Welcome to my new art blog!

This is my first entry in my very first blog---and it's all about art---making it, selling it, living our passion and prospering.  I'd love to hear from you about how you are making it happen too!  It's my goal to totally divorce the term "starving" from the word "artist" and I'm sure that's your goal too!  Write and let me know how you are making it happen for you. 

I live in a beautiful rural area, with seasonal population increases due to the return of summer residents and tourists. Snow is falling outside my window as I write this.  I'm waiting for my first piano student of the afternoon, planning to list some of my paintings on Ebay today, and being really excited about a new auction search tool I just found out about.  It's called the  "shopping genie."  It's a free download that will bring up all the Ebay items you're searching for instantly on your computer just by typing in your search term and you will immediately know what's for sale and what it costs.  You can get it for free by going to http://www.myshoppinggenie.com/easysearch  We really love it and know you will too!  Let me know what you think of it.  It's made our searches so fast and easy that I wouldn't be without it. 

I hope to have some good sales on Ebay, and really like that it's become such a community and less anonymous than I thought it would be.  Being a painter keeps me rather isolated a lot of the time and the work of getting my work out into the world is not my favorite thing.  I like solitude and silence and have trouble with the sales aspect---I really miss my paintings when they're gone.  It seems that today, you have to be good at it all: doing the work, marketing and networking, shipping and handling, public relations and education!  All of it!  And I just want to paint!   Have any of you found ways to reconcile all this?  Let me know.  Let's talk!