It seems like no matter how much I try to experiment in subjects and styles on the canvas, my sketchbook always brings me back to the same place.

Keeping up with a full time mural painting schedule while trying to maintain an active art studio practice going is like living with two different dog breeds that are constantly trying to kill each other while trying to eat of off the same plate… I guess I’m the plate in this analogy.

It is very challenging for most artists to maintain a productive studio practice when they also have to keep a full time day job, or run a business that is not related to the art they make….

… is it possible to have a day job, family life, social life, etc. and still have enough time and brain juice left to go into a studio, or art segment of your home, and just get lost in the creative process?…