| Bathing Beauty © Marian Fortunati 5"x7" Oil on Hardboard |
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| Can We Play, Dad? © Marian Fortunati 5"x7" Oil on Hardboard |
By now I imagine you're finding these little paintings are getting weary. I am too.
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| I'll Race You To The Trees © Marian Fortunati 5"x7" Oil on Hardboard |
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| Necking © Marian Fortunati 5"x7" Oil on Hardboard |
I'm not quite halfway to my goal of 25
paintings and I am looking forward to Wednesday when I can take a break
from these little critters and get out to do some plein air painting
with my California Art Club Pals. I'll probably blog about the paint
out on the next post although several paint outs have gone by without me
posting anything. We'll see. Hopefully the weather will be beautiful
by Wednesday.
These little paintings are part of a series of 25 that I'm doing as party favors for my daughter's baby shower.
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2012 Goals
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2012 Goals
I've been thinking a lot about my art, my life and what is important to me. I believe in setting goals which serve as guides to help me improve my work which in reality is my long-term goal. I want to enjoy my art and letting life drive my art rather than letting art drive my life. We'll see how that works out.
- Continual painting daily. I enjoy it... so keep it up.
- Sign up again to study regularly with a high level plein air and studio artist so that am better able to create larger better studio pieces from my plein air studies.
- Paint en plein air AT LEAST three times a month.
- Sketch or draw at least weekly. (Didn't achieve this regularly last year. Hope to do better this year.)
- Continue exhibiting. Seek other appropriate venues to exhibit -- Amass a body of work which will attract buyers and gallery owners.
- Stage a one woman show and seek gallery representation.
- investigate the possibility of participating in an artist's studio tour or open studio event.
- Expand my collector base and use it to seek other collectors.
- Sell 50% more paintings (and make more $) than in 2011. (I didn't reach this goal last year but will try for it this year.)
The above goals are not a lot different than those I set last year, but I think they are reasonable and will help me continue on my artistic path.
3 people commented. Comments mean a lot. THANKS!:
Honestly Marian, I find these adorable and still love that your daughter wants to give these out as party favors. I'm not at all tired of them. A painting is a painting, but when love and joy are thrown in you sure can see a difference. Hope you enjoy your plein aire group today.
They seem ralistic and achievable goals.
You could start the sketching on Saturday as it's Worldwide SketchCrawl Day.
Hi Sherry and Sue...
A friend suggested that the goals were too vague and that I should have interim steps and dates to achieve them... She's probably right...
I WILL sketch on Saturday, Sue.. Thanks!! Good idea..
And Sherry... Today was absolutely wonderful... A beautiful day to paint outside!!
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