Where to begin, where to begin? Well I guess we can start off with the one new piece up on Society 6. Yup only one...we'll get into more of that in a bit. If you'd like to own it on whatever product you want, need, must have. The link is where to go. Okay onto a lot more arty art news and stuff...
My vacation was wonderful. I did do a lot of arting, reading, learning German, bothering the hubby in German...it's what I do. I admit it was really hard to not blog and social media. Yes, I verbed the social media...but as the days passed...it got easier. I was arting and watching tutorials...learning and growing. I'm working on a piece now. It's going to take a bit. There was an epiphany of sorts that happened. I will say that the hubby was the first to point it out, the series Black Mirror just drove it home. One episode in particular, which I can't remember the name of or which one it was...all of them so far are very thought provoking...but the one episode just floored me. I shall digress in a different paragraph.
Things are going to be changing around here. I'm not going to stop blogging. I love to blog. I will not be vlogging. Instagram is going to be going dormant, Deviant Art will probably be going that way as well. Why? Well the tutorials I was watching was all about marketing and social mediaing and that it's just as important if not more than art. What? Wait a second! That's not right...well it's not right to me. Then the episode of Black Mirror having ratings and constantly watching your stats on your likes and not being able to get certain services if you didn't have a certain score drove that nail in the coffin, per say. I had a what the fuck am I doing moment. I bust my ass on social media, and I know you have to be on social media...but it was taking over why I started this in the first place. The love and passion I have for the arting. I was mass producing abstract and while I do like doing abstract it's not what I want to do ALL the time. I want to explore and learn and really delve into a darker side within the surreal genre...and even some illustration...or whatever genre the canvas ends up in. I don't want to just be some mass producing artist that is a social media whore. Right before the vacation I was burning out fast.
The burning out was from all the social media stuff...the stress of promoting the sales...yeah I missed a lot of promotional sales, and possible sales from it. I just can't do it anymore. It's stressing, not fun. Not to say I will tell you when a new piece is up, I for sure will and if a killer sale happens to be on when I'm here, well that is a bonus. I will be cutting the hump day blog out. Again this could be temporary or permanent. Monday will be THE day. If something really amazing happens that can't wait, I'll for sure share it with all of you. It's not the lack of love for blogging or me not appreciating you, my minions, I really do appreciate you. It's just too much on my plate and the art is suffering. I started all of this to share my art with you. My think got way too many pink kinks in it and I wasn't seeing straight. It took actually taking a break to allow me to see what I was doing to myself. Yes, it's the proper way to market, etc. Minus me not doing a vlog, but oh the desire to it was very strong. Everything got all blurry...I was burnt out. The vacation is what I desperately needed to focus again. I'll be taking more vacations from now on. Here and there. It was nice. It's actually a bit scary posting what I'm posting, because I'll be focusing less on social media and more on art.
So that being said, Society 6, Facebook and Twitter are going to be my main social media sites from now on...and Society 6 is a store, not really social media. I want to get back to putting art that I poured my soul into. So I may not have new product every week. I did finish one piece and am working on another during my break. Dark, creepy, surreal...for the one I'm working on. Very surreal on the one that will be up next week. I didn't have time to get it resized and ready to go. I'm also not going to be counting and obsessing over my likes, follows, etc. I actually took it out of my art journal. I will log in hours, but most of it will be quick sketches, written ideas, etc.
In the last of more news...I'm happy minions, I hope that you all will still continue to enjoy the pared down but more quality art by me. I still have my goal of being multi-lingual. I'm getting good at the Germaning. Hubby verbed that one. This is not a New Year resolution, I don't believe in those...they just set you up to fail. I have been working out or as I like to say, torturing myself. I had to take a week off because I fell up the stairs...yes, that happens. I'm a klutz. It was on a Dad Day, so thankfully he could peel me up off of the cement floor. I bruised both my knees, that wasn't fun. I am working on our next gaming session. Ideas are brewing, which crosses over to my arting a bit, too.
On that long note, minions...I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season, whatever it was you were celebrating and that 2018 is amazing. I'll be back, next Monday! Unless something mind blowing happens...until then I bid you an adieu.