If anybody ever reads this, they might wonder where I suddenly disappeared to after my last post. I never meant to disappear like that, but one thing leads to another and before you know it lots of things have changed. I found myself spending much more time promoting my work and the work of others on Fine Art America. I started to use social media to promote my work too. However, after I had ploughed hours of my time into all that and my blogs, I was left wondering what exactly I had achieved. Apart from over stretching myself, there are several positive things which have come from all this. Firstly, I have made a whole lot of new friends on the Internet through Fine Art America. They have been a huge support and encouragement to me. Secondly, I can now search for myself on Google and find quite a few of my paintings and photographs. The most important positive to come from all this, is that I managed to keep painting last year, having had a break from painting of eight years. I think the final total for 2013 was 26 new paintings. Even more important, I'm still painting in 2014. Only 4 so far this year, but 3 of them are as good as anything I've done before. It's only the second time since my childhood that I have painted in two consecutive years.
So where do I go from here? Well, most importantly, I need to find a real job because being an artist will never pay enough to live on. I also want to keep painting regularly, finding new subjects and improving wherever I can. Finally, I want to get noticed. I would at least like my paintings, many of which are of my town, Borlänge, to come up when searching the Internet for pictures of Borlänge. At the moment they do not. Now I'm going to disappear again and try to 'make it happen'.
