Wednesday, May 8, 2013
So many little paintings...
I keep making these little doodle paintings. I love them. I made some for the semi annual craft sale that benefits the Craft Studio. I sold out of sock monkey paintings immediately. They were also only $3 each. I made a couple more tonight... And yes, I'll be raising the price slightly.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Mud Pie Photography
One more iron in the fire... I just started photographing people more... Potentially for pay. Right now I'm happy to just get things going and start photographing people again.
Mud Pie Photography. I want to capture people as they are in their real environments. I don't want to shoot in a studio with weird props... Like the carpet covered block that always seems to be at the Sears photo place. What's more real than a mud pie? Not much. If I photograph kids I want them to look like themselves... In their favorite outfit, not the one that matches everyone else's.
I hope there's an audience for this kind of thing. I guess we'll see. I've started small with a Facebook page and an offer to many of my friends to photograph them for free and if they like what they see, they can recommend me to their friends and so on.
Let's avoid this kind of set up... Shall we? That carpet wall is repulsive.
Mud Pie Photography. I want to capture people as they are in their real environments. I don't want to shoot in a studio with weird props... Like the carpet covered block that always seems to be at the Sears photo place. What's more real than a mud pie? Not much. If I photograph kids I want them to look like themselves... In their favorite outfit, not the one that matches everyone else's.
I hope there's an audience for this kind of thing. I guess we'll see. I've started small with a Facebook page and an offer to many of my friends to photograph them for free and if they like what they see, they can recommend me to their friends and so on.
Let's avoid this kind of set up... Shall we? That carpet wall is repulsive.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Little paintings
I'm working on leetle tiny paintings for a craft sale. I love them. I want to remake some of them and sell them in my soon to be etsy shop. It's a goal! But a goal without a firm date attached to it.
I feel like my summer project list keeps getting longer. And although summer is slower, is it really that much slower? There's less traffic here when the students are gone for the summer and you don't have to wait for a table at a restaurant. But those are some if the ways the summer is faster- I get to work on time and we don't lose time at restaurants. We don't have as many customers... So that's where things feel slow.....
But trying to get an etsy shop together with product in it to sell?! That seems like a year long plan... Or a three year plan.
So, if these leetle tiny paintings sell maybe I'll have time to make more?! And then hang onto them to sell when I get my shop together?
Fingers crossed.
I feel like my summer project list keeps getting longer. And although summer is slower, is it really that much slower? There's less traffic here when the students are gone for the summer and you don't have to wait for a table at a restaurant. But those are some if the ways the summer is faster- I get to work on time and we don't lose time at restaurants. We don't have as many customers... So that's where things feel slow.....
But trying to get an etsy shop together with product in it to sell?! That seems like a year long plan... Or a three year plan.
So, if these leetle tiny paintings sell maybe I'll have time to make more?! And then hang onto them to sell when I get my shop together?
Fingers crossed.
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