I got notice in the mail today that I was rejected by the Toronto Arts Council. Everyone suggested I apply since no one gets it on the first try. I still can't help feeling disappointed though. Oh well. Maybe next year.

Well it's 9:15 and I spent the day adding my url to more directories, building frames for my paintings and working on writing a tutorial for building wooden frames. It's progressing but nothing ever progresses fast enough and there is always so much to do with not enough time to do it in. I enjoy the challenge but at times it's gets pretty exhausting

It amazes me how much time is relative to what you're doing. If I'm at the office - the daily grind I have to do to eat and pay the rent - time drags - so very slooooowly! When I get home and have a list of things that seems 10 miles long, I sold a painting yesterday! Yeah It feels so good to put a cheque in the mail for $30.00 to the Toronto Humane Society as I donate 10% of all my art sales to animal and wildlife orgainisations - I can usually barely pay the rent but I really believe that it's the small things we do in life that if I can show by example one person to give something to benefit others it's one of my legacies-- If anyone ever actually reads this they can look on my website and see my idea of impacting the world in my small way... one of the reasons I try so hard to promote my art is so I can do just that (10% to save the world")

 http://www.artbylucindaknowlton.com 

- : Quick clean up the apartment, gotta hurry to get as many submissions art website into as many as I can in a specific time that I allow for that, then sand some frames for my paintings, gosh!I need to walk the talk to do this - now gotta move onto writing a tutorial on creating frames for the website, then it's fold posters to mail out to vets offices for doing pet portraits oops forgot need to practice painting techniques and record my results, - I do an hour of heavenly painting then - gotta walk the dog, feed the cat, oh yeah that little thing I call sleeping and eating. Gotta gulp down some food but of course I'm too wired to sleep... get up and do another hour of heavenly painting - go to bed and then wake up the next day - everything starts over again... rush - rush rush trying to get my artwork off the ground and keep developing as an artist is so difficult when I need to waste 40 hours a week working another 4 commuting and then several trying to get my art to pay for itself and enable me to practice it more. It's a frustrating circle as I know how much faster and better it would develop if I had the time and resources. Then again it's such a labour of love and I couldn't stop painting because if I did, I don't think life would be worth living.And who knows... someday.... 

This is just some ramblings I think of when I get frustrated that I don't get any time to paint. I'd better go read the book on painting still life that I've started to read. The madness will continue , probably as long as I do. Ciao

November 16, 2006

 

I'm an artist. I love painting wildlife, animals, people and just about anything else that catches my eye.

 

My art website is http://www.artbylucindaknowlton.com