Purrs and Whiskers Auction

The auction was yesterday. I went, and I could feel my heart beating in my shoes when it was time for my art to be auctioned off. The cat's eye study that I did was in the silent auction and had the most bids :) The same woman who bought that, bid the hell out of everyone and took my lion's paws home, too! I have my first collector!! Yay!!!!! She actually stalked the art while it was on display this week. I marketed the heck out of it across local Facebook groups so people knew I was donating pieces to an auction. I got to meet her afterwards and talk to her about the pieces, and found out that all that pushing online paid off. I honestly wasn't sure it would, because I have promoted things on Facebook before and they fell flat. I was hoping people would feel differently about a charity auction, and I was right. I wasn't sure anyone would be interested in my work when I got to the auction. Apart from my pieces, the rest of it was really bright, graphic, impressionist; some of it was…