November 18, 2009:
My plan to work on one painting at a time was terribly flawed. The goal was to increase production (ultimately to paint faster), but restricting myself to one at a time puts me in a position where I'm actually painting slower. It should have been obvious; I must be able to pick up a second painting while the first is drying. Perhaps limiting myself to something like 3-4 at once is more realistic.
November 12, 2009:
If my self portraits start to look more "super" than usual, it's not because I've been working out... it's because I got lazy and painted the figure from this thing. ha!
This spider man doll has 67 points of articulation, which is pretty elaborate compared to the "artist's manikin" 
dolls which have something like 15 moveable joints. The doll is discontinued but I found one on ebay for twenty bucks, and then spray-painted his costume away.
I don't really have an excuse for making the little cardboard palette...
November 05, 2009:
I am experimenting with a new working discipline: One painting at a time.
Over the past year or more, I have become too ambitious when starting new paintings, sometimes working on as many as twenty paintings at once. The result was an inevitable loss of enthusiasm for some, while others were worked intermittently without much progress. Several were scrapped, and I feel obliged to complete a few of them before returning to the current work.
The studio motif, myself painting, is a genre I have found great interest in. If the painting I had been posting in progress here, were IV (with three paintings preceding it), I should note that I was recently working on VII (an example of the problem).
I: Self Portrait with White Turban
II: Lunacy
III: Unfinished
... (etc)
Since only I and II are finished, it seems fitting to finish III before IV, and so on.