This past week, as we quickly approach the 1/2 way point in 2017, I started feeling that I needed to really roll up my sleeves and getting focused on my art and what I want to accomplish as an artist. I'm determined that I will not work any more part-time accounting jobs. The last job I had was a complete disaster and I probably could benefit from a few therapy sessions. Brad says, "You're letting her live in your head rent free." It's been a whole year and I still can't bring myself to drive down parts of Russell Road. No...I'm determined to make this ART THING work for me and have it supplement our retirement income while doing something I love!
I have always been someone with a dozen projects going and struggling to completely finish any of them. Multitasking can be a very good skill to have in the business world but not it can be somewhat of a problem when it comes to producing art. Or at least that is my current belief.
Hanging on the wall above my drawing desk is a large dry erase board. I dug around and found some good dry erase markers and decided to write my goals so that I could have a visual each and every time I step into the studio.
*LEARN PHOTOSHOP
*CREATE COLLECTIONS OF ART AND A PORTFOLIO FOR THE PURPOSE OF HAVING MY ART LICENSED
*ORGANIZE MY POEMS, STORIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS INTO A BOOK FORMAT FOR FUTURE PUBLISHING
*BUILD UP MY ONLINE ETSY STORE WITH MERCHANDISE IN DEMAND THAT BRAD AND I CAN CREATE, SELL AND SHIP.
This past week I happened across a wonderful website that had what I feel is a good example of a licensed art portfolio to use and an example. I'm SO happy to find the art of Becky Schultea. A fellow sister in Christ and artist that seems to be doing a lot of things that I want to eventually accomplish and she is doing it right. I have already started jotting down some ideas for collection themes and makes the need of me learning Photoshop even more evident. I was really struck with her style of making her images appear to be floating above the background almost like a sticker. This is similar to my color pencil drawings when I apply a shadow line that results in giving the image a pop off the page or a more 3-D appearance.
I just might be a wee bit partial, but I really think my "Down Country Roads" art would look good on coffee cups, flags, pillows and stationary so I just have to convenience the corporate world of that fact.
So this summer I have a lot to get accomplished and I hope that I'm up to the challenge.
Mostly, I just plan to KEEP drawing and painting, like I have before but focus more on making collections with my sketching efforts. Learn from successful artists already in the field like Becky Schultea of Plantersville, Texas.
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