Art Is Hard!

It's been a busy week of ceiling painting, faux finishing and commuting and alas, not much time to do anything really creative. But I did manage to squeeze this artwork in this morning before going to work. You know, art really can be hard when you have no ideas running through your head and the weather is just blah and you are simply exhausted! I did have a wonderful weekend away with the 'girls' though last weekend and as soon as I get a chance to sort through my photos I will fill you in with some of the frolicking we got up to!



Enjoy the rest of your week!

Nothing Ventured...

Welcome to Distractions - Come join me on my journey of discoveries and distractions that may not all be wonderful but are never dull!
I decided to eventually start my blog after months of soul searching, reviewing millions of other blogs, loving every one of them, realizing that blogging is such a great tool to share our ups and downs, pitfalls and triumphs, and a wonderful way of meeting kindred spirits.
So, where to begin? I have been dabbling with photo shop for about 8 months now and discovered that it was easier than I first thought. I became a bit addicted and spent hours creating images of all the ideas I had stored away in my brain for years! I was amazed at the response I received after joining Flickr, Red Bubble, and Imagekind, (all of which are sites for artists to showcase their work on line) that my confidence in my art grew. I then saw an add last week on Craig's List asking for artists to display their work in a new coffee shop that had just opened in my area. "Aha!" I thought "free advertising" and off I went to the printers to get my work printed out. I have spent the last week (in between working) cutting and gluing, framing and matting and on Thursday I hung all my work on the coffee shop walls. Today was my 'showing' and how excited I was at the anticipation of actually selling something. And wouldn't ya know it - nothing! Not even one inquiry, zilch, nada.
There's always tomorrow I guess... or maybe I'll just stick to the day job!