When do you log on to the SOG forum? How often?
 

Thanks everyone for the warm welcomes.
I'd be interested in knowing how other forum members plan their Internet time. I don't watch TV in the studio and I don't have a computer there either. I tend to focus on one thing at a time. Do you check the forum once a day, every once in a while, evenings, mornings?

I can see that I will need to get a handle on this. Not enough hours in a day for everything!

Hi Tom and welcome!
I've been following your thread on the Gopnik article, that's a beautiful painting, and it's really neat to see your process :cool:

For me, internet time is unplanned. . . but whenever check my email will pop over and check the new posts link here to see if anything new and interesting has been posted. Only problem with doing it that way is that if you only check out one or two of the new posts. . . the others might have fallen off the new posts list by the next time you log in and it can be easy to miss something interesting. :bewildere

Again welcome! (and please let us know when your web site goes live. . .)

My Web Site
 

Thanks Terri,
I am "live" sort of. you can find it at www.thomasnash.com but it doesn't have enough content for Google to pick up.

I claimed THOMASNASH.com years ago because I knew I wasn't the only one out there. Then I never got around to doing much with it.

I have posted more here on the forum in one day than on the site in six years. There is now a picture of my portrait of Zell Miller and a large view of the wall in my studio covered with paintings when I had a studio show.

Sharp eyes may recall the same paintings in the American Artist article in Feb. 1992. In other words those are all at least thirteen years old. I promise to do better soon!

I do the same as Terri, whenever I check my e-mail, three or four times a day.

Tom,

I have my model sit for 20 minutes with a 10 minute break. During the 10 minute break I run to the computer because I get so tense, and I want to come back with a fresh view.

Norman Rockwell, used to clean his studio when he got tense, but as I am usually in avoidance mode vis-a-vis cleaning, the internet is a more fun alternative.

I can't wait for your "Art Critic" song! Too bad we're not architects of medieval cathedrals or we could put their faces on the gargoyles.

I'll be spending a week doing some Plein Air painting soon too. I really need to get out of the studio and it will be like a vacation for me.

The "Don't Step in the Gopnik" comment made me laugh out loud!

Oh, on your question of how I manage my Internet/SOG Forum time: I try to keep it to the hours before 7 am or after 7 pm on most days. Though here it is 4:45 and I'm at the keyboard. I need someone to say to me, "Bad artist! Back to the easel with you!"