Rhiannon Smith is creating
Paintings and timelapse videos
I want to improve the world with happy art
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Milestone Goals
Get My Art Out There In a Big Way
My biggest goal in life right now is to support my family with my art sales by May 15, 2015. We are on governemt assistance, living in the projects and I hate every minute of it. In order to make a full time living with my art, I have to get my artwork seen by as many people as I possibly can, and this is where my main focus will be and where your support will help.
About
My name is Rhiannon and I've been a visual artist since 2002.
I got married young and had three children in my twenties. I made art whenever I could, but I had my hands pretty full with my job as a stay at home mom.
After my third child was born, my husband started drinking very heavily and became abusive toward me. I left with my children while he was at work and for five months we lived in a shelter.
In the shelter I had a small watercolor set and a 9X12" pad and I painted every single day. I found an apartment in May of 2011. Even though it was project based housing, I was so happy that my children and I were no longer homeless.
I started pouring all of my time and energy into painting, and to this day my entire day, every day is spent painting and trying to market my art. To this day, I work extremely hard not only on my art, but on improving as an artist, getting my art into the world and of course taking care of my family (which now includes my fiance and his son).
We all live in a nicer apartment now, but we are still on government assistance, and I hate that feeling. I don't want to be a taker anymore, it feels like I'm being a drain on society.
I am making more money with my art each year, but not enough to support my family. I will make a full time living with my art, I'm determined.
I got married young and had three children in my twenties. I made art whenever I could, but I had my hands pretty full with my job as a stay at home mom.
After my third child was born, my husband started drinking very heavily and became abusive toward me. I left with my children while he was at work and for five months we lived in a shelter.
In the shelter I had a small watercolor set and a 9X12" pad and I painted every single day. I found an apartment in May of 2011. Even though it was project based housing, I was so happy that my children and I were no longer homeless.
I started pouring all of my time and energy into painting, and to this day my entire day, every day is spent painting and trying to market my art. To this day, I work extremely hard not only on my art, but on improving as an artist, getting my art into the world and of course taking care of my family (which now includes my fiance and his son).
We all live in a nicer apartment now, but we are still on government assistance, and I hate that feeling. I don't want to be a taker anymore, it feels like I'm being a drain on society.
I am making more money with my art each year, but not enough to support my family. I will make a full time living with my art, I'm determined.
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I fled an abusive marriage with three children. I was a stay at home mom for the ten years I was married, so, for a while, we were homeless. We have an apartment now, but we are still on government assistance, and I HATE it.
I intend to get my family off of assistance completely, and fully support us (keep us well fed, clothed and happy) with my art sales by May 15, 2015.
I paint every single day. Motivation is not my problem, exposure is. I need money in order to spread the word about my art.
In return for making a pledge, I will not only make my daily videos for you to see my paintings in process, but I will also give to each of my supporters, a high resolution digital file of each of my paintings. This will enable you to make prints of my paintings and use them for anything you like, as long as you give me credit for the original - remember my goal is to spread the word and make art sales!
The world will be a better place with my art in it, help me to get it out there.
I intend to get my family off of assistance completely, and fully support us (keep us well fed, clothed and happy) with my art sales by May 15, 2015.
I paint every single day. Motivation is not my problem, exposure is. I need money in order to spread the word about my art.
In return for making a pledge, I will not only make my daily videos for you to see my paintings in process, but I will also give to each of my supporters, a high resolution digital file of each of my paintings. This will enable you to make prints of my paintings and use them for anything you like, as long as you give me credit for the original - remember my goal is to spread the word and make art sales!
The world will be a better place with my art in it, help me to get it out there.