Purrs and Whiskers Auction
The auction was yesterday.
I went, and I could feel my heart beating in my shoes when it was time for my art to be auctioned off. The cat's eye study that I did was in the silent auction and had the most bids :) The same woman who bought that, bid the hell out of everyone and took my lion's paws home, too!
I have my first collector!! Yay!!!!!
She actually stalked the art while it was on display this week. I marketed the heck out of it across local Facebook groups so people knew I was donating pieces to an auction. I got to meet her afterwards and talk to her about the pieces, and found out that all that pushing online paid off. I honestly wasn't sure it would, because I have promoted things on Facebook before and they fell flat. I was hoping people would feel differently about a charity auction, and I was right.
I wasn't sure anyone would be interested in my work when I got to the auction. Apart from my pieces, the rest of it was really bright, graphic, impressionist; some of it was very folksy and whimsical, some very crafty and cottagecore, and none of them were realism, which is usually what I do. Suddenly, my two pieces looked very out of place, and I started to have that "getting picked last for the team" feeling that I had in Grade 8 PhysEd.
But I was relieved to know that was not the case.
In other news, I have developed an app to help me do numerology readings. I've been testing it this week, and yesterday, before the auction, I did six successful readings using my chart-casting program. I'm more excited about the art being auctioned, though, so I will talk about my successful reading run another day.
That's all I've got for now, folks! As you were!