From my desk, this is a view of what Cameron’s birthday painting looked like yesterday. I’ve done more work on it since, and I need to finish it tonight so it will be dry by tomorrow.
Archive for July, 2007
Number the first
On July 29th, 2007 (so, like two days ago as I type this,) I began scouring craigslist to see what sort of job prospects there were in Portland. At the time, I wasn’t looking for anything immediate, just something that I could do later on when I move. However, because of the ephemeral aspects of so many of the art gigs there, I began trying to snatch a few up locally.
It’s hard work. The internet is kind of a scary place, particularly if you are trying to negotiate freelance business plans and you have to think about ethics, ownership, rights and a bunch of other stuff. It’s also hard to do this if you don’t have much of a web presence — obviously there is no replacement for actually meeting people and showing a hard-copy of a portfolio, but if you are just trying to convince someone you are on the level in the interim it’s unfortunate when your name in a Google image search brings up only an aging folk singer and that one elephant you did when you were like 12.
Not to knock the elephant. She got me far.
My name is Maggie Nichols. And I do art.
from Media Matters, color pencil, 2003
Here I plan on posting sketches, ideas, stuff I’m working on, things that inspire me visually, stuff I’ve recently finished, stuff I may have for sale, and anything else that has to do with art.
