Artwork opens doors

I have been realizing that my artwork can open doors. My boss at my day job told me that the reason she hired me was because of my artwork. Never mind that my job has nothing to do with the artwork I create. And now today I have an interview for a job and the person said, don't you belong to the Artist in Praise group? I have seen your work.....

I have a piece in the local art gallery show. I have to admit I have been very lax in trying to promote my work and in creating new work. It has just seemed useless. What is the point in creating artwork and having everyone love it, working hard to promote it and then you never sell it or go anywhere with it. I sometimes feel like I need to go back to creating it just because it gives me great pleasure in creating and not because it can make me money. But yet I would like to be a full time artist and live off of my art.

Hey secretly? Just between you and I? I would like to be like Picasso so that when I go into a restaurant or a store all I have to do it sign my name because my signature is worth more than anything I am trying to purchase! Wouldn't that be awesome?

I bought a marketing workbook for Artists, it has questions you are to answer and then it helps you with the marketing of your work. I have had a really bad time of it emotionally with all the garbage going on in my personal life, so I am waiting to be in the right frame of mind before I start on it. When do you suppose that will be? I am in good company when it comes to that area of my life. So many of the greats sound like they have lived my life. So maybe there is hope for me since I have so much in common in that department!

Bottom line is I have given up on my artwork going anywhere and I know I mustn't give up. Has anyone else been there? What keeps us going?