It always is really exciting when people like my work. I’ve tried now to post up the in-between scenes between my paintings on social media. I was surprised that it seemed to resonate with others. It is a virtuous loop.

I still recall when little seeing other people’s sketch books and being in awe of them. But when I look at these sketches I made, it’s almost as if it was not my own. It had to be someone else who made them.

Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. Definitely need a good gulp of the “haters” to keep my ego in check. That said, even when I received a negative comment, some months ago, I thought, “Wow, I didn’t realize my work was actually important enough for someone to hate it!”

The Toronto School of Art reposted my video in a story I made which was cool, and I am very grateful for the additional exposure. Perhaps I should tag these institutions I’ve been part of. It was really neat to get a like back by the Toronto Public Library for one of my posts, where I shared my gratitude for being able to scan my paintings on their thousands of dollars high quality scanners.

I have a few more applications to work on – it is more work than I thought to actually apply to art festivals. But if my goal is actually to get rejected 5 times for the upcoming year, I better get cracking.