Painting and work

A week of painting is tonic for my forming soul, but the only way I've been able to manage the time for that so far is take vacation for one week painting workshops, once at the S.F. Art Institute the summer before Elena was born, and now in the week just past with Eva Bovenzi at U.C. Berkeley Extension. If I were to work as a painter of paintings full-time, I imagine doing it the way I gather Germans like Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch do, as a very clearly delineated "work time" rather than as an unstructured process that would certainly (were I to take it up tomorrow) leave me napping and reading eight hours for every one of actual painting.