It's September, and you know what that means! At least if I hope you do, but it's kind of weird how my city is one of the only one's in the US that starts school in September. Anyways, I'm back in school! Now that I've started my senior year, I have to really show off. I wanted to do that by creating a fiber arts piece on an embroidery hoop, making this the first time I make a piece like this that actually has a background and something to pull it all together. After practicing a lot last year, I decided it was time to to do something more elaborate:
Isn't it cute? I mixed several techniques, including needle felting, "painting" with felt, embroidery, beading, and there's a little bit of metal wire in their too (for the moth). There are some things I wish I could fix, such as the color of the background (stupid Walmart didn't have a lot of options) but I spent a lot of time on this and am pretty proud of myself. I also just really enjoyed the process, it was fun to document in videos and therapeutic.
I'd actually consider doing this as a side job, I think I could make good money from selling these and it's fun! I left my job this summer, and while I wait for when I can get my license, I'm selling art so I have some spending money. I've unfortunately had several people say they want art and then ghost me, but I've had a good four commissions actually work out. That may not seem like much, but to me four commissions is a lot (especially because the stuff I make takes a lot of time). I'm starting to get the hang of selling my art, so I might set up concrete prices for my stuff and post that on my Instagram. I don't want to go to art school in college, but I can certainly still make money from selling art! Who knows, maybe one day I'll get noticed by a celebrity and become famous.
By the way, I ALSO got into an art show at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) this summer. My painting will stay there until next November and there will be a fancy reception next month. They're even providing refreshments ;). It meant a lot for me to get a little 4x6 painting into an art show at the most well known art museum in my area, kinda epic. I'm going to keep putting myself put there and entering art into shows, I've learned to accept defeat when I don't get in (but when I do get in I go crazy). Soooo yeah that's my life at the moment the end! Not of my life! Of the post!
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