New Year, New Art!

Well....I have been a very bad blogger! It has been awhile but I have not forgotten about keeping up, just haven't had the chance.

New Painting!
I have begun a new painting that I am totally excited about and can't wait to finish it. It has become one of those that just comes out so easily and almost effortlessly. I know when I am on to something when that happens! I hope to finish it by the end of next week so I can get it photographed, listed on etsy, up in a store that I show my work in, and entered into a few jurried shows.

I love painting and I have been away from it for so long, following my other creative endevours, that I let it go by the wayside and almost forgot about just how much I love it. Although it can drive me quite crazy at times...

The painting itself is made up of similar leaf forms from my drawing " Study of movement and line" and has a baground of hexagons stacked like a honey comb. I have been having a constant dialog with my cousin Bianca about the pro's and con's of being an artist making a living from art work and my creativity and the giult I feel about no longer being a good worker bee amongst the workforce. I have been so sick that it's just not an option for me to hold a regular job anymore but the illness that is keeping me out of work is keeping me home where my studio is.

So, that said, I intend to finish this painting and work on more that follow this dialog that Bianca and I have been having. I intend the series to be a documentation of the struggle I have been going through and will reflect the way I grow and change and make new life plans within that struggle.

Me, Me, Me, It's all about me. Yep. That's what it all comes down to with my art. I get to be as self centered as I want to be and show it to everyone else for critique. I think I must be crazy!

Another day of fun and frustration

Another day another dollar. Nope not another dollar but I am becomming tough! Like steel! Art steel, if only I was a welder.... Anyway, my sales are still not moving but I am working myself silly! I made some prints today of the piece I have been cutting, I will photo them tomorrow and post. I also made a second edition of an old lino block, it didn't come out well but I am going to try again tomorrow.

Big news.. After I get my work packaged tomorrow I am going to visit some local stores. I live in a semi wealthy area and am hopping that there will be some good buyers around here, We shall see! Wish me luck!

Off to watercolor, I have some onions in my head that are begging to be put on paper and I'm thinking of turtles...hmm.

Still Poor Still Happy

Yeah right! I am doing everything I can to make sales online. I'm going nuts! Any suggestions? I joined twtter today and flickr, have pics posted on both. I need an agent to do all of thehard work I just want to make stuff. Iquit! Nobody tell Mike....

Right at this moment I am working on a linocut that is very arts and crafts movement. I guess things would go faster with it if I could get off of the computer. Mike is working on the house and getting suckered into bringing all of the lazy cats thier kitty treats. Oh the days of our lives!!!! I had some thoughts last night (WATCH OUT, RUN!!!!) about some animal prints but I'm not making much more than goofy scketches in my scketch book that I am not happy with. I think I am going to take an art vacation this week for 4 hours a day and just make stuff. I have some pieces of wood in the back yard that I am thinking of painting and printng on, they might look pretty neat. Thank god I have Mike for his tools!!! he can cut anything at any time of the day or night. Our basement is a hardware store! So I have all these ideas and in case you haven't sensed it some serious frustration. I am turning this thing off now and making some stuff. I neeeeeeed to create.!!!!