Time for a New Year and New Beginnings

Well, tonight we bring in the New Year and some new ideas. I have always found it hard to write in Blogs....shocker! In all honesty, I do attempt to give some insight into my life as an artist in today's world. I have tried the Etsy world of selling art, which is alright but not for me. I have tried the Internet world, which I find more exciting, and social media does help when it comes to get your art into the public eye.

With this all being said, this year has been an exiting one for myself. Lots of inquiries, making commission works, developing a new exhibition theme, experimenting on other "ideas", and asking about future endeavors. The most exciting and fulfilling adventure was moving back home, re-establishing my roots, becoming a member of not one but two art boards, which continually impress me with their leaps and bounds in programs, ideas, events, and so many other steps to be seen in the public eye.

I also have to thank my partner in crime who has supported my decision to go back to school for a career which will support my art "habit" or rather hobby, infatuation, and not to mention the one thing which continues to drive my creative insight of ideas, influences, and desires. Through all the ups and downs in the last 5 years of knowing each other, 4 of which I was adventuring in Alberta and Saskatchewan, we have supported one another through it all. I could not have a better partner than this one! Oh, and with this partner comes my family and theirs.

With all this adventure and events happening in this artist's life, I have finally found the time to get to sit down and write something to at least tell everyone who reads these blogs, what I have been up to these past few months. Research have been slow going with all this excitement but I would not change the world for it. This research will hopefully lead me into another exhibition in the coming months of working away on projects, of course paintings, maybe some drawings. This part I am still undecided on when it comes to the whole production of the exhibition picture.

I feel paintings and drawings would be to similar to my first solo exhibition Crude. This is not the desired outcome I wish to portray in this particular instance. In all honesty, I might produce paintings and see what the outcome will be after all is done. Will that lead into drawings or perhaps photographs of what the exhibition will be.....aka reference photos I have taken along the way? I do not know but it is so exciting to see the whole idea and dream come into one huge story of colour, images, proportions, and so much more.

With all this begin said, off to do more research as this is what I live for!

Cheers, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Years!