Marketing your artwork (and hopefully living from it)

Hi guys,

Earlier back I made a thread about affiliate marketing, and was ready to get started with all the advice I'd kindly got from all of you, when I was hit by sudden doubt...

To tell you the short story about myself, I am an artist, the kind that draws pictures, and sculpts, and makes puppets, pretty much all day long. I was a former stonecarver for many many years in a company, before being recently laid-off for economical reasons.

Now the big doubt hit I got, was that I would mainly be trying to affiliatemarket other people's products, when I was already making my own products at home every day, but just didn't have a plan on having an audience for them.

The fact of the matter is, whenever I do show my work to people, all I ever seem to get are positive responses from it.

So Im thinking, if I took this on and applied all the online marketing tools and methods I learned about so far, with blogs, tutorials, social networks, email lists ... and concentrated on my own art products, and providing I did well with it, wouldn't I be able to live from it entirely ?

Has anyone with roughly the same background as I ever came here and had a success story to tell ? I would gladly like to hear about it as it would put me one step closer to confidence in that it will work, and to tell you the truth, all I would be looking for in sales would be no more than 2000 bucks a month... which to some people here, is most likely just peanuts