nov 16

just made this banner and kind of finished up the information i'd needed to put up on etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SheMakesItAll (that's my etsy page :) ) the shop is open for business!

I'm really excited because I just got accepted into the HYPE show with 9 other artists, including my buddy, photographer, Kelsey Foster http://www.kelseyfoster.net/, http://blog.kelseyfoster.net/ (she's really quite impressive).
HYPE will be in the old Dallas Power and Light Building in the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas, DEC. 22, 8pm until midnight. I'll have some oldies and a new painting that I'm working on there, too. Yip!!!

Art Con 7 was this past weekend!! It was a really awesome experience and I really hope I can do it again next year. On last friday-the day each artist had to make their piece for the auction-I was in the 12-4 time slot, but I stayed until 7....so I painted for 7 hours, but, um, let's just say the difference between what I'd planned on making and what I actually made, was... errr. ... large, and little caro learned a lesson. I wanted to try to make a rough version of my abstract paintings so that I could put my name out another time as an abstract painter; but you know, I don't think that was such a good idear. I should have chosen to do something that I could've executed much more cleanly and been a bolder (and even a recognizable) image, which is what most other people seemed to do. I should've also considered that I wouldn't be able to paint with the painting hung up level to my eye on a wall and that the weather was going to be very cloudy-like it had been all week. Anyways, I couldn't see fully what I was making for most of the 7 hours and when I got there the next night for the auction, I was like, "oh. i dont even remember that color.. or that color... or i didnt know that part was there...or ugh." oh well. it was good for me in the long run and i need all the learning experiences i can get. next year i'll think a little more clearly about what i need to do

so anyways, my little charlie brown Christmas tree of a painting got put in the 7:30 pm auction time slot, the earliest one (i'm assuming w the other newby art con people's). supposedly though, for my first year and for that time slot-before the night really got going- i did okay, just $60. but i'll take it for my first time there. all in all i'm so so so happy i got to be in art con!!! i'll be back baby