Lisa Call

To Africa

I leave for South Africa this morning. After 28 hours of travel and sitting in airports I’ll be in Johannesburg. I’m bringing my pillow along on the flight.

While I’m gone my small collectible textile paintings will not be for sale via my website as I won’t be available to ship them to you.

I do have another offer for you – a new art project inspired by my trip to South African. You can reserve a piece today at big discounts.

So far quite a few people have jumped on this opportunity to reserve an African inspired ACEO ($14 now and another $14 later will buy you one of my ACEOs – normally priced at $40) and quite a few people are reserving larger pieces as with this discount they can afford a larger piece of my textile art than with my usual prices.

These prices are available until I return from Africa or sell out as quantities for each size are limited. Based on the rate of sales of the ACEOs in the first couple days I anticipate those will sell out, especially after I start posting photos on my blog during my journey.

Full details here: South African Impressions Art Project.

For those of you that already pre-reserved a piece – Thank You – your support is much appreciate.

Make Big Art

In case you missed the announcement, I’ve started a new blog/website called MakeBigArt where I post my articles targeted to other artists. The tagline is Empower Artists as I believe that knowledge is power.

I’ve been asked to mentor/coach other artists repeatedly and it is through the makebigart umbrella this activity will be organized. Although I don’t consider myself a coach, I have no formal training as a coach and I have no interest in being a coach.

What I have an interest in is sharing my knowledge as I love teaching, so I’ll be doing classes, seminars, etc, mostly around the thing I’m really good at – organizing and systems. Although there will be other topics also.

In the meantime I’m writing 1 blog post a week on makebigart and the topic for this week was multitasking and thrashing. Everyone multitasks and sometimes it gets out of hand, using the analogy from the computer world (where the term multitasking came from in the first place), this article looks at how multitasking can go bad and some ideas on how to go about it more healthy.

You can read the article here: Stop Thrashing and Start Processing.

There’s now a link in my sidebar to makebigart to make it easier for everyone to find it also.

 
Now I must jump on my last few tasks before I head to the airport. Not sure when I’ll be posting again, but it’ll be from South Africa!