“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.”  - Denis Waitley

This quote really represents me. I have to get out of the mind set that I am not capable of living up to my dreams. 

Half way done with my little painting. 

Strike A Pose Saturday

Just me ..striking a pose

WIP

Working on this small 4x6 painting in acrylic. Think I'm coming down with a cold or something today. Time to relax for a while.

Artist Personal Photos

I've been reading tons of articles online about art business and marketing your art. Yeah, I should really get some actual books on the subject. Until then, I'll read articles online. One of those articles was about how art blogs are pretty pointless. They are filled with your work and some description of the end result. The article went on to say how art blogs are not personal so most people lose interest because they feel no connection to the artist. That was when it hit me that it was all true. All the blogs I like were very personal. My favorite blogs make me feel like I'm friends or want to be friends with the owner. Same for artists that I like. One artist I adore and she is always posting pictures of herself, her studio, random pretty photos on tumblr, and her art supplies. Every photo I see from her give me the feeling like I'm there and that I know her. Even on her artist website she has all her selfies and random photos she takes. Add another goal to my list. * Be more a more personable artist.

Here's a start.

Follow me on my artist tumblr. http://www.priscillageorge.tumblr.com

More Starting Less Finishing

I've been practically sitting here all day. It's been over a year that i have been wanting this artist/craft space or myself. I've had the desk or a long time and even the shelves were bought but just not installed for maybe over half a month. Finally I had enough and needed my space where all my art things were in reach.

All those note pads are my calculations on this art fair I am looking into doing in November. It would be my first art fair! Since I'm starting from scratch the price is a bit shocking. I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to do the fair because prints and having them matted is more costly than I thought. 

Nope I haven't finished the acrylic painting from earlier of the fox girl. Instead I started a small watercolor just to try to get more art faster. 

Here is my sketch or the watercolor above. Not really alike but hoping it comes out good. 

Photo References

For years I carried my camera around with me all the time. Taking photos of my surroundings was second nature. Last several years it hasn't been that way and I haven't taken many photos. Instead of finding my camera to be awesome it was cumbersome and bulky. Now that I have started to paint again I realized I had no photo references of my own. Painting Plein Air is something I would love to do. I'm a slow painter and I don't have enough free time to travel to the heavily wooded areas to paint. 

 Here are some of my photos from todays family hike that give inspiration for a series of paintings. Who doesn't love nature and trees paintings?

Working On It

It seems the past few days when I am looking forward to my daughters nap time it's been very delayed. She's really testing my husband and I lately with going down for nap and bedtime. Even though nap started very late today I still pulled out the paints. No more excuses right! I knew once I started to paint it would just flow. If it didn't flow I would just throw it out the window.

 

 It has been forever since I have painted with acrylics. Acrylics dry so fast, plus the sett up and clean up took a bit of time. Once I started I was in my comfort zone. The past year or so I have focused on getting better at watercolors. Well watercolors stress me out. Acrylics make me very zen. 

5 hours later I had ever bit of white covered. My main goal for the day was to just get an underpainting. I could stop at an underpainting. Still have lots more detail to add in. The face is at the stage that I like it but want to fix some and make it look more realist yet I'm scared to mess it up. The lips need major work. The neck shadows I'm not happy with either but I'll need to dwell on them more. The background is just a base so it'll be worked on too. Not too sure what to do with the section in front of her...detailed leaves, or not detailed leaves.

Starting My Art Career

 

 An artist has to start somewhere. It's been a very slow start with lots of researching and inspiration. I'm an obsessive researcher. I've spent days looking up artist mothers, selling your art, and starting an art business. While I've had moments of feeling overwhelmed this time I am really motivated to just do it. Every year I go down the road of wanting to make my talent and my dream of being an artist a reality. Now I have gotten to the point where it has hit me that if I never start and then keep on painting I'll never be an artist. Instead of making excuses for why I haven't made any painting I'll just be doing them. 

I've got a sketch down of a fox girl to paint in acrylic. Hoping there will be a Wildlife Girls series if this Fox Girl comes out nicely. My acrylic painting abilities are very very rusty. 

It's important that I have a start to this journey.Today I even made the base for my artist website. I can't make cards without a website to direct everyone to! Even blasted my blog on my personal facebook page. There is still lots to set up and perfect. Facebook page, twitter, tumblr, whatever other social media, etc. First the most import part needs to happen..and that is the paintings.

Solitary Artist

Today was the day I have been looking forward to since February 2013. It was the first day of my daughters pre school, well more like pre pre school. Two hours every Friday all to myself. All these ideas of what I could do for 2 hours that I wish I had more time for. Working out, maybe getting a stand up paddle board and doing that, shopping, or painting. Today I was really excited to sketch! A coffee shop seemed like a good starting point today since I don't know the surrounding area to well to know of a good local to paint.

This morning I was late yet I still managed to pack my sketchbook, my tablet (the coffee shops aren't that cute looking), my pencils, and some pens. Ready I was so ready. Until I ordered my coffee, got really nervous and walked outside thinking  I would just sketch outside. Couldn't get WIFI to work so I went back inside. Instead of sketching at all I stayed on the tablet browsing  facebook and my emails. It actually made me so nervous and petrified to pull out my sketchbook and draw. Having people talk to me about my sketches was not what I wanted. What if someone peered at my sketch and thought it sucked? What if I started to doodle and since being so nervous I would  have the worst ugliest sketches of my life? What is someone came over and gave me crap for sketching from photos and not from real life? What if I started sketching people in the coffee shop? THAT IS HORRIFYINGLY SCARY!!! After thinking of all the what ifs I just couldn't do it.

Even when I was in art classes in high school I hated to sit next to any one. I didn't like people looking at me draw. If anyone would step behind me or glance over at my paper I would stop and cover up right away. All my life I was used to drawing alone in my room. If I didn't like a sketch I would keep it in my sketchbook without having to show anyone. While I like to show off my finished works if they are something I like, I hate being so exposed during the process. Art to me is a solitary activity. Yet I want to get out there and do it! I wish I could get the balls to just do it!