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My continuing dream is: Someday oil paints. But that ‘someday’ is as far away as usual, if not farther. I just ordered more acrylics and brushes from Jerry’s Artarama. Then I added $200 worth of acrylics to my cart! They are more expensive because they are Charvin and Holbein which have gorgeous colors that other brands don’t. Same with the Holbein watercolors which I also dearly want more of. Of course I’m not going to get them. Whatever I buy is dictated by what I need most/am working on. So I’ll be checking my money on hand to see if I can afford some watercolors. The answer is probably no considering how much I spent on the failed abstracts. Read on to find out more.

After an early spate of successes and sales of art it has completely dried up. I haven’t sold anything three months or so. It was nice while it lasted, but I need to remember that this is how my life goes. Enough success to make me think maybe this time I’ll succeed only to have the rug pulled out from under me. And yes I know I have failed to make merch. I am trying! I am still struggling with photo-editing software, and the cost of getting an initial print run for even ONE postcard design. It’s generally around $25 for the cheaper postcard stock/print paper and the minimum run is around 30. That is one design. So I get a bunch of one thing printed.

Unfortunately I haven’t sold any art in a few months and while my game paycheck has seen a boost, the majority of it still goes out the door. I set some financial goals for myself, basically trying to stabilize my bank account at XX dollars. I reached the first but have yet to crack the next goal.

In other art news I misread the deadline for the abstract show… So I have until JULY 16th to get it done. I am so ashamed of myself. I keep doing this- misreading the deadlines for these art shows. BUT I will say, the three panels I worked on and sweat blood over and had no less than three emotional meltdowns over, has been good practice? I may post them, but I’m so embarrassed being dumb that I might not. Let me cool off. I will say, I learned a lot. The colors are pleasing and the pieces are balanced. So that’s something I guess. But now I have time to work on another abstract?!?! WTF am I doing?? WHY did I pick THIS show to submit to!?!?! WHY AM I THE DUMBEST FUCKER EVER? Fucking abstracts?!? Are you fucking kidding me??!?!?

If you want to see the abstracts you’ll have to go to my Instagram @che_hime and see them there. I’m not going to deal with posting them here. So no art this week!