how much of your time is art making?

[mopinko]

what percentage of your week is art making?
i am a full time mom, but now that my kids are older, i have more time to make art. i have a studio, and i try to get there are least once a week. i don't usually actually accomplish that, tho. twice a month is more like it. but it is a great inspiration to me that i will be wasting so much money if i don't get there. i do clay and some painting there.

i do consider my buttons to be part of my art, tho, and i spend a lot time on that. i consider my time at du to be part of that process. but apart from that, i spend about 20-30 hours a week on the design, production, and promotion of the buttons. it's not much money, but it sure is a lot of artistic satisfaction. i had hopes of returning to my own self-indulgent navel gazing during the kerry administration, but i guess i am making buttons for 4 moron years. so i have been working on making more of it, getting more retailers, and attending more events.
i miss my navel.

so how about you? do you work every day? squeeze it in on the weekend? or like i was when the kids were little- lock yourself in a room for a day or 2, every few months, when you are ready to explode?

[djeseru]

1. I finally got serious just this year...

...and put together at least two pieces in less than two months time, and these were ideas that had been rattling around in my head for over a year. Between the breakdown and motherhood the past 8 years have been a real blank space. And it hurt to go through my sketch/idea book at times during my hiatus, knowing I couldn't work!

Since the move last fall, I've gotten out all my papers, inks, junk, etc and now have two others in the "put-together" stage - I'm playing catch-up...

Ideally? I could work for hours, days at a time but it usually works out to a couple of hours a day, every few days or so.

[Heidi]

2. Every day.

When I'm working hard, trying to finish a commission or just getting started on one, I do it eight hours a day, like the job that it is. I find that if I don't approach my art in this way, I become lazy and lose track of where I was going with a cycle of work or ideas.

[jdots]

3. when i am painting i do naps for a few hours

time flys away and the hard part is resting your body.20 hours a stretch is normal and working on 3 or 4 things at once works for me.The medium is different so the process keeps moving.Drawing is the hard part ,breaks are needed because my eyes hurt and arm gets numb.