fun in a way cause there were 3 other 83 gallery people and a new clay artist which had some really nice pieces at the usual 300 dollars not too bad as far is what is expected...anyone who thinks that is really high try to make some its not brain surgery but its harder than you think. Anyway we had Daniel and the rest there talking about different casual stuff. Then some people came in only about 4 but then of course I was in the must sell something mood. Its a huge deal to sell some artwork. I have been kind of swirling there in a mild panic to make a sell cause its all cost as of yet . The two galleries are 75 dollars as of yet not that its not so much but put that in with the cost of materials and its like man without sales... its like when is this going to get over. I start to find a slight amount of doubt in a way. If a person doesnt buy art it is still cost ...and if you have that for a while who cares if you have had 19 shows... you start thinking man maybe I suck. I usually come off as a confidient person and I am but its like man ...maybe I dont have it. Ok ..making sales shouldn't be the way to make yourself believe in yourself probably a bad way to reassure yourself because what if there aren't any. I used to just make art and I still do but to make art... not for the possibility of showing and then hoping for a sale. I guess just moving to a showing continuing process with some sales changes it some what.... anyway I did make a sale. Its a mixed result. As I said I was like fuck can I make a sale.. it was a must and since I have a ton of abstract work around 300 so I think to myself I have so many but then I dont want to price it down even with that many cause I want to save some for the stock that I dont sell hoping for a Picasso style career in the way that I have a stock that is owned by my family not the rest.. Then my family can show it and charge a entry fees. Assuming I am dead that is... ok
but back to this week. I went to 83 gallery this week. They were having a meeting on monday and of course which is great for him but damn man I want some too....ok he is bad ass Joss Parker ...has a dude come in and check his art out and then pop he sells a 125 dollar piece....so that is bad ass.. and then after the Wed. night show at CS gallery W.E. Arnold was talking about going over to 83 around 9 or so and I was like yeah that sounded good because I knew Joss would be there so we all went over there and found out that he had another sale to the same dude for the same Garbage pail kids..but a different one for another 125 dollars...man I want that kind of set up...
The rest of the week was too get through the work crap. I did get an ok amount on my money on my check but not that much.... lets leave the details off of a blog on that...if you dont know what I mean then just let that one goe...anyway I was trying to get the damn credit paid up first two cards were close to being late mailed one payment and one was going to be late but learned how to pay on the phone so that was cool but still have a backing up pile on the school loans..man I hate them 8 k to go ...and no that is not fun.
Anyway that is crap...skip to this ....
friday cashed my check ok put it all in and put the rest I forwarded off my cards to pay the damn school loans...up...so that is finally done...
I then got home hung out with Zachariah my son and found out how to paint with him around and ...well I chipped on some lime stone piece until 6 and then painted until 9 or so then while Zach was hanging out with me the while time he was playing outside while I was outside also chipping on the limestone. I then went down stairs and painted while Zach was painting too.... I have been working on trying to make stencils work. I know an artist a pop artist who is amazing actually who talked about making stencils out of paper.... I am finding that is actually harder than he said mainly because he is bad ass...so its easy if your a master... anyway... I was working on some oil paintings horror ,character driven ...which is what I was like thinking that maybe not sure about how to navigate or put it on hold with abstract cause I just think there isnt much interest but ok now I am sure there is interest ok that i what I am thinking this weekend.... cause I did have a sale.. anyway granny was sick last week so that put the baby sitting on hold and that made me turn to drawing more over the course of this last week and I was drawing a ton on horror drawings... and drawing on card stock...so now I am painting ..last night I got up at 12 and painted on a ton of small paintings untill 5 am and then went to bed and got up in 3 hours to help my wife with the getting rid of our damn broken down van which is bad ass....then later in a few went back down to painting and got to laying out another painting in oil for Divine Chiropractic ....so that is pretty much done now and I still have the two I layed out and started in oil a dragon painting which is almost done too.... have to get on the 313 studio and the show up in cleveland and the show 18 deadline for the philli show .... ok I am behind with going to get some pop and get back to the painting....
talk to later..
Arlo
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