Last night I delivered my finished commission "Martha's Cat" to my customer at her home and that was the good. It was nice to once again feel the joy from someone who is very satisfied with the artwork they trusted you to do for them. The funny thing was that her two cats including the one I painted came walking up to the painting as it was propped up against her couch like it was another real cat! They quickly saw that it wasn't and walked around and about as I talked with their owner. She told me how the cat that I painted came from a breeder in Ohio and that the cat meowed for two hours the whole way back home. She said she was going to take the painting to work to show her animal loving friends and even fixed me up with a bag of cat food for my cats as I left. It's great to be an artist!

  The bad, unfortunately I hate to say is my day job. Let my start right from the get go that I AM GRATEFUL THAT I HAVE ONE and I mean that, but at the same time it is affecting my art production and business efforts. My job is physical in nature and often I'm left to do the work of two or three for all but the last hour of my shift, sometimes without a lunch. I finally told my supervisor that I am going to start shopping my services around as I'm not happy with my situation but gave him my word that I will still be my professional self until that happens.

  And now the ugly, updating my website. I used to be almost robotic in blogging three times a week and in putting out my newsletter, but again when you're out of gas the production of the artwork itself comes first over the website. I got back to the blog yesterday, and I look forward to making a new newsletter in a couple of days. Be sure to check it out and see how life plays out for me in the next few months. As always, take care and have a great day!