Diane Clancy’s Art Blog

This is one of my dreamscapes … Yesterday Sadia of Sadia Paintings said she liked “How about this one? Digital” the best out of the several paintings that Mel had put in his feature of me and my vibrant, colorful paintings … so this is dedicated to Sadia … it is a different color but I think she will enjoy the texture. I just found one of Sadia’s images that I just HAVE to share with you … it is utterly incredible!!  Here is the post for this image.

This is also not my usual palette (nor Sadia’s) but I hope the form, texture and meaning will delight Sadia!  I see the center of calm in the middle of this painting as the heart or stillpoint as all the motion of emotions and dreams swirl around this center of peace.

Stillpoint, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am still dragging from the time change and all the tension of the family issues I have been dealing with … I am hoping to have more energy tomorrow. In the meantime, I am at least sometimes supporting my own Stillpoint. Thank you for stopping by! I would love to hear about you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Quick post today … Here is a dreamscape … I have been sick the last few days … so this probably expresses my sense of overwhelm from not feeling that well. Remember to participate in my free giveaway -  you can see mine right here  One World, One HeART GiveAway.  It is free to enter … I would love to hear how you are doing. Thank you for stopping by!

Purple Daze, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

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Mark Forster has a time management system – AutoFocus. You can test this for free. A free call about using Social Media (Facebook) for marketing is happening tomorrow.

Many of my regular readers know that I have been on overwhelm mode for too long. I found out a resource that I want to share because it is working so well for me.  Mark Forster has a system that is close to what I have used when I am functioning well … but with a couple of important tweaks.  There are a lot of resources at his site  http://www.markforster.net/ but what really excites me is his AutoFocus System – free to test and it will be free to everyone once it is fully tested.  I am very delighted to be putting it action today.  It has helped me break through the chronic overwhelm I have been struggling with – for too long!

Circus Whimsy, Digital © Diane Clancy

They are wanting new Beta Testers (no pressure, drop out at anytime).  Here is how you sign up:
http://www.markforster.net/blog/2008/12/22/new-developments-testers-wanted.html. To volunteer, all you have to do is this: enter your email address in the “Sign Up for my Email Newsletter” box in the right-hand margin (link above), and then on the page that comes up tick the box marked “Beta Testing” and press the Submit button.

There is another free call about using Social Media (such as Facebook) to boost your business. This call is tomorrow (Tues, January 20, at 8 pm).  Leesa Barnes is offering this free call in preparation for a huge, week-long Social Summit Meeting which starts the next day. But we can listen to this call and get some more good tips from her site http://www.marketingfit.com/.

To sign up for this free call, go to here http://www.marketingfit.com/free-preview-call/ – which will take you to http://www.socialmediatelesummit.com/2009/. You need to scroll down and down and down to find the sign up form – but it is there. There are also recordings available if you can’t listen to the call … so I encourage you to sign up if you want to use Social Media to market.

This new dreamscape is definitely one of my vibrant, colorful paintings … are you enjoying this new dreamscape series?  I would love to hear how you are doing. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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ProfileLinx.com puts all your social networking links on one page. It is a free, fun, useful site that puts all your links together so your friends can find you everywhere!

ProfileLinx.com is a new site I have found – one that puts all your social networking links on one page. It is a free and extremely useful site that makes it easy to see all the places that your friends are hanging out on the web!  Here is my profile http://profilelinx.com/dianeclancy/.  This way it is a lot easier to network and connect and do all that cool social networking!

Aqua Fantasy, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am featured in a blog, AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles, the other day with one of my vibrant, colorful paintings .. There are some other lovely pictures on this post also … please go check it out. Here is the image that is on the blog – but go check it out there. Angel Love is a great gift for a Valentine – you can find it here at Etsy. It is also available in other sizes if you would like.

Angel Love, Digital © Diane Clancy

I would love to hear from you how you are doing. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Mark Forster has a new method of time management, using the concepts of “Thought – Decision – Action” or “Stimulus – Response.” These are wonderful, new, useful concepts.

