I am having a showing at a coffee house this month.  It is hard to get started as an artist. You really put yourself out there for people to evaluate your work and of course it effects you value.  Right now I am a bit nervous but I love my art, it’s a little different. But there is a lot of work to do before you show, and you really have to push yourself to get things done.  It’s so left brain orientation, and I am so right brain, lets just have fun painting.