Its been a few weeks now of me focusing on the freelancing. Glad to get caught up but now I'm itching to get back to the painting. I'll write more here in a bit. Hope to get something I can sell soon.

I don't know why I feel a little down today. I think I wonder sometimes if I'm doing the right thing or not. I have to work hard with the freelancing and put this art on hold for a week or two. I have to make something soon to sell, because I can't spend more time like this unless there is a turn around.
We will see.

  Quick Blog. I'm feeling excited still. About the art. Incidentally, out in our garden we have a dirt patch that I've enclosed with a small fence and re-growing grass on that spot. I'm so inspired because the area now has tender blades and its working, its growing. Its funny because I can do all that I can, to make the conditions for it just right but then after that God has to do his part. I feel like that with this art.
  Yesterday was a great day. My sample program ended. It was great. As soon as I have the cash I'm buying it. I've prepared 31 paintings. I'm beating myself up a bit. I should have focused all on the Park. I understand why I jumped all over the city but I better launch with the Park.
Also, another exciting thing was figuring out the real-final size in my files. I had to mesh together 12 or so paintings to know for sure the exact size.
  I realized this when I learned my grid was not perfect. Its funny because I thought I was going to be fixed to what I had and I thought for a short time I made a huge mistake, but then I understood different, that I haven't even made one painting yet, I only have the prep work mostly done for 31 paintings (up to 180). I said to myself I only have to figure out the new positioning now and apply it to what I have ready.  I'm glad I figured this out before painting. It would have been a disaster if I didn't get the tolerance right and then try to fix it after art is sold.
  So my grid actually shifted but its more accurate to the 8 by 10 ratio size. Not by much, but now its very central. I was only off by a few millimeters. I also added a one pixel tolerance for the blade between each section. Now that I know my grid positioning I have to work downward to the lower city to figure out where the real grid it for lower part (seeing that I did so much prep work there).  I can't make any art till that's straightened out. It means I have to at least do upper and map out my way towards the lower.
  When I look back on this I think its going to be crazy that I attempted this and tried to make it accurate while being unfinished. Its crazy that I'll be selling them and sending them out and then have to make paintings afterwards still make sense. If I had to do it again I think I would have just did the Park and then the city after but I wanted to get to the business center.
  I also bought more supplies for the art. Wood and trims for the frames. It can't happen fast enough. The wife wonders how I'm spending my days. If she only knew.
  I'm excited about my future. I only have to sell 9 or 10 of these for me to know I'm onto something. Everything. mapping the whole city and preparing the under paintings. make a great weekly schedule for me to stick to to produce consistently. Then I'm really going to go to town on this.