This is a really big year for me. I have made a conscious decision to treat my art as a business rather than a hobby. The first step was this wonderful website that Bruce Shortz designed for me. His reactions to my art completely surprised me and filled me with confidence…(of course it’s to his interests that I pursue this line of thinking.) His design work and wonderful job of printing my giclees has brought compliments from everyone.
At this time, I’m preparing for my first 3-day art festival to be held at the end of Sept. I’m trying to paint almost every day and am committed to producing another icon or two and not just retablos. Everything is coming along pretty well, even though every month or so we’ve had to take off for scheduled vacations and family visits which of course mean almost a week of no procuctivity each occurence. Somehow I’m dealing with it, though and have decided to take everything as it comes and I’ll have what I have when it’s time for the show.
I’m changing my style a little too…hadn’t really expected that, but it seems to make me look forward to each new project and how to make it different from anything other similar artists are doing. I’m very interested in refining my icon painting techniques, so in the future I hope I can offer more Byzantine style images.
Missy
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