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Old Dec 08, 2012, 03:47 AM
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Maybe you can find an internet site to sell through.....one that already exists.....that may take a % of the sale price....but that's still better than not selling anything.

Of course, you could always get your own web site set up for selling your artrox......that would be a fun internet site to put together.

Your work is beautiful.

I don't know how you find the time to do all your art work. I make gifts for my friends (beading) & also at Christmas, I paint ornaments (acrylic)....but I seem to do it on demand, & don't have the time between to really build up any inventory.

Ugh, Yesterday (Thursday morning), I was searching madly for the picture on my phone of my friend's freisian horse that I took last year....it was an awesome head picture that I wanted to use as the model for painting on the ornament we were exchanging at the party scheduled for noon. I had never painted a freisian horse head before. I had painted 2 horse heads last year on ornaments for a couple of friends. I had all year to get ornaments painted & find pretty horse heads to use as examples.....but have been too busy with life & house to get the painting done that I wanted to do.

Also had a lady at church want me to print out poems & paint borders around the poems.......I did about 7 of those for her.....turned out nice.....would be a something nice to paint & sell at craft shows.....but have a hard time even setting down & doing that beyond what someone actually wants.

Our Christmas tree at church didn't have a tree top for on it.....something I thought last year.....I found the perfect wooden angel to paint......I had it all sanded & ready to paint early this year....but didn't finish the last touched until the afternoon before our hanging of the greens & the dedication of the angel in memory of a wonderful lady at church that had died of cancer in January of this year.

Just like with my beading of necklaces & earings & bracelets....I seem to not do anything until I am inspired by the person I want to make something for.....but I have so much materials sitting around my house....half of my computer room is a table specially set up for doing my crafts.....you would think I would get around to doing the things & have things ready for gifts rather than doing everything at the last minute.

Thought how wonderful your table full of artrox looks & what fun you had to have had painting them to be able to let all that inspiration out from inside........

Guess it's sort of like I was with my flute....I would practice before concerts & work really hard at getting the music known & playing it perfect.....but between concerts, the flute would sit around waiting for the next concert or performance I had scheduled.

It would be nice to just sit down & let all that creativity out when it's not under pressure.....interesting....never really looked at it this way before & realized just how I was doing the creative things in my life.

Would be nice if I had less things that I have to do around the farm & more time to just do the things I really want to do.....but wonder even if I had the time if I would really set down I paint or do beading.......& I don't even have ADD.

My huge painting project this year has been stripping the paint off the wood around the front door & repainting that.....still have one more coat of paint to get done this weekend so it will be dry by next Wednesday morning when the guy is coming to install my storm door that I bought from Lowe's last APRIL .......& that painting ISN"T CREATIVE in the least....only satisfaction with that is getting a project FINISHED......don't even have anything really pretty as a result of all that work.

I hope you can find a place where you can sell your artrox through.....so that you can actually make some money off of your awesome talent.....like I said however, it's great that you have been able to let your creativeness out & have so many artrox that you have painted & you don't just paint them when you need a gift for a friend or someone wants you to paint one for them.........going with the inspiration is so much of being artistic....getting it out of the head & onto the medium.........everything seems to get stuck in my head.

Glad you had fun with the other artists as the art show.....that is most of the fun of it anyway.
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