Yes, my art helps clients win actual prizes! So a bit of a challenge occurred for me recently when I learned that the art I had designed for a grants-funding presentation won a considerable cash prize for my client! I wanted to post this as a brag but my client had of course purchased the artwork and therefor owned the rights! Happily, when I contacted them my client gave me a green light to use a few pieces as a blog masthead. Funding: Finding funds to enlarge her business coaching work was the theme of her presentation. It seemed like a good idea! I wanted her to win to grow her business and reach more people, but the timeline she gave me was a matter of almost hours. I am fast. But this was the tightest deadline I had ever agreed to! How was I going to get so many images done and into her email in-box? Could I do it? I decided to jump in and help, and created a collection of 17 speedy cartoon-style graphics, watercolouring them truly minutes before Ramona had to step in front of a formal group of business people who wanted to hear her pitch! I scanned them as they dried one at a time, leaving as much time as I could to check if she was happy and needed revisions. Fortunately, she liked them all! She transferred them to her presentation software minutes before her speech. Even though I was not there to attend the presentation, I was incredibly nervous. The events were unfolding in another city. Had she received every one of the 17? Did they match the themes? The presentation went off without a hitch, and a few days later the assessors granted her prize money for expansion. So that’s the hair-raising tale! I am pleased that these images were used in a presentation to a grants-funding agency and actually won a cash prize! Well-deserved for Ramona, and I hope she is able to continue her work as a talented job coach with a super great heart!
