Review of 2011

Review of 2011

I count the following as my achievements in 2011:-

• Sold work at the 2011 Society of Feline Artists Exhibition and was asked to sit on their selection committee for 2012 onwards.
• Created two coloured pencil guides, a tabby cat and a dog
• Created a reasonable amount of ACEO's, all of which sold, thanks to my repeat customers
• Continued to blog at least once a week, however see below for what I felt wasn't successful.
• Built up a large body of reference photographs including animals and birds in their environment
• My work was featured in Talking Point the magazine of the UK Coloured Pencil Society
• Had a painting accepted for the NEWA exhibition
  

The following I was less happy with:-

• Entered less exhibitions than I'd planned at the beginning of the year due to spending too much time browsing the internet rather than painting new work.
• Only had a stand at two shows, Patchings and the Supreme cat show, again this was less than I'd planned to do.
• Didn't create enough work especially for my planned UK wildlife series
• Didn't feel my blog had a wide interest, it tended to revolve round the painting and drawing of cats. I was also slow posting comments which I apologise for and promise not to do this year.
• I didn't manage to write my online course which I'd hoped to do in the Autumn

Looking back over last year although there were some highlights I feel that I lacked focus, tomorrow I'll share what I plan for 2012 to address that.