if you are sick of my twitter updates you can now subscribe to my blog without them!
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I will be updating my subscriptions page to add these links in, but I thought it would be nice to give the option to you now 
Artist Tracy Helgeson has put together a blog showcasing artists who are selling their work online. Things like this are so helpful in this market, where luxuries such as art are hit hardest. check it out here : http://thefineartdepartment.blogspot.com/
what am I doing with the market downturn? I’m focussing on making my more affordable pieces, the smaller works and the watercolors, I’m building on my techniques and abilities and skillset so that I am ready for the market when it changes. Because I will be moving house soon I have also started a sale at boundless gallery where you can pick up my works for 15% off. this is a precursor to a price raise that will have to happen at the start of next year so if you have been eyeing off a piece, now is the time!
I’ve been working at getting all of my online listings up to date including updating all my latest work on Discovered Artists. It’s not the most thrilling activity on the planet but it is all for a good cause. plus my sexy new iMac and Leopard makes it much easier. the speed, the easy photo access all speeds up a dull routine. hell, everything is more fun with a hot new computer! so drop by DA and check it out.
Next I will be working on my listings on BoundlessGallery and editing the prints that are available on Redbubble. oh yes, the life of an artist is glamorous indeed.
Darren Rowse at Problogger has created a new group writing project- Killer Titles and it has inspired me to start a blog project of my own that I have been planning on for some time. a series of tutorials on Daz 3d designed for artists. I know a few of you out there already use it really well (better than me in all likelihood!) but I don’t know many artists that use it the way I do. this may be a stupid idea, I don’t know but I’d like to give it a shot – even if it’s only for reference for myself!
With all of the hooraw around my exhibition I’ve been a bit remiss in reporting other things that have been happening. In particular my latest Barebrush success where my work Freedom was chosen to not only kick off the month in the coveted 1st date but also nominated for a curators choice award. I am particularly ecstatic as the curator for this month’s exhibition is Ann Aptaker the exhibitions curator of the Morris Museum. She chose my work for it’s “sweeping use of space” which is high praise to me!
Votes are now open for the Curators Choice award. Please vote for Freedom!
I have had it with phplist! the amount of issues I’ve had with that stupid program are just not worth mentioning. I have officially stopped being a cheapskate now and have paid for a proper mailing list provider at Your Mailing List Provider. so far they seem to have what I want, their tests have so far come up well, they had an extensive free trial) and I wont have to spend hours mucking with it every time I want it to do something.
as far as I can see, the problem is that my server runs php under apache. it’s not it’s own entity but almost a php simulator- diet php, and phplist seems to have massive problems with that. I could spend more and more hours working on it and get more and more frustrated, but as I see it $40 isn’t that much an outlay for a year of stress free newsletters. plus, paying for it may actually encourage me to send them more often.
I will try to make this changeover as smooth as possible, there will be some to-ing and fro-ing but hopefully you subscribers wont actually see anything but newsletters that work the way they’re supposed to.
I think my phplist went a little haywire this weekend. I was creating my newsletter mailings as I usually do and it crashed and I think in the effort to try and fix it I may have sent out multiples of the same newsletter to people. if I did I am truly sorry. I have almost had it with phplist. it seems to be one issue after another after another and I’m just not sure I can keep it up – it just looks so unprofessional. still, I guess you get what you pay for…
Like so many others I have recently become addicted to twitter. before, it was just another site that notifications of blog posts went out to. Then I guess I became a victim of my all time favorite ploys “because I can” and “because it might be useful some day.” I connected it to Facebook, then my mobile, then twhirl, then I may as well add Pownce and Jaiku seeing as twhirl posts to them as well. I blame Ecto which started it all with it’s handy little blog notification tool.
Why do I love twitter?
I work from home, alone (while Liam is at work). I have the cats to keep me company but to be honest – they sleep a lot and get grumpy when I talk to them and wake them up. I don’t miss my old day job, but I do miss the camaraderie, people to share thoughts with, no matter how little or banal. my blog is one way I reach out to people, I love the chance to converse about my favorite topics. But what do you do with all those small thoughts? the what ifs, the hey this site is cool, the OMG my website just died, the little rants and raves that make up our day? and more importantly, where can you hear others sharing theirs? twitter is my background noise, my water cooler, my way of realizing that there are other people out there. I tend to get very insular and agoraphobic if I don’t maintain human contact and twitter is the ideal way for me to do that without giving up my privacy to paint or overly distracting me from work.
Having been a year since I installed and added custom CSS to my blog layout, I thought it was finally time to fix all those niggly little errors that have been residing in the back of my mind. the slightly out menu bar, the random red underlines on links.. little, non-important issues that drove me insane! well, they are finally fixed! what a weight off my brain. I sat and looked at the menu bar, now fully back in alignment, for a good five minutes just feeling happy that it was finally done!
now I am working on my phplist subscriptions, updating my database and fixing the glaring errors before sending out another newsletter. then i will update my webpage. the plan is, that I wont have any of these little issues bugging me when I can get back into the studio. I can just paint and be free.
One day a year, the world stops to remember that joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created our first piece of art – that’s what Drawing Day is all about. The goal for Drawing Day is simple – to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art. 2008 is the first year of this initiative. Our goal is definitely a long-shot, but we’re aiming for 1 million drawings worldwide.[From Drawing Day 2008 - about the big day]
I will be participating in Drawing Day this year, I think it’s a fantastic idea and a great incentive to get back to my roots and create for the pure joy of creating. Drawing is so much part of who we are as people and is natural and purely creative even if you don’t think you can draw, give it a shot! you might surprise yourself.
you can participate in Drawing Day by going to the above site and registering your interest and participating in some of the many groups that are out there. It’s as simple as picking up your pencil and paper! I will be uploading my work to the Flickr Group and the Facebook group as well as Redbubble. I may even create a sale on BoundlessGallery or Yessy – you never know!
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