Artist Hideout

*The following is a series of thoughts basically to get a few things out so I can resume as normal after my short break.

Artists by nature seem to stand in contention with their age. Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime and now his work sells for millions. Is there an unwritten rule that says that any art worth having is a dead artists work?

I recently made a trip down to our local Art association. They have a small gallery in town and I wanted to at least check it out. I left as a member. As a member you can submit work to the gallery for free and sell through them. I thought this was a great place to display locally. Better than the coffee shops I have been displaying in.

I am still waiting to get my camera. I have decided on the Nikon D80 with sigma lenses. Too many expenses (getting taxes done) happened this month. So decent original images here will probably have to wait just a little longer. This frustrates me, but I will make do.

With the end of the month here at b5media, as a channel editor this month there was just a lot to do. So I took a little two day break from writing, played some games on the 360 and just relaxed. It was worth being able to come back completely renovated and restored to a point of being able to collect my thoughts again.

Aaron over at Technosailor answered one of my questions on some wordpress functionality.

For those of you who don’t know, I also run a few other sites and have built some sites for some people. I am trying to get out of some of these so I can focus in on blogging. It hasn’t been working. Most of my clients are friends and so it’s a little difficult. One at a time I guess.

I am hungry to sell something lately. But I think I am still searching for my niche style. I play with ink wash. I meander with watercolors. I doodle with drawing. I fiddle with logo design. I desire to sculpt. I enjoy photography. I hope to paint. I thrive to doodle with pen or pencil. But I am not satisfied. I think it’s my curse to love art and to try out every way of creating beauty that is possible.

Does any of this make sense? This is definitely going in the category “Brain Shavings”

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