Hi everyone!

I am creating a separate account for my mice for promotional and marketing reasons.

You can can watch my mice at my new account: [link] so please add me there.

This account will stay open for my paintings.

Thanks!

Anna

Next weekend will be the opening night of my latest exhibition! I'm very excited about it as it is the largest collection of my paintings that I have ever shown. Anyone who finds themselves in the neighborhood of Amsterdam is most welcome to come and see it. I will be there from 18.00 to 19.00; I will also be celebrating my birthday that night!

So i sold my soul to make some cash to live on, and it turned round and bit me on the a**. it will serve me right to try to make art for picky opinionated customers who leave no room for my own artistic interpretation. What's the point in hiring an artist if you want a robot? they might as well have bought a photo printed on canvas. it would have saved me and them a lot of time, energy and wasted money. So they ended the contract, leaving me financially in the red. I admit i made some mistakes with this one, it's been hard to give an estimate for such a large piece of work, and i thought i could do it a lot faster than it turned out to take. and if i were them i might have done the same thing, but it still hurts when people call you unprofessional and accuse you of ripping them off... when in actual fact my quote was way way WWAAAAYYY too low in the beginning (and i never asked them to pay me more for what i thought we had agreed on) i guess i just got to put it down to experience and learn lessons from all our mistakes. But right now I'm fuming inside and need to rant.

Life sucks at the moment and it aint just the failed job, the other stuff is far worse and too personal to share with you. At least now i am free from the nightmare job and can go back to making things that i want to. i don't know if i'll be able to paint for a while tho, the stuff they said... it rings in my ears when i pick up a brush, and with everything else in my life right now i... i can't cope with it.

But i wanted to say to everyone who is trying to set a quote for a piece of work, especially if it's in a new area or a much larger project than you are used to... overestimate everything! including time, money and materials (you can always bring the price down again later)! that way you won't disappoint your customer, and you will scare away people who can't really afford your work. because working for someone who is on a tight budget is a nightmare and rarely works out to your benifit. of course if you have done it all a million times before you already know how to price your work and this little rant is of no help to you. but thank you for listening, i really needed to get it off my chest.