3rd place

Disappointingly for me I didn’t win the prestigious honour of having my artwork on the 2010 white pages. However, a bronze medal is still an honour. I get $500 and go to the Art Awards in March, and will get a certificate or something I presume so that is still exciting and it has been a very exciting few weeks. Congratulations to the other two finalists who got second and third. I don’t know which one won as yet.
Yesterday when I heard I was a little sad and old feelings of only being average at everything propped up. Today I feel better and still validated and appreciate that being selected as one of only three is still a very big achievement.
I am back feeling motivated to materialise a plan I have had for a while now - and thought a lot more about since I got selected as a finalist - to create some more works and have an exhibition and get a webpage and get some of my ideas into production to sell online.

Waiting

I should find out before Friday if my artwork has won the voting competition. Fingers crossed!

Validation

In August 2004 I finally got my very own digital camera and began taking LOTS of photos. Some of these were beautiful shots of Wellington buildings on sunny days where they stood tall, proud and glittering.

I played around with some of these images in photoshop. I had an idea for making tees that would feature these stark contrasted images against bright coloured backgrounds, experimenting with different colours.

When the Yellow Pages Art Awards came round, I entered a compilation of these images but the entry disappeared into the cosmos as all my entries had done in the past. I have no idea how many times I entered. Around 5 times I think.

This year I was just too busy to bother - too much work on to think about spending time being creative. However, the Art Awards people send out reminder emails and when I got the last one - a day or so before shut off, I decided to enter the compilation again and be done with it.

AMAZINGLY enough, it got selected. Out of how many I dont know - but there are only 3 in the final. Its now down to the vote and so I have begun a political campaign to get as many votes as possible. People have been SO generous and have forwarded this on to all their contacts. its been amazing. I have been so humbled by so many well wishes and so many complements. Its been wonders for my social networking too.

I dont know when I find out the results but entries finish on 22nd November. If you happen upon this blog and wish to vote yourself, the link is: http://www.yellowartawards.co.nz/vote.php

The Pig of Happiness

Low profile

I'm head down bogged with work at the moment trying to finish off contracts for my old job while my new job is starting. I spent all weekend working and I HATES it. If ever I needed convincing that I need never do this kind of work again on contract, I have been convinced. I would MUCH rather be sending my art inspired creations around the world like Kim. GO STICKYTIKI.
So I wont be posting much for a few weeks because I didnt want this to be a moan about my work sagas but rather an log of my new creative life.
1 manual out of 5 done. Just another month of slog to go me hopes.
[sigh]

Headache free

Today I woke up without a headache. I even went for a run and no headache - usually runs bring on headaches for me. Oh Bliss. Touch wood it lasts...

5 days and counting

It's been 5 days since I had a drink with caffeine in it and I am still headachy, though on saying that I am way way WAY better than the Hellish mire of pain and nausea that beset me on Thursday and Friday.
Still, I'd have hoped to be headache free by now. I keep getting horrible thoughts that I have a brain tumour or something. Silly I know but a close school friend of mine died recently from a brain tumour and she didn’t know a thing about it until she collapsed one day, by which time it was too late to do anything. She had been suffering migraines for years. I have been suffering headaches for years too but I was also a heavy caffeine drink consumer and most headaches were there on waking and would be eased with a coffee or tea so were obvious caffeine related.
I'll give it a few more days and if they don’t go away I'll see a doctor and demand a brain scan.
So there.