Mixed feelings

I have news everyone! Well, as some may know and some may not, tonight was Bregelle's and my time in a small spotlight. I mentioned before that we were having a "meet the Artist" showing at the local coffee shop, Diva's. Our art has been hanging up for about 3 weeks or so, no calls about buying it. But tonight was the night to meet us and I sold a small (8"x10") painting, there were jewelry sales, and I even sold an Altoids tin (I'll post some pics to show you what they look like). As the title of this posting says, I have feelings that are mixed, stirred about inside my soul...for I am actually parting with an original. I haven't sold an original painting since I was like, 17 I think. And I've only sold 4 originals in my lifetime; I mostly sell prints. The first original I sold was to a professor at Montgomery Community College, the same college bought a collaged self-portrait, the third was purchased by a citizen of my childhood community, and the fourth tonight. I'm not really to stressed out though, it went to a good home. I take it as a huge compliment that someone liked my work enough to purchase it. There's only a little bit of me that is posseive of my painting. Thankfully, that is also why I have a scanner. In the end, my news tonight is good news.

Political stuff, I know I know...

Ok, I read this article by Orson Scott Card, a Democrat, about his feelings about Obama and the financial crisis that we "suddenly" fell into. If you are curious about who and why this happened and wonder how we didn't see this coming, it's a really good article to read. So here is the link, read it, no matter what side of the asile you stand on.

Have you ever gotten a gift that makes you feel so cool that you have to tell everyone about it? Well for my birthday, my wife did an amazing thing, she listened to what I wanted for my birthday and found this pen pictured. It's a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. She could only find it in one store in like, Minn. or some place like that. How crazy is that? I would say almost as crazy as me with only 2.567834 hours of sleep. Oh yeah. Anyways, this is what it looked like before I put the ink in, now it's all black. If ninjas used ink instead of blood to write with, they would use this pen. That's how freaking cool it is.



Ps-I drew all the line work in my, Griswold piece with it in like 5 mins, soo cool! Best pen ever...