Just keep painting...just keep painting

When I first started selling my artwork, I set a goal to get into two shows a year at some point down the line. I thought how lovely it would be to do one show in the fall and one in the spring and spend the months in between in my happy place, honing my skills, all while being the most excellent wife and mother ever.
Well, two years into this new career path and I have managed to get into a store and into three shows this very fall. I have applied for two more in the spring. I am swimming in paint. Timing is everything they say. I have timed my art world debut to coincide with moving into a new home and with the onset of the toddler years. Not stressful at all. Good times. Good times.

Naptime has turned into painting express. Nightime has turned into panic-stricken list making. In-between-time has turned into just-stay-hydrated mode...did I mention that it is hotter than hades out there? Obviously, I am still working on being the most excellent wife and mother ever section of my previously mentioned goals. I'm sure at some point I'll either find the balance or fall off the deep end!

So you know about the Bella Rustica sale September16-17 and the Fine Art in Brentwood Sale December 2-4 already, but did you know I also got into the Belmont Community of Art Show and Sale at Christ the King September 29-October 2?
http://ctkart.org/Belmont_Community_Art_Show/Welcome.html (this is last year's poster)

I am thrilled beyond belief that I got into this show as well. To be included in the roster of artists for both the Belmont and Brentwood sales is amazing, humbling...and a bit intimidating to be sure!!!

On a more somber note, I cannot be true to myself or my work without mentioning the great loss of my sweet and talented friend, Christy, who lost her battle with ALS on July 15. To say that it stopped me in my tracks would be an understatement. I owe much of my aesthetic to Christy. She was a talented designer whose furniture and paint colors and space planning blessed my life on a professional level and whose laughter, stories, and tender spirit blessed my life on a personal level. If you have bought a little e studio piece in the last two years, you have bought a little piece of Christy. She gave me all the leftover paint from her condo renovation and I have used her brown in almost every piece since then. It is the perfect brown, of course. Last year I auctioned off a painting to raise money to send Christy and her husband, Doug on a dream trip to Italy. Through the generosity of so many, they got to go on that cruise and create wonderful memories. I thought I'd share the painting one more time.
Heaven is a much prettier and a much louder place now that she is there...

Hope to see you at a show! My first ones...holy shmoly!!!

Here is a little preview of what I've been working on!