Good Day Fellas,
It is really encouraging as an artist when people appreciate and give good and warm comments about your works but it's more encouraging when people pay or can afford your works that wey it keeps you more active since you can get cash to get some more materials to work.
This was my first painting sold as a professional artist, I created the painting in the second quarter of year 2022 and I was graced to sell it in the last quarter of the same here.
The sale wasn't really encouraging considering survival but then it well enough to encourage me to keep working and producing.
After that first sale, I was having a very tough time trying to get back to creating works because there were and there is so many bills to pay and yet I just couldn't find ways to sell the valuables (paintings) I have in my possession.
Sincerely, Africa isn't a continent where people prioritise art that much and this single factor makes it really difficult for artists to survive well in the continent without doing something else outside art.
After my single sale in 2022, it's just the first quarter of 2023 and I am already lucky enough to have sold the two pieces above and sincerely I now have more strong hope that as long as I keep practicing, my major breakthroughs are somewhere waiting for me.
At the moment, I am studying my past works and some masters works trying to fish out a unique trait for my paintings so that way it's easier for people to see my works and say convincingly that it's mine even without setting eyes on my signature yet.
Kindly share your thoughts as comments below, I'll be glad to read and reply them all. Thanks.