistant, getting over the fear of the challenges brought on with each new piece. Huummm...it's amazing what you discover when you take the time to think about things.

Thanks again, Mike.