I know I have not posted in a very long time or participated in the group. Putting together your premier show and still making a living takes everything. The best I can do is share the following. Maria, I know that you live close enough to make the opening. I would love if you could make the opening.

I wanted to share a quick story. 20 years ago I gave a small sculpture to a friend for their wedding. Because I am taking my art to the next level I contacted her to see the condition of it and I need to properly brand my logo onto it, cert of authenticity as it currebtly has no signature. She is very excited that I will be having a show this year. More interesting was her teenage son's reaction as I was leaving with the sculpture in hand. He excitedly asked me if I was going to put their sculpture into the art show NFS. I can't properly describe his reaction when I said that I would consider doing that. He was just so excited for such a simple gesture because to non artists, art is a very mysterious and special thing. The point of the story is that we rarely know how much the art will affect people - especially young ones. Make it, get it out there and trust that it is doing good out in the world. 😀

I have not been active in this group since the 30 day challenge but wanted to share the good news that has transpired since. I just signed the contract for my first solo show opening July 12 in San Diego at the Union Hall Gallery. As the title explains it will be a retrospective of my art for the last 30 years or so and will include new work from the past 2 years. More Info to come...

I love this question; my wise business coach Ralph begins every session, asking me this. It forces me to look for the good, even when it was a rough week! :) They say that the feelings of gratitude bring in "good luck" or just good things in general. So the practice of NOTICING the good stuff is important, if you want to draw more good stuff to you. FOR ME: I got a deposit to hold a painting! This was a big one - it's 72" tall and 24" wide, and it's been sitting around for years. It's an awesome piece (photo below) - the collector who bought it loves to pay CASH. He's one of my favorite buyers. October has been really slow for art sales (it always is) and so selling this painting on October 30th saved the month :)

Only 67 days left in this year! What is the one thing you’ll focus on with your art? 👇🏽 Share below! In that amount of time there's Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and New Year's 😬 For my art business: ✅Determine the exact dates I’ll offer holiday sales for www.drewbrophyart.com customers and how much of a sale I’ll offer ✅Send newsletters telling buyers about the sales ✅Social media posts (on @drewbrophy Instagram and Facebook) ✅Create & release new ads for holiday art sales ✅Do one LIVE open house sale for local buyers Our SELL ART WITH EMAIL Clinic starts Wednesday and I’ll share some of my email strategies for holiday there. In 2022 for the month of November we sold $81,000 of art online! Crazy I know…I’ll tell how and why in the clinic. And I’m going to try to duplicate that this year. If you’re an ART MONEY SUCCESS Mastermind member, you get access to the clinic free. 🙌 If not, you can sign up for the clinic. I’ll share the link in the comments below.