Always Take Pictures of Your Work!

I just want to say, to all those artists out there... Take pictures of EVERYTHING YOU DO! And then keep them in a safe, well organized, place. And I mean DIGITALLY. Like if you put them on a CD, put that CD in a SAFE place and don't lose it! Then back up all the photos on an external hard drive. Then back it up AGAIN on one of those online storage places. That way you will ALWAYS have an archive of everything you have done.

I say this because... About a year ago I had spent MONTHS AND MONTHS of my life painting larger than life size paintings of Tyra Banks. They were for my BFA painting program Final Critique. That critique was the straw that broke the camels back and made me leave Indiana University and come to FIDM (BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE BTW). But I was so upset and in a weird place that I didn't care about the paintings. I left them at Indiana and never took pictures of them. There are probably rotting in some dump right now *cries*.

I did take some pictures of my favorite Tyra painting. But my hard drive crashed and I lost it. So now I only have one SHITTY picture of it in the middle stages. So I have ONE picture of ONE of my paintings UNFINISHED... an a bad quality one at that...

I'm so upset...