The tutorial videos are updated! It took a lot longer than I planned - changing the screenshots and adding some content. There's still a few changes I want to make but they're good enough to post. If you didn't already watch them on the main page, here they are:

Before I moved my webcam (see 6/29 post here) I had a digital clock in the lower left corner of view.  The purpose was to prove it was a 24 hour camera even when the lights were off at night.  It was mounted on the wall, out of my field of vision.  I've been hesitant to move the clock because under the new set-up, it WOULD be in my field of vision and (a) I don't like to know what time it is while I paint and (b) it's REALLY bright orange.

Today I moved the clock back in view.  My simple solution: unplug it when I paint.

Bad planning on my part.  Next year I'm making sure that my trip to Italy isn't the day after "opening weekend" in New York.

Venice:
Certainly plenty of great "wow factor" installations... (if you're curious,  I thought "crowsfeet" had a good sampling of pictures on Flickr).  But two artists in particular really grew on me (and continue to be on my mind).   I enjoyed Susan Hefuna's layered drawings on tracing paper more every single time I saw them (I'm nearly obsessed now).  And Alessandro Pessoli's small religious paintings on paper with subtly innovative framing also became a favorite only after I had to wait in that gallery for 10 minutes for a film in an adjacent room (and glad I did).

Dusseldorf:
I had a great chat with the Sies + Hoke Gallery about the potential purchase of a Claudia Weiser.  Great to talk to Alexander, Nuria, Lucas & Diana. Though there wasn't an immediate love connection with the available works, there are a few under consideration and I will certainly continue to pursue future drawings by Claudia.

I have a difficult (and exciting) schedule on Friday -  49 scheduled* galleries in Chelsea and 13 scheduled* galleries in the Lower East Side.  Over the years of gallery hopping I've determined that my "top speed" in Chelsea is about a 6 minute average at each gallery with a 30 second travel time average between each.  The Lower East Side is more like 4 minutes per gallery & 3 minutes travel between.  With the transportation from Chelsea to The L.E.S.  I'm looking at approximately 7 hours and 23 minutes if I don't take a break**.

Saturday I will see galleries that don't open until the 12th (i haven't even looked at the list yet) and return visits to anything I found interesting on Friday.

* I have a computer aided system that schedules me to see all shows at galleries that I have rated highly in the past.  To this I've added shows I've heard about that seem interesting.  This does not account for many galleries I walk by and enter on a whim.

**I have a bag of trail mix and a bottle of water, which I use sparingly to eliminate bathroom breaks.