LOL the painter sounds out of breath maybe they should be out walking although ten hours may be a bit too much.
"The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted." Anthony Liccione
https://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/anthony-liccione-biography