Ebay sales have been totally non existant. Its hard not to feel down about it. I **know** I make art cuz I love to. I **know** the tide will turn and I will indeed sell art again. Its just a bummer
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This is a rotten time to be selling on ebay, I think it has something to do with tax time. My sales have been down since after Christmas, with the exception of books that almost always do well, such as old Dick and Jane readers.
I don't know about your question with regards to finishing work. Maybe you could try some experiments such as stopping before you feel the piece is finished, but then setting it aside and coming back to it at a later time to see how you feel about it then? It's been so long since I have done any drawing or painting, but when I did I lived alone so I had the freedom to leave a piece of work up on the wall and work on it in bits and pieces as I felt inspired.
I often feel this way. If I don't like it, if it's not perfect (or at least what I'd imagined it to be), it's hard for me to put it out there. In general I'm not a perfectionest, but when it comes to something I've MADE, I have high standards for myself...much higer standards than I'd put on anyone else. Sometimes I just put things away and come back to them weeks later (my newest journal, for instance).
For me, it's bigger than just art. I have a hard time finishing any project. I have a hard time w/ a neat house w/o at least one pile of my art crap somewhere in it. I like being able to find things easily and I like the look of neatness, but it somehow makes me uncomfortable too.
But it's not just that I'm waiting for perfection. It's that I don't want to finish. Because then I'd be FINISHED. And then what am I going to do? If I finish it, what if I don't get another idea or project? What if I finish, and it's the last thing I ever do?
i'm feeling blah... related to that finishing thing you were talking about. very frustarting. i posted the progress on my transfer paintings. not feeling so great about them... that whole finishing thing...
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I don't know about your question with regards to finishing work. Maybe you could try some experiments such as stopping before you feel the piece is finished, but then setting it aside and coming back to it at a later time to see how you feel about it then? It's been so long since I have done any drawing or painting, but when I did I lived alone so I had the freedom to leave a piece of work up on the wall and work on it in bits and pieces as I felt inspired.
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For me, it's bigger than just art. I have a hard time finishing any project. I have a hard time w/ a neat house w/o at least one pile of my art crap somewhere in it. I like being able to find things easily and I like the look of neatness, but it somehow makes me uncomfortable too.
But it's not just that I'm waiting for perfection. It's that I don't want to finish. Because then I'd be FINISHED. And then what am I going to do? If I finish it, what if I don't get another idea or project? What if I finish, and it's the last thing I ever do?
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i also like the 3D stuff...
i'm feeling blah... related to that finishing thing you were talking about. very frustarting. i posted the progress on my transfer paintings. not feeling so great about them... that whole finishing thing...
anyway...
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