52 and counting

so i went through yesterday and counted how

many paintings i am sitting on at the moment, 

and i am at 52!  this is all good but i 

figure i need about 100 more.

why you ask?  well... i am going to try and

tackle the art/craft fair world.  

(here is a painting so you don't get bored)

so far... i am doing 5 of them,

and am waiting to hear about 3 more...

the exciting bit about all this is i 

applied to be in the cherry creek art festival

(in the emerging artist program) and they

are going to have me!!!  

honestly, i about cried.  we used to live 

in denver and it is THE best art fair i have

ever been too.   so i was SO thrilled.

after the "thrill" wore off i became FREAKED!!!

and i started in on the worry.  how many... what if

people buy them... how many will they buy.

what am i doing?  why did i do this?  oh my

gosh.... what have i done?

THEN, i started asking other artists (amanda blake, and

rachel austin)  for advice,

and my freak-out lessened (sort of).  turns out the

general advice is 4x as many paintings as you think

you will sell.  ???  i have no idea how many

paintings i will sell.  none.  so where does a girl start.

then folks followed up by saying that if you couldn't do 4x

that 2x was realistic.  (this i can wrap my brain around)

basically i thought, well... if i can sell 30 paintings at a show

i would be thrilled, so i need around 60 per show.

so you are now looking at just a few!

52/150  (yikes!  who am i kidding)