I read about a really cool site Get Everything Done (http://www.markforster.net/) so I went and checked it out. Mark Forster has 3 books (at least) and numerous articles about various ways to tackle life so that we may be the person we really want to be. Time management and organization can be the foundation for what we want to do with our lives.  Yesterday I read the first chapter of a book that was a big WOW for me … keeping reading to find the change in vision that chapter gave me.

Dreamscape III, Digital © Diane Clancy

I used to be very effective at getting enormous amounts of things done … often feeling pretty relaxed.  But circumstances have changed and many readers of this blog knew I have been in an overwhelm mode for way too long.  This first chapter (never mind the whole book) has given me a life-line to get back my serene, creative, joyful self!

The key – we each have two parts of ourselves … part of our brain uses “Thought – Decision – Action” and another part of our brain that acts from “Stimulus – Response.” I have been on automatic coming from Stimulus – Response.  Working with these two principles is his new system of time management. You can read the first chapter for free right here.

It has been very helpful to me today.  I can see the places I am still being reactive to stimulus around me.  And I was also able to stay focused a chunk of the day.  I have been tangling with taxes and other financial details that I need to do.  I guess I am tired enough still that it is being difficult, but I did stay focused and got a lot done anyway.

I think I can go quite a distance playing with these ideas to help me get back on track. Mark has this fantastic list of tasks and he asks us to decide whether they are “Thought – Decision – Action” or “Stimulus – Response.”  I was surprised by some of the answered but it sure helped me GET the idea!! He has lots of resources on his website – definitely worth checking out!

What do you think? How do you manage your time?  Are you on track?  What needs to change for you?  Thank you so much for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Diane Clancy created another Dreamscape. What do you think of these dreamscapes?

This is another of my vibrant, colorful paintings … I am enjoying these dreamscapes … how about you?  What do you think of this one and …  Dreamscape I and Full Moon?

Dreamscape II, Digital © Diane Clancy

Today was a rough day with house things .. but it is more manageable now … these things always take so much longer than expected!  I would love to hear from you how you are doing. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Diane Clancy is featured at The Arcade, a storefront with her items from different shops all together. SlogBite is a new directory of blogs where you can be listed now.

I want to share with you that I am featured this week at The Arcade.  The Arcade is a portal, a brand new concept – a storefront with items of an artist from different shops all together.  In the middle of  the main page of The Arcade, this week my Arcade Shop is highlighted.  This one portal shop has mugs, tiles, totes, custom postage, journals, prints and more – all showcasing my luscious, vibrant, colorful paintings. This idea solves much of the problem of searching through multiple shops to see what a particular artist or crafter makes. It helps the artist and the customer be able to connect!

Full Moon, Digital © Diane Clancy

SlogBite is a new directory of blogs and sites that will be launching in March 2009. They are currently accepting applications to list blogs now – I have listed this blog in several different categories since I post about various issues.  You can go to http://www.slogbite.com/entry-form to enter your blog into the directory. If you do, I would love it if you mentioned you found out about SlogBite through Diane Clancy’s Art, http://dianeclancy.com/blog.

On the sidebar you can find a widget with a direct link to SlogBite .. also it shows which categories I am currently listed in. It is a ways down … so keep going to find it … it is purple in the middle.

I would love to hear from you how you are dealing with these issues. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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A portal is a brand new concept – a storefront with items of an artist from different shops all together.

Both shoppers and sellers have a great variety of choices online … in fact this incredible range of choices is both very freeing and can also be fairly overwhelming.  One shop has mugs, tiles and totes, another has custom postage while a third has prints of those luscious, vibrant, colorful paintings. How can one even know what is available?  There is a brand new concept – a storefront, a portal, where you can see items from all sorts of shops all together.  This idea solves much of the problem of searching through multiple shops to see what a particular artist or crafter makes.

