Man.

I met with the owner of the business where I'll be showing artwork next month, and he said "I'd like 6 or 8 pieces, please. Do you have business cards? You'll want to have plenty, people always want those."

After I left the business, I went and sat down on a bench so that I could process. It sounded partially like this: "Argh! I don't want to give out my phone number, I'm an introvert! I don't want people looking at my Facebook, that's for family only! I don't want to send people to my blog, I can't waste an opportunity to properly market my artwork by forcing them to read my ramblings!" Plus I know how often I update this blog...

So, since getting accepted to show in the artwalk, I have been getting all sorts of business done, in a bit of a panic to be frank. Here are a bunch of bits.

Here is the art walk's website: Madison Park Art Walk.

I'll be showing here: Madison Park Jewelers. September 14 is the opening night. I'll also have a single piece at the Starbucks up the street.

I've made a website: Alyson Lapan the dilettante.

I photographed all sorts of work I have sitting around, to have something to put in the website. Some of it was buried in one of the four portfolios under my bed. Hmph!

I made myself a logo:

I like the way it looks. Not bad for 2 days' work. Impulsive!!

I got business cards printed...WITH MY LOGO ON THEM.

BUT: I still have to produce the artwork.

Ok, that's not to say I don't have any work done. The problem is that I've been tootin' along, painting about 2-3 items a month, and suddenly I kind of want to have 15-20 pieces done, but I only have 8 completed to my satisfaction! Just like how the pressure of needing to do my taxes results in a very clean and organized house, the pressure to produce art is very helpfully resulting in all of the other stuff noted above. I guess I'm just going to have to take what I can get.

Wish me luck!