2013: In Review & 2014: Doing What I Love
2013 (the year in review)
I'M BACK!
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| 2013 In Review |
Highlights & Opportunities to Grow
Opportunities to Grow 2013:
- growing back strength, hair, and life post-cancer 2012
- doing art therapy
- studio time! (gaining steam)
- painting waves on paper and participating in the annual Holiday Sale at ArtSpace Maynard
- committing to blogging regularly
- committing to more daily art (in and outside of my studio - including getting my girls off screens and painting :-)
- exploring lots of social media options/technology goals and beginning to learn a lot that will help me expand my reach
- meeting with a financial planner to figure out our goals and how to get there
- getting my art business its own bank account
- Munson Gallery transitioning to online business only (after sale of physical gallery)(though still showing my work at Pisces and now also Vining's Bistro)
- Mark August in downtown Chatham, MA now showing my work
HIGHLIGHTS 2013
- Creating a post-cancer treatment painting to process it all
- Completing "Mail Art 2012"(thanks KR!)
- Becoming a Jeep owner (thanks FJH) & loving every minute
- Taking an incredible trip to Northern California with college friends and seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time!!!
- 1-year clean scan in November :-)
- Frank's new job as Chief Development Officer of www.expectmiraclesfoundation.org
- Hair, energy, life!
- Practicing daily "HLG"(high, low, gratitude)with the family
2014 (looking ahead)
Getting it Done/Doing WHAT I LOVE
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| To date in my studio 2014 |
Goals for 2014...
STUDIO
- Paint Paint Paint ****number one art goal for 2014
- Clean up studio
- Organize and arrange studio to make more conducive to creating
- Make more time for studio
- Paint on more surfaces (paper, board, canvas)
- Paint for longer stretches of time
- Take video of the making of a painting
- Play more
- Experiment more with color relationships, edge, paint application
TECHNOLOGY
- Watermark my images
- Explore online marketplaces: website and/or Etsy
- Approach galleries and other selling venues beyond Chatham, MA
- Look for showing opportunities at new locations
- Trying to get some press in local publications (especially coastal)
- Network more
- Education: blogging, tweeting, photographing my work regularly
- Blog regularly (once a week?)
- Update website (keep current on a seasonal basis)
- Catalog and track my art sales
ART (NON STUDIO)
- More art in summer and on school vacations - gallery openings, watercolor painting, photographing, writing, etc.
- Incorporate art into my daily life (with my girls, watercolors, sketching, seeing art shows, reading about, stopping to look at and feel the world around me.)
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