Awareness...

I had a great day today with artist girlfriends. It was composed of lunch and an organizational meeting for a competition I help out with every year. Then I came home to do my "homework". I am taking an online class from Alyson Stanfield. She is a woman/consultant who helps artist market themselves. I am hoping that this class will help me get off my duff and step it up. I have goals but I haven't written them down or said them out loud. I am not sure that they are even complete in my head but I have a general idea. But that is the problem. With only general ideas, how are you to achieve specific goals? I am hoping that this class will help me there. You know, force me to ask the tough questions of myself, make me take a look at my poor time management, get me really motivated to produce and sell. There are excuses galore that I could insert here but that is all they are. So we move on. Once again I think it comes down to awareness. [I learned this in practicing yoga.] Until you are aware of a problem you are unable to fix it. I am hoping for awareness...

Oh by the way, two postings in less than a week must be some kind of record for me! Woo Hoo!

New Facebook Page

I have added a business/artwork page to Facebook. To find it, you can search for "Michele DeSutter Art". Once you find my page please click on the "Like" button so you can become a fan and have yet one more method to follow my career and what I am up to artistically. Besides, who doesn't like having Fans! It makes me feel like a rock star!

The information that will be on the new Facebook page will be like a cross between my web page info and blog info. Here's the type of stuff you will find on the new FB page...photos of new artwork, quick/short postings of what I am working on currently, events I have coming up, & any other "arty" type stuff I can think of. It will probably be updated more frequently than this blog, I am sorry to say but I check my Facebook account several times a day and that just doesn't happen with the blog. Not that I am not trying.

Soooooo. What have I been up to lately? I have a new yoga series painting about half done. It is a mandala. If you are asking yourself what a mandala is, it is a geometric pattern, usually circular in form that aids in meditation. I just like that they look a lot like a kaleidoscope and that they are very graphic in nature. If I like the finished product and it is well received by you guys, I may do more. The sky is the limit with this sort of subject matter! Here is a picture of it as it is right now. I will add color and probably more detail.

Also, if I can get it in gear, I would like to have a 12"x12" painting done to donate to Spiva's auction. I haven't done this for a couple of years but I plan to this year if I can meet the deadline. I will keep you posted.