I don't know if I've mentioned this but I am an artist as well as a writer.
I do watercolors professionally (here's a link to my website!) but I like painting and drawing almost anything. I post most of my non-watercolor work on an account on Deviant Art (another link!). I know, it looks like a totally different art did the art on those sites. I think I should put more of that other illustration stuff on my watercolor website but like I said, it doesn't even look like I did it.
Anyway, the whole reason that I wrote this post (and then had to rewrite this post) was because I wanted to tell everyone the good news. I was working yesterday on my websites, this blog, reading some books on copywriting and just being super productive when I got a text message from my brother, Garrick. He said Stu thinks that I'm the next artist going up and that he'd call me soon.
Everything screeched to halt (which was impressive since my butt was pretty firmly planted in my big squishy couch) and I started to freak out. Stu was the manager at this bar in Uptown Dallas called JR's and they are pretty dang popular. Stu lets artists come in and hang their work and it often sells. Garrick had introduced us quite a few months ago and there was a long wait to get on the walls at JR's. I had actually forgotten bout it and when I got that text I freaked out.
I don't have any work that would sell really well in that space. Even if I did, hardly any of my work is framed and presentable. Garrick said not to worry, that I have like one or two months to get everything together but he obviously doesn't realize how much time it takes to start, finish, press, frame and get everything together to sell it. So this means that I'm going to get very busy very very soon.
I also started another blog, this one for my license plate business. I know that's a really weird thing to sell but its really a niche market and I've got it pretty much covered. I want to cover it even more, that's why I started the blog. Not to mention, more stuff to put in my copywriting portfolio. A lot of what I was thinking of writing for that blog though is life writing and I might be able to put that together for a competition or something. I also want to see about publishing in some car magazines or in the license plate collectors magazines.
Ah! So much work to do and so little time to do it. I love this feeling! I am so ready to work. I think it's a little funny how I just decided three days ago to get my life together and look at all the stuff that's happening already. If only I had gotten the motivate to do all of this a little sooner.
I'll leave you with a lovely self portrait that I did last year. I think the back of the piece says "I really love my hair."
KB
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