I always secretly wished I could be a writer

and now that I've shown my writing to someone who is actually really talented who actually likes my writing, I'm a little bit petrified that oh my gosh, I could actually write something. Basically I was told it was overly descriptive, had a few clumsy visuals, and that I'm over outlining and at this point just need to write it, but that they thought it was good and that even though there are too many of them the descriptions are really good.

I'm really excited about this, especially since my painting won't be going anywhere. The homemade medium I tried to make failed and I don't know about medium well enough to fix it and I don't have the money for liquin. Oh well I was starting to get terrible headaches from the paints off gassing anyway. I'll just have to go back to it once I've got money. I think for now I just need to do some drawings and try to sell those for cheap.

First Big Show Since College

So I didn't have any new work for the show so I showed the stuff from my BFA show (which was back in May of '08). So the show went really well and everyone loved the work, but nothing sold which is REALLY disappointing. I think the longer I live here the more I understand that as much as I love love love living here I need to get my art work into a gallery in some sort of tourist location. Really that's the thing is that people will drop a couple grand on a work of art because they're on vacation and its a "souvenir" but really only if its a super touristy place, and it doesn't even have to be "tourist art" is just needs to be in a location that is easy for drunk people with large amounts of disposable income on vacation to just wander into and you really need an atmosphere that is inviting, it really helps if people don't even know they're in an art gallery till they're in it. Really it seems the key is not that you have to sell out, just that you have to know the way to sell yourself. Unfortunately no one really does touristy things in Seattle, and they certainly don't get hammered at scope out all the shops with large amounts of money. I really do know WHAT I need to do, now the key is just figuring out a way to do it.