Quiet Please

It's been a rollercoaster month.  Along with death threats and art shows came a flood which took out 3 rooms in our already small home and a case of head lice in one of the kids(only one bug and no nits.  Thank God!)  On the upside, the principal agreed to allow me to volunteer with White Mocha to go through the whole school with a fine tooth comb.  Literally.  This is something that has been bugging me for years and the school will finally allow us to at least perhaps reduce the problem a bit.  I very much doubt it will have a large impact, but at least maybe identify a few of the problem areas in some whos parents are willing to do something about it.

I will be picking up my art next week.  I did very well in the show.  I scored very high with two of the judges and good, but not excellent with a third.  She didn't like my use of hyper-realism mixed with an abstract background.  I'd like to say I've learned from it, but one of the pictures in the line-up for the next month is going to be done this way as well.  So far they didn't sell and I don't expect they will at this particular gallery.  Not the right demographic for the youth of the subject matter.  Also the high price of the piece will dissuade anyone interested.  The gallery gets 50% and out of my 50% comes the cost of framing and supplies so the price has to be hiked up to make it worth selling the work through a gallery.  In the case of "Handphibian" I will be making $3.75 an hour if it sells, even with the spiked price.  Hardly worth the effort.  If anyone is interested they are better off waiting to buy direct from the artists.  Not fair to the gallery and they have to make a living, but really, if you spend much time on a piece you're better off not trying to sell this way unless you are only trying to recoup the cost of the supplies.

Please God.....can we have some peace for now?  And I don't mean RIP kind of peace, just calm for a while.