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Hello my name is Katy Fryd and I am an artist and I'm making these videos to help other
artists who are starting out please excuse my voice I'm not feeling too good at the moment
this video in this video I sort of wanted to talk about how sometimes it is good to
clear your diary a bit in previous videos I've probably said about joining up with organisations
meeting other artists and all these other things to get to do exhibitions and that is
really good if you haven't done any of that and you want to experience some of that but
I think sometimes your diary can be clogged up with doing all these your trying to get
the work done for the exhibitions your then spending time on these projects and exhibitions,
taking them there you might be invigilating or you might be spending all this time maybe
if you are organizing an exhibition as well and you may not be getting everything that
you want out of it so sometimes it is good if you are able to financially is just to
just sort of clear some time especially if you have got a family as well and to say right
I'm actually not going to do any of these other distractions and I'm just going to focus
on a project that I need to get completed or maybe organising your own big exhibition
and to really concentrate on that so that everything you are doing you are working towards
is purely for your own gain and not to take part in these other exhibitions I mean that
can be good to build up exhibitions, group exhibitions that you have done on your C.V.
and things like that and meeting other people but sometimes all these things get in the
way of actually doing your you might sort of be doing this thing all the time and never
actually reaching your goals because these things are such a distraction so if you can
at the moment that is part of the reason why I am making work and selling it on ebay so
I'm cutting out the time I'm spending entering these exhibitions or going to these places
to take my work or the time spent putting the work up and things like that and I've
sort of just cleared my diary so I can work on one project that I really want to do so
that has really helped me because I think I was just getting distracted before with
all these other things there was always something coming up and I thought ooh that sounds good
and I still if I see something that I think that is really good and it is easy for me
to enter because I've already got the picture in stock so I can easily enter something I
might still try and enter something it is really hard to when you start entering these
things to sort of hold yourself back and say no I'm not going to do this so I've really
sort of been careful about the things I've selected to enter and I haven't sort of entered
everything and it's just given me the time to focus on what I really want to do and I've
still been selling but I've been doing it directly through ebay so the time that I've
saved from going all over the place and doing all this other stuff I've been able to do
more work and then I've been able to list it on ebay and sell it from there and so that
is so if you are still needing to make an income you can still do that with ebay but
it has just freed up a load of time for me to then think right what is my goal what is
my next goal what's my next project and really sort of focus on that write down what you
want to do how you need to go about doing it what you need to work on if you don't know
about how to do something to find out how and to work towards that and then it becomes
a lot more real and so you are not because you can get into just a cycle of just exhibiting
exhibiting locally or even if you go further into london or wherever but you may not be
getting anywhere you may be feeling like you are not actually building up to any one big
thing so that is my tip for today, it's just a short one because I am not feeling too good
I hope you found this useful please like the video comment subscribe, subscribe to my facebook
page and yeah thank you very much for watching I hope that helped thank you bye!