Dreamscape, Digital © Diane Clancy

The Arcade at The Hand Made Product Directory allows one to do just that!  It is a pretty simple concept once you get the idea. I put my mugs and tiles from CafePress, cusomter US postage from Zazzle, posters from RedBubble, Art Cards (ACEOs) and framed reproductions from Etsy all in one spot so people have more choices in a manageable way.

Take a look at my storefront – Diane Clancy’s Art – it is a portal where you can go to look at merchandise from many of my shops all at once.  Conundrum I is one of my vibrant, colorful paintings that many of my customers love. On one page you can see Conundrum I as a mug, tile, tote, postage, ACEO, poster and card.

To me this is a revolutionary way to make online marking much more convenient for both artists and our collectors.  Another big advantage for us as artists and crafters is that this whole site is “human edited” … this means that someone helps make sure the images and the descriptions showcase your merchandise to a good advantage.  Most sites are computer edited … so this is a big plus … personalized help.

I encourage you to check out the whole Arcade – both for sellers and buyers.  My post from a few days ago talks more about the Arcade. Starting Monday each week one seller will be featured – I am going to be the first one on Monday … so I hope you will check it out.

Please share your thoughts with us on this … I would love to hear how  YOU handle shopping and selling with so many choices!  Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

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I have promised to look at my goals for 2009 and share them with you.  You can see my assessment of last year’s goals on Assessing My Goals for 2008.  As expected, many of my assessments of how I did go right into what I want to do this year. You will note that several categories of what I have been doing have been dropped.

Between Worlds II, Digital © Diane Clancy

Local Art Networking

• Continue on the board of Fostering the Arts to build the creative economy
• Artists of Franklin County – focus on supporting new leadership
• AWE Project (Artists Window Exhibit) for Spring and once or twice more.  We are expanding the artist and store base, and I am focusing on sharing responsibility and empowering others to step up.
• Maintain the art sales I have locally and be open to new ones
• Much of my focus this year will be in streamlining this time

Online Sales

• Expanding my offerings in the (many) various stores where I offer my work.  Continuing to offer more images on added merchandise.
• Maintaining these shops
• Continuing to tweak my presentation
• Consolidate rather than continue to expand (mostly)
• Increase sales

Networking

• Continue my leadership roles in the art networking I do
• Continue to empower people to take over more responsibility
• Continue to develop as an artist
• Figure out how to leverage all the networking I have done – and the building of trust and knowing me – into more sales

Licensing

• Assess whether I want to pursue licensing and decide whether offering my paintings on merchandise fulfills my purpose of having my art widely available
• Seriously assess whether my work would be licensable by companies

Graphic Design & Web Design Clients

• Continue with clients as they come along

Rework My Website and Blog

• Rework the blog to make the sidebar shorter and put the info onto pages instead
• Add galleries of new work to my website (particularly bubblescapes as has been requested)
• Continue to add technology – in moderation

Create Lots of Art

• Continue to play and create
• Get back into the studio to work with traditional mediums
• Stay in my creative channel
• Go to another level

Health, Harmony & Well-Being

• Move my life forward
• Gently continue to move my life into total harmony
• Live with joy, excitement and love
• Simplify and clarify
• Learn to make decisions more efficiently

Thank you for being in this journey with me in my life as an artist.  It helps me stay focused to know that I am sharing this path with others … both artists and fans.  I would love to hear your thoughts … both about my life and yours … and the world.  Thank you for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Today was Remicade (at the hospital) and it was one of the rougher ones – so I am going to take it easy the rest of the day.  But I have a question for you … I have gotten some good feedback about a few new images … and I would love to hear what you think. What do you see in this picture and what would you suggest as a title?  I always feel the title is one way to guide a viewer at looking at an image … but today I would like to hear from YOU!! Thank you so much!

Oasis of Awakening, Digital © Diane Clancy

Oasis of Awakening is the new title – thank you for all your help! Love and blessings to all life! Thanks for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

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