Elven Grove: Love, Paint & Dance

My very first art show opening came and went and even better than what, in my worried mind, I had imagined. It began a bit slow when I got there right at 6pm, I'm a very timely person, there was no one but the wonderful man who served the ice cream. I chatted with him for a bit and decided to go get coffee. Once I was back I proceeded to drink my coffee and text my friends practically begging them to come and check out my show. I was beginning to imagine various sad scenarios of me sitting by myself the entire evening, no one paying any mind to me or my work, then the world would explode... Luckily most of my over the top imaginings rarely come true.

I was there, waiting, for maybe 1/2 an hour when my first very lovely friend Heather came strutting her cute booty through the door. She is also the muse of one of my paintings. After that it worked out to be a steady flow of friend after friend, it was almost like they were planned in shifts. Then my two lucky charms walked in, Corinne and a friend of hers visiting from New York. They got ice cream, we chatted about my work, Hipline, the ladies of Hipline in my paintings... Then two men walked in looking closely at my work, I spoke up to let them know I was the artist, they seemed happy by this and to talk with me about my work. They then left.

About 2 minutes later I see one of the men come back in and he says to me "I'd like to buy one of your paintings." I was very shocked and excited to say the least. My first sale, the first night of my art show and to a man that I didn't know previously or call friend or family! "Samar" was my first sold painting and it was even better that two lovely ladies were there to enjoy the excitement with me. This made my night, and even better, Jesse the ice cream man, told me that it's not often an artist makes a sale the first night! Best art show opening EVER! So far...