So I’m just going to out and say it: Things have not been pretty here at S. M. Lacy Art headquarters the past few weeks. Quite frankly, I’m sort of falling apart. I leave for France 2 months today. Which is all kinds of fabulous and terrifying at once. Mostly fabulous. Except for the part [...]
I was really determined to write a great blog post today. It was on my list. It was my marketing activity for the day. I started writing about 5 lessons I learned about life from the movie, Mulan. It just began to sound cheesy though. So I left it. Maybe I’ll go back to it [...]
As this year winds down, I’ve been thinking a lot about my plans and goals for the year ahead. I’m not really a goals-oriented person, per say – I find it hard to stick to them – but I am thinking about the directions I want to move in. It seems that when I wasn’t [...]
So first, I have a confession to make. It’s going to sound really un-artist like, and I apologize if I shock your tender sensibilities. Dude, I love business and marketing. I know it’s not very seemly for an artist to passionately declare her love of marketing, but it’s true. I was 16 when it dawned [...]
Do you know what is a really effective way to completely screw yourself over when launching 31 new pieces of art and hoping to raise $18,000 to study in Europe? To be far too terrified to properly tell anyone about it. I’ll be honest – self promotion makes me want to throw up. I would [...]
Well things have been interesting since the last time I wrote. (Has it really been a week already?) There’s been some hard stuff, but I’m not ready to talk about that yet. Maybe soon. Jesse’s gone home to visit family, and I’m spending the next 2 weeks alone, for the first time ever. It’s taking [...]
“So have you been selling lots of paintings lately?” Or a variation of that: “You’re an artist? So do you sell lots of paintings?” Gawd, I hate those questions. Because the answer is, inevitably, no. I know why too – I don’t market myself as well as I should. It’s also partially a career thing [...]
So on Friday, I announced that I’m doing a thing – a live painting marathon and auction. Which on the one hand, I’m totally excited for. And on the other hand – oh my god. So nervous! It’s just triggered all of my fears and all of my monsters. Self promotion It kinda makes me [...]
The more I explore my directions in art, and my stuck around being seen, the more I realize that I’ve effectively creatively muzzled myself the past 2 years. My Artistic Direction: The Beginning Just under three years ago, I was painting my little behind off. I’d finally decided that art was going to be my [...]
Apparently, I have issues with it. I never even realized, except when I was writing in my journal this morning, I wrote, out of nowhere, “There’s lots I could be doing to market myself, but I’m choosing not to.” And I sat and stared at that sentence for a solid 5 minutes. Because: 1. I [...]
