Michele-lee Phelan (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} artoftheempath) wrote,@ 2007-10-29 08:24:00 |
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*peeks in*
I've not posted for a bit ... sorry ... been rather busy. I'm finalising paperwork so my taxes can be lodged with my accountant tomorrow. I seem to take a rather perverse pleasure in working with numbers. There is a soothing nature to sorting, filing, and adding up receipts and earnings. I've been working on them for the last week and have spent hardly any time painting. It's been nice. The respite has been quite therapeutic.
But no painting does not mean no creating. I have completed the lineworks for the four final
'Titan' cards - Eos, Helios, Selene, and Themis - and took no small delight in the simple act of drawing, but I only lasted until Friday last week before the need (TM) took over and I had to pick up a brush again.
I spent Friday evening, and most of the weekend, painting Mnemosyne who represents inspiration and memory. It's a very pretty card and I have a feeling she will be one of my favourites in the deck. She's not finished yet, but I suspect she won't be more than a day away from completion.
After my taxes are finalised, I will be spending a few days working on my websites to update them and get my wholesale website online at last, and then it will be paint, paint, paint, and paint. I have a clear run to work on nothing more than card artworks, ACEO's and my book for the next six months.
Speaking of ACEO's, I was rather disappointed by price that my wee witch and kitty painting fetched, and will not be listing any ACEO without a minimum bid of US$50.00 anymore. I'd rather that they not sell at all then go for a pittance. I usually put about 10-20 hours work into each of them, so to have one sell for $36.00 makes my time and efforts rather pointless. If they don't sell at auction, I will sell them through my website for a much higher fee. It might take longer for them to sell, but they will sell and for a fee with which I am happy.
I'm thinking I might also paint half a dozen of them to list on the website first, making them available to the few collectors in my circle who don't like auctions - believe me, there are a few - before I offer them at eBay. I will list them on my website for a few months, adding to their number as time goes by. As I add a new one, I will offer one of the older ACEO's for auction with a minimum bid. Again, I'd rather they not sell than sell for a pittance.
My originals sell ... slowly yes ... but they sell consistantly. I'm not going to allow myself to fall into the psychological trap that is eBay, believing that my work is not worth the effort that goes into it simply because it doesn't fetch a price that reflects that fact. From here on in, eBay will be used as a means to offer the opportunity to get one or two of my ACEO's at a lower price, not an insulting price.
Anyways ... 'nuff said on that subject.
I got an email from Toni from Blue Angel Gallery the other day ... The Moth Queen is going to be used for the cover of their new catalogue. *grins* I'm rather chuffed about that.
Also, I received an email from a lovely lady by the name of Julie, who wanted to know if I would be attending the Mind Body Spirit festival here in Sydney next month. She forgot to give me her email address, so I cannot let her know that I will be attending, but only as a visitor. I'm going in with my daughter and will be spending time with the lovely Lucy Cavendish, but I won't be selling there.
The 'As Above, So Below' meditational cd by Lucy, featuring my artwork on the cover, will be available for purchase next month. I also have another painting to do for a second cd too. I must make note to do that one sooner rather than later. I just want to get a few more card artworks out of the way first.
The mention of card artworks brings me to another wee bit of good news. Production has commenced on Lucy Cavendish's new dragon and faery based oracle deck, The Oracle of the Dragonfae. A total of twenty-three of my artworks are being used in Lucy's new oracle deck, which has a tentative release date of March 2008. Some of the artworks included in the deck are - DarkBringer, Dia Griene, Dragonflye's Door, Fern the Dryad, Lady of the Flowers, the Morrighan, and the Moth Queen.
And on that note, I had best wander off to do my exercises. I came to discover something rather interesting about myself a few weeks ago that has motivated me above all else to lose the weight I have been shrouding myself in. Due to the fact that I have had psychological and emotional problems that are 'weight' related for years, scales are not allowed in our house. Weighing myself is not something I allow myself to do as it often gives a false truth. Instead, I focus on two things - size and heart rate.
Since I began exercising about a month ago, I have lost almost four inches from bust, waist, hips and thighs and I have reduced my heart rate by a wonderful 18 beats a minute. I cannot even begin to tell you all how good I feel to know that my resting heart rate has dropped from a terrifying 90bpm to a healthier 72bpm.
I hope to have shed another four to five inches and have my resting heart rate down to 65bpm by Christmas. *laughs* It's been forever since I had a resting heart rate that low. I currently have a resting of 72bpm and I feel 'ill' if I push my heart rate to 150bpm. That's not good. My partner - who rides everyday - has a resting rate that is down in the high 40's to low 50's and can push his up as high as 200bpm without feeling like he's going to die. It's quite interesting to see how flexible one's heart can become with constant exercise.
My goal is not so much to lose weight, but to improve the flexibility of the one muscle that matters ... my heart and I will only achieve that by doing one thing -- moving.
