days go on

here are some other daily paintings that will soon be added to my shop:

i painted!

ok. so i painted more. actually i painted a lot.

i just added more paintings to my shop, https://www.etsy.com/shop/ET2paints it's very exciting. also, i'm at a point where i feel like i'm letting more of my personality shine through. i mean, sometimes it's hard writing the descriptions because i want them to incite people into my work and entertain them but at the same time i don't want to overstep any boundaries. because the work i make is generally abstract, i love that anyone can see whatever they want out of my paintings. and i don't want to put images or ideas in people's heads for what they can use/see/do with my painting. i hope that something will jump out and evoke an emotion or feeling or just make people happy and therefore they'll want to buy my painting, commission me to make numerous more paintings based on my own efforts/ideas and then i'll become a millionaire. i'll probably continue to put money back in etsy because that's where i got my start but i'll vacation in different parts of the world - encouraging children to follow their dreams and anything can happen.

this could happen, right?

side note: does anyone out there know how to make prints of paintings? i'm sure it's easy enough and i should probably just look into it myself but i'm asking because i have a couple paintings i'm hoarding for myself right now because i like them so much. i'd love to be able to share them and keep them all at the same time.

here's one:

awesome, right? yes, i'm biased.

And she's shipped!

good bye little painting! i hope you warm up jake's room! or cool it down... i'm not exactly sure which one he needs right now. maybe it just adds a necessary touch of home.

that being said, i wanted to mention i HAVE been painting and i will be updating my shop soon. i was doing really well on my daily paintings. they were/are mostly small paintings that i can do by my bed based on my mood at the end of the night but then BART ATTACKED! ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration. bart loves to knock over water glasses and since i have been doing the daily paintings next to my bed and i tend to get thirsty/keep water next to the bed in case of coughing fits (yes, i also came down with that awful cold that's going around! yay april! what a fun month.) bart has knocked over my water glass and destroyed my paintings TWICE! i know i should have known better after the first time but apparently i'm not that smart. i was so frustrated too because i had the paintings all laid out because i had redone a bunch that had been water damaged the first time. blahhhhhhh!

stinkin' cat. what are you gonna do? don't say it. i love her. i just wish she liked my paintings undamaged like i do.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I SOLD MY FIRST PAINTING! I SOLD MY FIRST PAINTING! I SOLD MY FIRST PAINTING!

i can't believe i have to work today! it feels like it should be a national holiday! national emily sold her first painting! everyone gets a day of rest and celebration!

seeing that on my phone, the notification that a work of MY art had sold was EXHILARATING!

then i realized who bought it. because they asked for it to be paw printed by bart. (lady bart is my kitten - if i haven't mentioned that yet.) and then i saw the name....

it was my BROTHER! who's currently overseas at a military base! he's always been my biggest supporter of my art. he is the first person to ever commission my art. and the second person, actually. he's such a great person and a great support. but either way, i am so happy.

now i have to get all my ducks in a row for real and pick up some envelopes that can withstand a little wear and tear from the area my little painting is going to! my painting is going some where! people are going to see it! (maybe)

wow.

what a day.

day two

cat daydream.... i'm going to admit something... this was created while i was at work. sometimes my office is really slow and i have a little free time. this was one of those days. where i was painting and thinking about my poor cat and what she might daydream about...... probably getting outside and chasing all those chipmunks she watches so carefully. so in light of her and this spring air and the actual sunshine i can see out my window, this was created:

now i just have to figure out how to sneak outside so i can play with the chipmunks.

day one

shop is opened. i'm still trying to figure everything out but working on it. so why not challenge myself to a new task? let's do it.

my goal is to create one painting each day in april.
april day one looked like this:

to me it kinda looks like a party or something a clown would throw at you. which is kinda awful because i hate clowns. i call it chaos. and that's what yesterday was. pure chaos. between working, opening the shop and trying to figure out how everything works, running around, driving to a bunch of different stores, coming home, actually running, cleaning, laundry, blah blah blah. i finally had time to create this piece (while watching the flash... don't judge.) around 8:30 at night. i guess it could be a celebration piece. isn't it funny how differently you can look at pieces? that's what i love about abstract art. depending on your mood you can bring out so many different things. yesterday, to me, this painting represented the havoc that i created running from one thing to another but today it means how excited i was to open my shop, to start this new journey, to see what else lies in store. pretty exciting stuff.