Stumbling on to the social media treadmill

Okay, so I managed to hit the wrong X and lose my first draft since it was only half done last night, so this is going to be a quick re write.

Brrr. I thought the lovely hot sun had gone. It was raining all the time and I was layered up at home again yesterday. It’s not really cold outside but indoors it can get cold enough to stiffen the fingers. But today it's warm and sunny again (yay) and I ate a quick snack lunch in the car park behind Iceland while ogling a parked white Tesla Model 3 ❤️❤️❤️

Pix, pins and posts

Finally got Pinterest done. Urgh. Haven’t really figured it out yet and got in a pickle making a new board which wouldn’t show up when I tried to pin something new. Anyhow, an hour on that and I’d had enough mucking about.

Listed two new pieces on Folksy and tweaked a few things, included swapping out the place holder avatar to match Twitter and Pinterest. The time needed to scan posts, write, respond, update and find new images to feed the social media monsters seems to be expanding. I could view it as another procrastination tactic but since I don't exactly enjoy it I can't say that's the case with me.

Question. How is that the moment you're adding images to some sites, you immediately feel the quality of your pictures (or art!) is not good enough? Is it because the examples of what your site could look like are so pretty and polished and professional? Hmm. What's that thing about comparison being the enemy of happiness or however it goes? Such is modern life in internet land. I just have to keep going and work on constant improvement of everything.

What now?

The intended move back to Devon is...proceeding (or not) in a bizarre way. Had another person contact me with a room match but left a number that didn’t work then messaged the next day to say a friend was in urgent need of a room so it was no longer available. Okay. It's still on by the way. Must be something in the water the way this has been going. But hey, sooner or later things will fall into place.

Now I have to figure out the best way to proceed in this interim period. I’ve mostly cleared out all my belongings and packed up the great majority but kept the most used art materials unboxed. So do I keep working on new stuff or just focus on admin and marketing? Do I make a load of armatures and develop some paintings or revisit my writing projects and see if I can clarify the direction of the two main pieces? I've got plenty of sculpts completed so I don't really need to keep making like mad and besides, a bag of paper pulp takes up less space for storing/packing than more figurines so there's that.

So I hope DAN doesn't mind me sticking the front image from their Open Studios catalogue on here but hey, it's publicity. I hope to be living down there come September but if you're in the area I highly recommend dropping in to see any studios you pass by. The quality of art is superb and you can't beat the location either. I think Open Studios is a great event to attend and take part in after the last year we've had. Flipping through this makes me long to be back there. You can view the whole thing here.

Alrightee, that's it for today. Not a productive art week so far but I have completed my long to-do list so am pleased about that. Guess I should start another one. I think I'm going to spend a bit of time on 2D work for now. Let's see what comes out of that.