Taxes - ugh!

I find when I can't paint and am forced to do other stupid things like housework, or laundry or TAXES I am full of inspiration and chomping at the bit to get to the studio. Other times when I don't have anything but painting on the schedule I fart around doing this or that and waste half the day. Guess that just proves I'm human! Well yesterday was taxes all day long. We have three rental houses that all changed tenants last year. I keep track of them on Quickbooks, but hadn't done a damn thing on it since I did last years taxes. So lots of trying to figure out what deposits were for since my hubby doesn't like to write that down when he does one! Probably if I did this every month it wouldn't be an issue. sigh. This year for sure I'm going to keep up! It would take me like 30 minutes a month at most. So today I have to do the tax returns then I'll be free to get back to my crayon competition. I'm having such a lot of fun with this one. I'm doing a still life with army guys and a dinosaur. as the background I colored a scene the way I would have colored it when I was 5 or so. So there will be obvious color crayon marks with the foreground done more realistically. I am really leaning towards childhood things in my paintings lately, I think this is really opening up a whole lot of ideas for me. I went to the store and bought a bunch of toys - Mr. Potato Head, jacks, clay, army men, dinosaurs. There aren't too many of the classic old toys anymore. I'm sure there are copywrite issues involved with using recognizable toys in paintings. I'll have to read up on that. So - off to the taxes so maybe I'll have some of the day left for art! Back to work tomorrow. Here's one of my first army guy vs the dinosaur set ups. I like to photgraph them, makes it easier to translate into 2D, plus I have the real setup for color, etc. I'm going to do a different background picture, and I have work to do on the lighting. I'm debating on what to use as the floor surface as well. fun stuff! Well - it's not letting me download the photo, so I guess you'll have to wait to see that!