A Story With A Happy Ending...

As you guys may know, I work full time, and paint paintings on the weekend.  

  I love my job, but it can get pretty frustrating when i feel the creative urge come over me, and I'm not able to get to a canvas...  I wish i could afford to work 4 days a week.... and have more time to paint on the weekends....

For the last 3 years I have been selling paintings at this adorable little shop in Hillsborough, NC where I live. 

 It was wonderful, my paintings sold so quickly there, and i had a little following, and it was so rewarding.  Recently that opportunity ended, and i was so sad and disillusioned about it all.  I even lost the urge to paint.  I don't want to, nor do i have the time to go to flea markets and stuff like that to promote my paintings... i just don't like doing that.  So, i tried to think of another way, a way i could sell my work, a way that i enjoyed.  

Then one day, Miss Mustard Seed, an amazing, multi-talented  and well known blogger, blogged that she wanted  a cow painting.

So, i wrote her, and said i would paint her one!

 

She's a very busy and popular blogger, i didn't even think she'd have time to write me back!... But she did,  and said she would love one of my paintings of a cow, and so I painted one for her,...

and now my very own original cow painting is on her blog! and in her beautiful home!

 

I am so excited and proud to be represented on such an amazing site as hers. 

Now, so many more people will see my work, and I've had so much positive feedback already.

Once again I feel encouraged and inspired and full of new ideas...

 She told me how much she loved the painting, and it made me feel so good...

I felt myself light up inside again....

So, Thanks to Marian for the wonderful opportunity...

and thanks to Amy at Maison Decor... 

she's been my biggest supporter and confident and friend...

Now I'm feeling like maybe I have found a new way to sell my work and to bring paintings people will love into their lives. 

I also want you to know that I understand it is hard to afford artwork.  If you want a painting or a print, and feel you can't afford it, don't think that!  

don't hesitate to email me about a price, we will figure it out. 

 

And if we have too, i'll help you paint your own!

 Watch for Miss Mustard Seed to do a post with her new cow painting soon !

Here is a little preview taken right from her blog... !

The end....