So, I move.
I've not posted for a bit ... sorry ... been rather busy. I'm finalising paperwork so my taxes can be lodged with my accountant tomorrow. I seem to take a rather perverse pleasure in working with numbers. There is a soothing nature to sorting, filing, and adding up receipts and earnings. I've been working on them for the last week and have spent hardly any time painting. It's been nice. The respite has been quite therapeutic.
But no painting does not mean no creating. I have completed the lineworks for the four final
'Titan' cards - Eos, Helios, Selene, and Themis - and took no small delight in the simple act of drawing, but I only lasted until Friday last week before the need (TM) took over and I had to pick up a brush again.
I spent Friday evening, and most of the weekend, painting Mnemosyne who represents inspiration and memory. It's a very pretty card and I have a feeling she will be one of my favourites in the deck. She's not finished yet, but I suspect she won't be more than a day away from completion.
After my taxes are finalised, I will be spending a few days working on my websites to update them and get my wholesale website online at last, and then it will be paint, paint, paint, and paint. I have a clear run to work on nothing more than card artworks, ACEO's and my book for the next six months.
Speaking of ACEO's, I was rather disappointed by price that my wee witch and kitty painting fetched, and will not be listing any ACEO without a minimum bid of US$50.00 anymore. I'd rather that they not sell at all then go for a pittance. I usually put about 10-20 hours work into each of them, so to have one sell for $36.00 makes my time and efforts rather pointless. If they don't sell at auction, I will sell them through my website for a much higher fee. It might take longer for them to sell, but they will sell and for a fee with which I am happy.
I'm thinking I might also paint half a dozen of them to list on the website first, making them available to the few collectors in my circle who don't like auctions - believe me, there are a few - before I offer them at eBay. I will list them on my website for a few months, adding to their number as time goes by. As I add a new one, I will offer one of the older ACEO's for auction with a minimum bid. Again, I'd rather they not sell than sell for a pittance.
My originals sell ... slowly yes ... but they sell consistantly. I'm not going to allow myself to fall into the psychological trap that is eBay, believing that my work is not worth the effort that goes into it simply because it doesn't fetch a price that reflects that fact. From here on in, eBay will be used as a means to offer the opportunity to get one or two of my ACEO's at a lower price, not an insulting price.
Anyways ... 'nuff said on that subject.
I got an email from Toni from Blue Angel Gallery the other day ... The Moth Queen is going to be used for the cover of their new catalogue. *grins* I'm rather chuffed about that.
Also, I received an email from a lovely lady by the name of Julie, who wanted to know if I would be attending the Mind Body Spirit festival here in Sydney next month. She forgot to give me her email address, so I cannot let her know that I will be attending, but only as a visitor. I'm going in with my daughter and will be spending time with the lovely Lucy Cavendish, but I won't be selling there.
The 'As Above, So Below' meditational cd by Lucy, featuring my artwork on the cover, will be available for purchase next month. I also have another painting to do for a second cd too. I must make note to do that one sooner rather than later. I just want to get a few more card artworks out of the way first.
The mention of card artworks brings me to another wee bit of good news. Production has commenced on Lucy Cavendish's new dragon and faery based oracle deck, The Oracle of the Dragonfae. A total of twenty-three of my artworks are being used in Lucy's new oracle deck, which has a tentative release date of March 2008. Some of the artworks included in the deck are - DarkBringer, Dia Griene, Dragonflye's Door, Fern the Dryad, Lady of the Flowers, the Morrighan, and the Moth Queen.
And on that note, I had best wander off to do my exercises. I came to discover something rather interesting about myself a few weeks ago that has motivated me above all else to lose the weight I have been shrouding myself in. Due to the fact that I have had psychological and emotional problems that are 'weight' related for years, scales are not allowed in our house. Weighing myself is not something I allow myself to do as it often gives a false truth. Instead, I focus on two things - size and heart rate.
Since I began exercising about a month ago, I have lost almost four inches from bust, waist, hips and thighs and I have reduced my heart rate by a wonderful 18 beats a minute. I cannot even begin to tell you all how good I feel to know that my resting heart rate has dropped from a terrifying 90bpm to a healthier 72bpm.
I hope to have shed another four to five inches and have my resting heart rate down to 65bpm by Christmas. *laughs* It's been forever since I had a resting heart rate that low. I currently have a resting of 72bpm and I feel 'ill' if I push my heart rate to 150bpm. That's not good. My partner - who rides everyday - has a resting rate that is down in the high 40's to low 50's and can push his up as high as 200bpm without feeling like he's going to die. It's quite interesting to see how flexible one's heart can become with constant exercise.
My goal is not so much to lose weight, but to improve the flexibility of the one muscle that matters ... my heart and I will only achieve that by doing one thing -- moving.
So, I move.
