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Well...hello anyone who still follows me. It's been quite the journey these last three years and since I had a habit of giving updates in my journals I figured on the 3 year anniversary of my last journal it was time to give an update. I know...I missed the actual anniversary by about a week. So for starters, let me just say that ever since the Eclipse version of deviantArt was flushed upon us my engagement with this site has dwindled. I find its user experience to be counterintuitive, buggy and slow. I've made my opinion on several official journals and such and that is all I will say about Eclipse. I will persevere. In the last 3 or so years a lot has happened. My work has been a bit of a roller coaster with a year of non-stop production to an epic, grinding halt of an artist block. I'm still trudging through the block but this year has been a bit of a dumpster fire and it's not even pandemic related. Work. I'm thankful I have a job and that I can provide for my family. However
about time I had a new journal
So...on this 3 year anniversary of my last journal post I thought I'd update this thing with all the goings on since the last time I wrote. It's funny I use to write in my journal quite frequently but that time is not longer. Mostly due to the fact that I have too many distractions these day that writing in this journal isn't a priority. Anyway, enough bemoaning the lack of journals for 3 years.
What's been happening? Lots actually.
Family
As the kids are getting older life evolves in fantastic ways. The kids are getting bigger and growing so fast you wonder where the time goes. It's wondrous to see their interest in things and the art I
Many thanks!!
Wow!
I was a bit surprised yesterday with getting a Daily Deviation for Smoldering:
I usually try to thank everyone for the :+fav:'s and I'm going to attempt it eventually, but for now I want to say a general: Thank you so much for all the favs and +watches!
Would also like to thank OfOneSoul (https://www.deviantart.com/ofonesoul) for suggesting it and jempavia (https://www.deviantart.com/jempavia) for featuring my painting.
...of originals and shows
So I've been a very busy boy of late in a way. In August, I had a small show up at a local library that is really friendly to local artists. I had my work up there for the whole month and had 6 original paintings sold during the run and 1 that was sold a week afterwards as a result! Pretty amazed by that and the library was so thrilled with the success that I'm booked for the next 2 years there, August 2016 and 2017. Happy times!
So riding high on that success I decided to enter another art show, this time being held at my Alma mater. It's a group show for the art alumni, not a solo show. I put two paintings up that didn't sell, figuring why
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Artist's block comes every now and then. My experience is that no point to dig into it too hard, just put down the brush, go out, read some books and inspiration will fly back into you before you know it.