Painting has always been a challenge for me, though I find painting on the computer easier than working with an airbrush (which gave me bronchitis one summer, nothing like coughing up PURPLE phlegm), acrylics and especially oils. Part of that has been in being able to accurately capture color, a bigger part has simply been the fact that I seldom have a good workspace where I can paint without interruption. That my paintings tend towards the salacious probably doesn't help.

The current piece I'm working on, Mermaid Shallows, is more an experiment to get back into the rhythm than anything. I've probably invested thirty hours in it thus far, may have another ten as I finish it. I may make prints of it for science fiction art shows if I feel that ambitious, but all through my life there's been a war inside of me between the artist, the writer and the programmer. Each of these use a different facet of my brain, and they tend to be blockers - I find that it is hard for me to write or program effectively when I am working on artwork, when I'm in the groove for writing, I find programming tedious and my artwork comes out looking like crap, and when I'm in the zone programming, I can forget about getting writing or artwork done. I'm not sure if others run into this phenomenon, but it can be a real pain when I'm up against a deadline for programming work and my inner artist cries out to do something.

Won't promise anything new for a bit, though I have some ideas. I'm getting a couple of novelas (the first, anyway, about mermaids, natch, as well as programmers and databases - actually the whole of the FaeBook series will feature the latter two, with occasional cameos from the mermaids) prepped for eBook publication, should have them out shortly. More details to come.  My novel, Lady Jane Doe, is in first revision now. I'll put up more about that shortly.