My latest newsletter was about resolutions: I am keeping my resolutions for 2011 simple: More chocolate, More painting, More tennis. My newsletters also function as a thinly veiled marketing ploy to get my latest art work in front of people's faces, but you didn't read that here.
To make a newsletter interesting, you have to give people a thought or a glimpse of something personal. After all, they signed up for my newsletter because they liked my painting, so what else can they expect?
Very often, a reader will respond to some blog post I've written saying that I inspired them in some way. I never thought of myself as an inspirational figure ( I think you have to be taller than 4'11"), but I have found the teaching I've been doing CAN inspire other artists to try new things.
So, in my last newsletter, I suggested to readers that they should take the plunge. If there is something you've been wanting to try for a long time, but just haven't gotten around to it, put it on your TO DO list in 2011 - AND THEN DO IT. Hope I'm not sounding too much like a Nike commercial. Most of the time, it's just inertia or plain old fear of failure that keeps us from trying new things.
I wish someone had kicked me in the butt and got me into painting DECADES ago. When I was in college, it was fear of failure that pushed me out of my art major into something safe that would pay the bills when I graduated. If I had stuck with the art, I bet I'd be famous by now!
Click here to see my latest newsletter - then take the plunge.
5 comments:
Carol,I know what you mean. That is why I decided to do something new with my own blog.
by the way,you are an inspiration!
5 in 5 days Awesome!!! 2011 going well for you:) Love your work and I hope you keep that trend going!
Dear Carol,
After reading your message to take the plunge I called a local gallery that I contacted last year and nothing came of it.... about my work and they took a look at my web page and set up an appointment with me to take a closer look. I am very nervous but excited. I can do this. I have come a long way in a year.
You are certainly an inspiration to so many of us...we are here, watching and learning. Thank you once again for sharing so much of yourself with us.
Vickie
Vickie - that is absolutely fabulous news! I'm so glad to have played a small part in your success.
Update from Vickie:
Carol,
Many many thanks for your news letter about taking the plunge.
A week or so ago I wrote you about contacting a gallery. Well I am in! Yeahhhhhhhh....
I took 7 pieces to them and they kept them all...and I think one may already be sold. I am so over the moon...I will be presented as a emerging artist in March.
Thank you again. you never know what a few words might mean to one person.
Have a wonderful day!
Vickie Warner
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