Excited and Thankful

I am so excited about what is starting to happen with my art endeavors. I have finally gotten to add more of my artwork to my website. I know it has been pretty quiet on here. I am figuring out how to get things revved up and really going. It is so fulfilling to get to start realizing my dreams when it comes to putting my creative works out there to show to world ( literally! ).

I am thankful that we have the technology available today to present our works in such a way that it reaches so many people so easily. Thank you to everyone that takes a look at some of what I have done. I have a lot more to get caught up on posting. Some of it will be amateurish because it will have been from when I was a teen but I know people have enjoyed looking at my stuff from back then also, and I don't want to restrict showing just my new stuff. I think that is a mistake a lot of people can and have made is to not show how much they have grown as an artist by posting their early work when they really started to buckle down.

Some of my artwork when I post it will have some of my poetry that goes alongside it also. That is also something I am excited and a bit nervous about putting out there. We shall see how everything works out.

I want to give a big shoutout to those people in my personal life that have been giving me those little pushes that have gotten me where I am today:

My husband Matthew: He has spent so much time and money already to encourage me to follow my heart.
Scott Martinson: A fellow artist that has taken pictures of my work for me and hung out and given me someone to vent at as a best friend also feeling the joys and angst of following their dreams.
Glen: Who also has taken pictures and encouraged me to follow my dreams.
My mother in law Kathleen: She has her own way of gentle encouragement when she shows her delight in my work.
My children: They are a wonder little bunch. My daughter Janelle has a tendency to want to steal paintings for her own. My son Craig who gives great feedback and my son Aidan who wants to be able to create with me.
My grandmother Orla Delle: She has been painting for about 32 years and has always been supportive in whatever creative stuff I have done even if it meant enduring my weird food concoctions as a child.
The people that told me that my poetry and my art were a waste of time and I had more important things to do, and my ability to finally give them the "finger".
The friends and family that give me positive feedback.

In the meantime happy browsing.