Good News!

I received a letter today inviting me to submit for the Women Painters of Washington, Assoc. (This means that I passed the first tier of approval. I have now been accepted to be 'juried' by the entire WPW Assoc! .... I have never had to be juried to be juried before...) Anyway, I am pleased and now I have to select and frame 5 paintings to be viewed and juried by the membership at large. I plan to follow through with the process and hope for the best. I will blog the results! I promise!

I also had a few hours to start a new painting! YES!!! It is a storefront scene of a wonderful old building in Port Townsend, WA. That was the best part of the day!

The Work

Today was spent doing "the work" of being an artist. I worked on a couple of paintings that are evolving; varnished a few paintings to ready them for a show they will be in soon; revisited and worked on an old painting (that I never resolved) with fresh eyes; and spent some time preparing my files to do my taxes. While working these tasks, I realized that I really am following my passion. This is work that I'm not getting paid for, but am driven to do. I actually enjoy doing the mundane (all but taxes) tasks of layering varnish and slowly moving a painting forward. I guess you would say I'm following my bliss. YES!