Goal for the New Year 2010

Well it has been a wonderful year creatively. 2009 has almost come to an end and I did not reach my goal for the year but I did produce some great paintings and I had some fun. This coming year I decided I would write about my journey into trying to make it in the as a real artist. I have a few objectives for the year. Some of them are a little ambitious, I admit and they will be a struggle to complete, but, I need to have something to strive for.

First let me cover the things I have learned and completed in the last year.
First here is what I have completed in the last year.
I completed around 15 paintings. I took 2 courses on Art Marketing. I entered 1 Art Festival. I entered 2 Art Shows. I was chosen to be one of the select artist to enter a huge 4 X 8 foot painting in the Eureka Springs Artery (check it out at www.thearterysite.org) I signed up for around 10 Art web sites. I was able to start the creation of my personal web site. I created a Artist Fan page on Facebook called PS-OV-ART Patty Sue O'Hair - Vicknair Artist ( Look me up lets be friends) I had around 45 of my works professionally scanned so that I can make high quality prints. I sold several prints of not only my paintings but some of my photography as well.
All of this while working a full time job and maintaining a relationship and playing my games on Facebook.

What I have learned: Selling art is really hard. The marketing part of the art is almost a full time job unto itself and not as much fun. That my paintings are not going to please everyone. That some people are really scared of clowns. That I need to paint 104 paintings a year to make a living. That I really fell short of that goal this year.

So my objective for the new year is to blog about my struggle to paint and get the 104 paintings done. To create the 104 paintings while still staying true to my style. I hope to connect with a few of you as you learn about why I choose that particular image to paint and the struggle to get the work done. All the while working a full time job and paying a little attention to my hubby and my pets.

So please if you have any words of encouragement or if you just have a question, feel free to send me a note I will address them here in the blog. psovart@yahoo.com

I will start this adventure on January 1st 2010 day 1 - 364 days to go and 104 paintings to paint.....

PS: Please excuse my type errors and the lack of punctuation - I was drawing in my note book when they were teaching all of that in school.