Happy One Year Birthday To Red Dust Art
A Big Thank You To Everyone Who Has Upvoted Me!
My Husband And I Are Retired And On A Fixed Income
I came Steemit with just raw talent, I am not a professional artist and I have a stubborn inquisitive nature. All the SP I've earned has been through the community and my posts. I am not an investor and will never become a whale and I am okay with that. I also enjoy learning and putting what I learn to good use. In fact I don't know what I enjoy more, finishing an art piece or learning something new and putting that knowledge to work.
I am A Dolphin
I am here on Steemit to improve my art skills. I am using peer pressure to give me the incentive to create, set deadlines, and finish my project. I can happily say that I have improved my drawing and painting skills. Steemit taught me about crypto-currencies and I have used these skills successfully. I have had to learn coding skills for presenting my art and improve my grammar, which I still struggle with. I do not enjoy writing, I am learning how to enjoy writing thanks to Steemit.
My husband told me about Steemit when the platform went online and I could make some money posting my art instead of posting art on Facebook or other platforms that make billions of dollars off of our content and not sharing their profits with their content creators. I forgot about it for a couple months until he reminded me. I registered and with the money given to me by Steemit I have Potentially earned $11,486.88 at this time. I've seen SP go from .10 cents to $2.00 with all sorts of ups and downs along the way regarding my account worth. At one time my account was worth almost $30,000. I can't get all twisted about the ups and downs of crypto-currency because that is the nature of digital money and getting upset or excited gets in my way of creating.
Trading Cryptocurrency Is Fun
I've traded several thousand dollars of SBD and SP to diversify my crypto-currency portfolio and at this time I have potentially earned several thousand dollars. I have spent around $2000.00 on art supplies (including a new MacBook Pro), presents for birthdays, health supplements, and household appliances (a new water purifier) I wanted but didn't really need but now I could afford.
I have been on social internet platforms since 1997, haveing helped moderate a Buddhist chatboard for a couple years, so I understand social networking and the nature of digital relationships. I have met some awesome people from all over the world through networking with Facebook for Buddhist teachers and programs. I am pretty good at networking when that's all I have to do! But Steemit for me is about creating artwork first, developing a skill-sets is second, networking is third.
All I Want To Do Is Create Art But That Does Not Sell!
I haven't really made any friends, as in we meet face to face or have cozy chats on Discord or Steem chat here on Steemit because I've been too busy creating art.
When I create full time I am the least social person in the world and I have a short attention span for drama. Here on Steemit there are fortunes to be made and when ever this happens there is also lots of drama. I cannot create around drama. So forgive me for not being friendly when you have reached out to me to form a support network. I am working on this issue but it's an uphill battle. I will be visiting Discord Minnow Suite today to start working on my social skills and helping out minnows. I am a very friendly Dolphin most of the time and not stuck-up, I'm just a focused artist!
Hope your week is productive Steemians!
Some Of My Favorite Art Pieces I've Created On Steemit
A link to My Blog
Mr. Wednesday is my favourite one.
@alktoni, he was my favorite too, not only the painting but the research about Odin, which I am still researching Northern European pre Christian religions....
That is a interesting topics for research, my brother is student and is finishing archaeology. He showed my an article of female viking warriors, he was really excited about it.
@reddust,
First I wish you "Happy 1st year Birthday"! I am a lucky guy, that's why I have decided to following you on steemit platform! And I missed "Looper The Frog And Turbo The Snail". Coz I was not here when you draw it!
Amazing work you are doing and thank you very much for sharing with us! A long way to go, so wish a bright future for you!
Cheers~
I wish we had a better way to organize our blog so we don't have to go through a long-long stream of posts....
Thank you @theguruasia, I've really enjoyed our relationship!
@reddust,
Actually that's correct! Now I am following a limited set of people only. In that way I am trying to manage the blog! Never missed your post so far and will be too!
Give a full concern on your artwork! Those are truly amazing!
Cheers~
Happy Steemit Birthday @reddust!!!
It has been such a pleasure to get to enjoy all of your creations, and I am so glad that your experience has been such a positive one!
Also, I totally understand the avoidance of drama thing, I tend to spend whatever positive, creative energy that I possess on content creation, but I am trying a little harder to be a bit more social and encouraging. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter!😊
Oh Good, I am not the only one that struggles with the social aspect of this platform, I love your work to @generikat. On my list of things to do is find a little bot to help me keep track of post from my favorite Steemians, and you are one of them!
Awe shucks! Thank you, that love of work sentiment is most definitely reciprocated!
If you do find a little bot of post-tracking awesomeness, I would love to hear about it, for as it stands now I tend to do random marathon upvoting every couple of days on my favorite Steemian's blogs, such as yours, lol!
Please keep your main focus on your own art, cause it's amazing! And 'hey, you never know, maybe in a few years you're a Whale... You've been doing a pretty good job so far ^.^
Thankfully I have the ability to stay focused, I think psychology calls this behavior OCD....hahaha
@droucil, I've really enjoyed you since we met through getting spammed and scammed and trying to figure out how to ignore the friggen bots!
Haha, u should check my recent poems, got 2 of them about those "lovely" guys specifically xD
Some of them can be so creative though =/ It can be hard to tell sometimes whether someone is genuine...
I will do that as soon as meet and greet is done with this post ;-)
You are very modest @reddust . I think you are past the amateur stage. Very fine work you have produced. Nice to share the steemit ocean with you.
I was born with clothes on @manorvillemike, modesty isn't something I try to do, in fact I try to let it go since it isn't a virtue in this world of sales and getting noticed.
¡Happy Birthday!
Thank you @moismcardona.
really you are very much good personel in real life, just i reaveled to read this artical. and you art of work is simly beauty of outstanding, thanks.
Thank you @sheikh27
welcome to you.
You art is so cool. Nice you meet you @reddust
I am so cool....hahahaha <3 thank you @darioulin
A year now woow red, i think we will see as our platform will be growing year with year.
@dim753, I have no clue where Steemit is going in the next year but I do know I am going to work very hard to support the Steemit platform through creating good content and supporting fellow Steemians through helping out minnows. I've really enjoyed our conversations @dim753, you make me laugh, your Mom is really lucky.
Thanks a lot reddust, your words makes me feel blush. Thanks again for all the ideas and moments here.
All superb pieces of art :)
Thank you @jameshsmitharts!