I’m an idiot. I just gave Blake (more or less) my last $25 cash and asked him to go to Curry’s on his lunch break tomorrow to pick me up a pack of three 12×12 inch canvases. I have ideas in my head that I think would be a waste on either of the 8×8 inch canvases I have sitting in my canvas cupboard and I’m going to do those ideas even though I know my bigger paintings aren’t selling right now and that smaller ones or the ACEOs I’m currently ignoring probably would. I can’t help it though, I have ideas and those ideas tell me what to do more than the other way around. As the title says, the Muse wants what the Muse wants and she wants 12×12 inch canvases.

Blake’s also currently helping me with a painting I started to do in the summer but never finished because it involves some code I don’t know how to write. The background’s completely finished for that one and the girl would be too, except I don’t know how long the code’s going to end up being so I don’t know how big to make her. She’s going to be in the same vein as “Binary Ballerina” though and guess what else? There’s MARABOU involved.

So creatively, that’s what I’m up to these days. Or will be as of tomorrow while I finish the final  season of Six Feet Under.

I also have a proposition for some of you. I know that some of the people on my Live Journal friends list are graphic designers and that’s what I happen to need. I don’t have much money to offer, but I do have $20 in my PayPal for anyone who designs me a nice banner that I can use on my Etsy shop. What I have up there right now is just something fast and dumb I threw together just so I’d have something up there and technically the fonts I used aren’t kosher as far as commercial use so I need to put something else up. My problem is that when I installed CS3, all of my paintbrushes stopped working, so I can’t even make a banner like the one on my site. Ideally what I would want is something that shows the kind of artwork I do, but really that’s all I know. Feel free to use pictures of my paintings or whatnot and if you don’t go that route then the pink I use on my site is #FF6699 and the blue is #99CCCC. The banner needs to be 760 x 100 px and I guess the way we’ll do this is, if you’re interested, just e-mail me your banners (Sunny@SunnyCrittenden.com) by say….February 20th and I’ll pick the one I like the best and send whoever made it $20 via PayPal. I realize it’s not a whole lot of money but it’s all I’ve got to offer. :o/ Anyway, I thank you all in advance for helping me out, I really appreciate it.

Speaking of Etsy, last weekend I made my very first sale! I was so excited to see the e-mail, you have no idea. I ended up selling both of the Bitch Barometers I had left, meaning that they’re now all gone, never to be created again! Those things were such a bitch to paint, let me tell ya, and I made 25 of them over 6 YEARS AGO and I just finally sold the last two this weekend. I’m so glad to have them out of my house! And thank you very much to the person who bought them!

My paintings on Etsy are getting a hell of a lot of views, but so far no purchases. That’s okay though, I didn’t really expect them to go flying off the shelves and putting them on Etsy was just an easier process than putting them on my site. As I explained at the time, I have an audience and my audience has seen all of my paintings, if someone in my audience was going to purchase one of them, it would have happened by now and hey, now that they’re on Etsy, I’ll be widening my audience while still enabling my current audience to purchase them if they so choose. Plus, it hasn’t even been a month yet since I added the first ones, so there’s plenty of time to see what happens.

Anyway, I was going to write more but I just remembered something I was supposed to do like, yesterday, that I haven’t even started yet so maybe I’ll post more later, after I’m finished this thing I’m supposed to be doing. Stupid obligations!