With weather being an unusual variety of heatwave for England, it's been heavy heads trying to work through daily tasks. That's not to say nothing has been done, quite the opposite. In the last month I've been working on designing a website for a friend/colleague, as well as some examples of stationery designs which could be of use. This resulted in a neat little payoff which I plummetted in my usual style into other things, notably some more mini easels which work beautifully to display small canvases. My first ever mini canvas painting of a cheery giraffe was recently listed on Etsy.com, testing the water... and shock horror it SOLD!
Amazed, not only money for design work but also an artist. Together with the cover credit for a photoshopped image which was seen on Flickr by a Dutch production company who approached me wondering if they'de be allowed to use it for a cover of their DVD, well it's all a blur.
Would quite like more hours in the day to get everything done, I'm a little behind in my photoshopping, and with the weather so warm the oil paintings have been put on hold (too sticky to concentrate on painting) - but am still keeping up with the daily Flickr photos which at the very least means I'm doing a bit of editing daily.
Finally, the 50th issue of Photoshop Creative is now out, and at least I managed to enter a pic on their "50" theme which got printed, see it on Flickr here.
All in all, I'm feeling a bit more positive about all this design & art work. If only I could make it a bit more of my main income...
