Saturday, September 27, 2008

Another Day in the Life of an Artist

Today is Saturday and I'm staying in to paint and to make another version of a video I want to make for YouTube of my paintings. I've tried several times on this set of paintings about the environment for this video, "The Future Is You." But the way I was presenting it just didn't seem "right" somehow, as if it needed to be something I wasn't seeing.

I had decided to just not make the video, but this morning I woke up with another idea for it, a simpler idea that might work. So I'm going to work on that today too. I just feel that putting a video on YouTube would make it possible for more people to see my art and to be "out there." To sell paintings there needs to be communication and to communicate there needs to be exposure, a conversation of sorts. I'll post it here when it's made or at least post a link to the one on YouTube.

I also finished the details for my 50 percent off sale for my paintings on my site, http://www.ellensgreenart.etsy.com. All my paintings will be on sale today until noon tomorrow. I feel good about putting them on sale for awhile just to add interest and focus to what I'm doing, which is to live the pleasure and delight and challenge of painting and to make money doing it so I can continue to learn and live well.

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