Reply To: I paint every mini like it's my last!

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@sundancer – I must have thrown my wallet at the screen at least fifteen times (I was going to say twenty, but I’m not a maniac) but @scribbs *still* hasn’t got a Patreon set up!

In all seriousness, though, I do wonder if the “temporary painting on the table” idea has more going for it than those of us lucky enough to have dedicated painting areas realise. When I paint, I get to a point where I think I’ve done enough, I get up and walk away. Nothing to tidy up, nothing to put away. Just a messy desk piled up with crap.

Maybe if I *did* have to tidy up, I’d a) have a tidier desk to work from, which always makes you more productive! and b) like @scribbs I’d be working to a “deadline” (even an artificial one) – i.e. got to get all these done before it’s time to start packing away (so someone else can use the table, for example).

When we first set up BuildBrighton as a community “nerd group” we hired a room, one night a week, for a show-and-tell session and general “hackathon” where people brought stuff to work on. But the key element was, we had to tidy up and leave at the end of the night. Years later, while we have our own “hackspace”/workshop, many people do hanker after the “good old days” when things actually got done and people’s projects progressed week-on-week, rather than hung around on a shelf gathering dust.

Rather than see it as a downside, I’m starting to think having a temporary work station is actually good for productivity (even if it’s a pain in the arse to constantly get everything out and put it all away again)…..