Season of Change

I have several portrait orders lined up right now, which is sooo great. I had a bit of a dry spell last year after I stopped really promoting myself. I got a bit burnt out to be honest and wanted to have longer in between portraits and I got it. I went from having done 30+ portraits in a year to, oh..10 or less? But I also had plenty of time to paint my own paintings and experiment with my style a little. Now I have a lot of paintings, and a several prints, and a bunch of ready-to-ship pillow pets sitting around. Oh ya, and I'm moving. Where to...I don't know. This is not an unhappy move, but it's come at a slightly bad time. And since I HATE moving stuff. especially stuff that I realize (when I'm packing it) I haven't used for years, I'm going to be having my first ever garage sale. Soon. I have stuff listed on Craigslist and will surely end up donating lots of stuff to the Luther Service Center. But on top of all that I would like to just sell a lot of my inventory of pillow pets and prints. So. I'm having a huge sale in my Etsy shop right now (Coupon code HAPPYCUSTOMER gets you 50% off.) I have deactivated several listings, things like paintings I'm not willing to part with for less than the original price, and custom portraits. But will probably be adding more prints as I figure out my inventory.

Now please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I try and pick where to live and for how long. One option is a trailer (that I like. with a tornado shelter) with 2.5 acres (Having Stormy outside my front door?! Yes please!) but he wants a longer lease than I want to sign. And the other options...well I don't really like them....

Hoke Process

Wordless Wednesday: Stormy

So Far Monday

I am a little behind posting to the blog because I'm getting ready for the Downtown Edmond Arts Festival. Here's a tiny piece for the fest.

Thought it was finished here, ^ 

But after taking a picture, and looking at it for a minute, I thought it needed a tiny bit more work:

Finished This

Not Saturday Yet

This one is 2'x3'. I forgot how much I love painting on a larger canvas. 

So Far Satunday

I didn't quite get around to posting these on Saturday...I'm actually working on several paintings at once right now, this is just one of them. I am going to be at the Edmond Art Festival May3-5. And I will hopefully have a lot more finished paintings by then. It's definitely crunch time. But luckily I have April 16th and 26th off work because both those days I will be doing painting demos again for Art Moves. (The first one will be at the City Rescue Mission, and the second will be on a stage at the OKC Festival of the Arts.) Since those are in the middle of the day, I have to ask off a whole day from my regular job, which means all day painting! Anyhoo:

This was a kitten born on the farm where Stormy lives. He is now a fat and happy pet named Spartacus. He is my cat, Roman's brother. Spartacus' owner and I didn't realize until they were a couple months old that we had given them names with a similar theme.