So people often laud me for my patience. It's undue really. I'm very impatient. I refuse to order from catalogs. If I want something I want it now damnit. I don't like being at the mercy of the postal system to get my material kicks satiated. I don't work in oils cause I can't bare the dry time, thing is the way i'm working with acrylics takes forever to dry too and you really can't rush it, other then having a fan blowing on it 24/7. If you add another layer onto a thick passage of paint before it has clarified (acrylics appear milky till the water entrapped in the polymer is released) then you run the risk of the film never clarifying. Some acrylic painters even have special desicant chambers built to fascilitate the clarifying of the polymer, me I'm dependent upon moving air and low humidity. I nearly ruined a painting for class I was trying to speed along cause it was due the next day by propping a heat lamp next to it. Like any plastic, acrylics melt. It was so a near disaster.

So, the easiest way around this drying lag time is to work on many pieces simultaniously. I need to see how much canvas I have left and stretch some more soon. all that is work though, and I'm tired.

love to you.