A Day in the Life: Spoonflower
How cool is this? You can create images and have them printed on fabric using Spoonflower! I uploaded images of two of my camellia paintings, sized for 18-inch pillows. They offer several different fabrics including a linen-cotton canvas that sounds like it will be good for pillows. Eventually you'll be able to order my designs as well, but not until I receive my proofs and approve them. In the meantime, you can see the designs that I uploaded here. I'll let you know when they're available for purchase.
Spoonflower has lots of other interesting fabrics available from other designers on their Marketplace. What fun!
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Art Calendar Excerpt
I'm going to be in the April issue of Art Calendar magazine! Renee Phillips, the author, kindly put an excerpt from the article on her blog. It's about donating artwork to charities, and my experiences with ARTconnectsLA.
A Day in the Life: Packaged
The Valentine cards are mostly packaged and ready to go. I'm using Clear Bag plastic envelopes to protect them, but I'd really like to find a more eco-friendly alternative. Any ideas?Labels: day-in-life
A Day in the Life: Packaging
It's all about packaging today! Making the cards is one thing, but then there's printing and cutting the labels and inserts, folding the inserts and the cards, putting everything into clear packages, and sealing the packages. They look really nice when they're done. Too bad I don't have any finished ones to show you yet!
In the meantime, you can purchase the cards from my Etsy shop. They're being featured at the New York International Gift Fair this weekend.Labels: day-in-life
Valentine's Day Cards
Tell your loved ones that you care by giving an original limited edition Valentine's Day card that is also a frameable work of art! I have three different splatter paint designs available, each in an edition of 50 cards. They are signed on the front, and dated and numbered on the back. Each card is unique and handmade. No two cards are alike. Get 'em while they last!Labels: cards
A Day in the Life: The Shed
I'm a prolific artist, and I create more work than I could ever dream of selling! Therefore I have a storage problem, but I'm not the only one with this problem. Most artists create more work than they sell.
I considered renting storage space, but it's expensive, and I didn't want to have to haul artwork back and forth to a storage space. So I bought a weatherproof shed, and it has worked out great. Except that whatever I need is inevitably in the back of the shed, and it's a pain to get to it.
That's what I was doing today. I had to pull out artwork for an ARTconnectsLA presentation at Children's Bureau, which meant that a lot of work in front had to come out of the shed. Ugh!
That's why I call my Etsy shop "Empty Shed," because my goal is to sell everything and have an empty shed!
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A Day in the Life: It's in the Mail
I'm working on a mailing to art consultants and curators. I've been developing my mailing list for years, and I do a mailing three times a year, to update them on my work. A good place to start in developing your own mailing list is Caroll Michel's art consultant and curator mailing lists. The annotated art consultant list is particularly helpful in determining which art consultants might be interested in your work.
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A Day in the Life: It's in the Cards
I had a brilliant idea last night to create some limited edition splatter paint Valentine's Day cards. I wish these ideas would come to me sooner, and not at the last minute! So today I was busy making cards. The weather has been damp and rainy, and it looks like it's going to take a while for them to dry. Hopefully they'll be ready before Valentine's Day.
My favorite card blanks are the Fabriano Medioevalis cards. They're an elegant off-white Italian watercolor paper with a beautiful deckle edge. Definitely worth the price.
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January Newsletter
I just sent out my January newsletter. I've been doing the newsletter for a year now, and I'm having fun with it! Fortunately I've been busy, which gives me a lot to write about. And it looks like this year will be even more busy.
Subscribe to the newsletter and receive it monthly in e-mail!Labels: newsletter
