I am halfway through with my art stories. I will work on adding them to the Affluent Artist site next.

So I did a thing today. I went to a suggested restaurant for breakfast this morning that I normally would not have even considered and I sat down and I sketched. And I’m pretty proud of what I came up with thus far. I was trying to sit amongst affluent people, and sketch and possibly talk about my artwork. I didn’t really talk to anyone. And, I said there starting to embrace my inner strength, imagination, creativity, and self-worth. P.S. I’m planning to take this challenge on, again, in the near future and the breakfast was quite good as well. Thank you, Suresh for the challenge!

This week I challenged myself to create and make a piñata based on my daughter’s birthday theme of Kuromi (Hello Kitty character). I am proud of myself! Below is the character and on the left is my Piñata. I think V will be pleased. Now to decorate a whacking stick. 🤪

AFFLUENT ARTIST! I want you to publicly declare your goals for the week in the comments. This will help us achieve our goals together as a team of individuals. It is the ultimate hack to accountability and will help you progress through the program and further along with building your online art business. This post will serve as a promise to yourself. In next week's post, you will be able to declare you completed your goal and can make your next goal for that week. Here are the instructions: If you achieved your goal from last Monday, I want you to start your post this week with "🚀 I succeeded at…" followed by your goal for this week. It's always important to celebrate the small wins 😊 If this is your first Monday Motivation post, just declare your goal with "I will achieve/complete XYZ by next Monday" Use the S.M.A.R.T goal framework and make sure the object of your goal is entirely under your control, not dependent on others or the environment around you. Let's win together! And let this serve as a reminder that the only way to fail is to give up.

So here is a photo of the cards and the receipt from a request of a business owner baskets are really beautiful and extremely creative for all occasions