Yay, my internet speed is back to normal, it has been slow for over a week which meant it was difficult to upload photos and download blogs. I'm so far behind in reading blogs and getting my creative biz off the ground.
Last weekend....
Monday Morning Art Group - I was busy taking my son to his driving test - so I did some painting in the afternoon:
I also hung Ribbon Town on my lounge room wall - matches the curtains - very funny!!!!
On Tuesday I took my eldest son to the doctor's - he has tonsillitus - poor manchild - he feels like death warmed up. My guess is that it's actually glandular fever and he's going to feel yuck for quite a while.
On Wednesday, I went to the hairdressers - good news - they would like to hang 2 of my paintings for sale in the front of their salon - which will mean some great exposure. I need to get organised with this great opportunity. Want to see me??
Thursday - yesterday - hmm what did I do??? Ironing, shopping, cleaning - popped into my 'studio' and I use that term very loosely and touched up my painting. If I'm going to paint for a few hours I bring things out into the kitchen as you can see from the Monday's painting.
I took the above pic just now, sorry the lighting is soooo bad but it's a little dark outside with the rain clouds.
Hope everyone had a great week and will think about joining us on Sunday for {Sunday Snippets} - send me a link to your Sunday Snippets post so I can go read it. Thanks, have a great weekend wherever you are in the world.
"In Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott writes about a Buddhist belief - the idea that when several things start going wrong all at once it is to protect something bigger and greater that is trying to get itself born - and that whatever it is that is trying to come into our world needs for us to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible." Thanks Kelly Rae Roberts.
Yesterday I had a lightbulb moment whilst reading this quote. I have photographed all my paintings using my small Sony camera all in low resolution 72dpi. If I had sold all my paintings that weekend I would not have the opportunity now to re-photograph them with our Nikon SLR in high resolution 300dpi - suitable for printing and magazines/publishing.
Here are my 3 top tips for today that I want you to take away with you...
1. Photograph your finished artwork/creation in low resolution for the internet - blogs/sites etc and then re-photograph in high resolution for publishing/printing. (Your computer program may be able to do this from high to low resolution).
2. Tag your final photograph so it's easy to find such as 72art2011 and 300art2011.
3. Bad things happen but then better things can happen - all part of a bigger picture which we do not know all the details of.
Big love and bear hugs,
Shells.
On the last weekend in July I had 11 paintings for sale at an art show/sale. 20,000 people were meant to come to a food festival in our community and then hopefully come to the art show and buy some art. The weather was rainy and stormy and very few people turned up and no-one bought anything. I was very disappointed.