A Little Bit At A Time

I have decided that I would work on my lino cut a little each night. I set a goal to have a section done before I go to bed. Sometimes it is hard to make time when I work full time as a high school art teacher to produce my own work. Lucky for me I am teaching printmaking this trimester and have the press out. And I will have to do demos, so why not do my own work!

I got into my first major show for me.

Since college I have entered art shows here and there. Most of the time I would get a letter back saying that I was not chosen for this show. Please try again next year. One thing you have to remember with art shows is that it depends on who is juring the show. Becasue one year you can get in and the next you won't. Sometimes it is discouraging and I want to give up. Then I a statics always pops into my mind, and that is only 10% of all artist that graduate with an art degree make a living out of art. I have told myself that I want to be that 10%. Right now I work as a high school art teacher, and I love teaching the kids art. I want to teach my students that you can be an artist and sale your work to. To teach them this I need to sale my art and get it circulating.
My big break came last night at 10 o'clock at night. I just gotten back from Salt Lake chaperoning the debate team, and found a letter from the St. George Museum of Art. With encouragement from my art buddy Shannon I had sent in a painting for the "Zion National Park 100th Birthday" art show. To my surprise my piece "Kolob Fingers" had been accepted. The letter stated that I was 1 of 68 art pieces that had been chosen out of 500 applicants from 38 states and many foreign countries. I was so excited that I tried to call people, but most of them had turned their phones off.
Getting in to this show has made me more excited to create art, and get it out of my trailer and into the homes and collectors alike.