The work of an artist

I am always amazed when people  laugh and tell me how easy life is for me as an artist. My day usually goes something like this. I wake up at 4:30  and throw on clothes to go for a walk. I have to get in 10,000 steps a day to keep in any kind of good health and usually if I don't do it early I am working too late to do it.

I am in the studio usually and working by 6:30 or 7. I paint every day -  rain, shine, summer, winter, holiday, weekend, birthday, the morning  after.. everything! I will usually paint until about 10 am. I work in small formats and I am usually working  on a number of paintings at any given time. Oil takes time to dry sufficiently between layers in order to get some of the detail work I like in my original landscape paintings of the Virginia Countryside.  I usually have about a dozen phone calls to retail shops, galleries and clients.... and I have to return those before lunch in order to make appointments for the coming week. I also have mailings to do to prospective clients, and I have the ever constant website to maintain, as well as my ebay site Wynn Creasy Fine Art, LLC. I have  a huge amount of inventory to keep records of filing and data entry is a daily  job.  

I teach about 15- 20 private lessons a week around my daily schedule. Try to make a few openings of other artists and friends in the business and to keep current with the world around me as well. Oh, and yes, I do have a relationship that requires some attention and romance and a meal or two occassionally.

The life I choose as an artist is not easy. But it is wonderful and rewarding. I create beauty and I am able to share with many other people. I have a unique veiw of the landscape around me, and of how art reflects the inner person. Lucky for me I don't mind working really hard to  make a career out of it.