Whooaaaah!! A new post!

Please forgive me! Please! I beg of you. Whoever you are. I have so many excuses for why I haven't posted a blog in so long.

1. I moved to a place where I don't have anywhere to

paint.

2. I got engaged, and have been very busy being in love with my fiance.

3. I didn't feel like it.

Those are my excuses. Feel free to volunteer any of your own.

The News:

I started my next set of classes with Joseph Todorovich. So far, 3 out of 4 paintings have been very mediocre. I think this is because I've been experimenting with each class this time around, trying new things. I'm learning things, but after awhile I just want to have a nice product at the end. I think there's a balance. I have one more experimental class to go, and then I'm going to go back to just trying to do a good job. But I did paint one that I'm really happy with:

I had my first proper gallery show! And even better, my painting sold about two weeks later! To someone I didn't even know, which is infinitely cooler than, say, my dad buying it. Silly me, I didn't take a picture of the painting. But I will at some point, and I'll post it. (Promises, promises.)

I'm going to be in another group show at the same gallery in March. It's called The Barn gallery, in La Crescenta, CA. They have a website up, but for the life of me I can't remember what it is. So I'll post a link to that, too, when I get my hands on it.

In a couple of weeks I'll be moving again, this time to my very first, very own apartment. One day I will not have to seize control of my poor fiance's living room for my painting needs, but for now it's at least something!

I also just turned 24. This came with the startling realization that I really need to get it together now and put the pedal to the metal on the achieving-my-goals front. The time is now to make myself a booming career if I want to have kiddies in a few years. Things are definitely shaping up, though! My paintings sales are by far higher than they've ever been before, and it's just going to get better!

More soon. Love, Nat