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| Coaster made from my artwork |
Dear Friends,
I've been working on selling art on the internet since June. It has been quite an experience learning from posting and selling art in different website venues. I couldn't resist Zazzle.com, where you can buy different items with my artwork (like the coasters below with my artwork). It's a work in progress as it's very time consuming to add products and adjust the design but I think it will do great during the holidays. I'm purchasing a few items here for myself ;)
I'm going to be the featured artist at The Riford Center in La Jolla in April 2015. This has made me ponder many things about my artwork. The type of artwork I want to create for the exhibit, the size and price range, and theme.
In the end I still refuse to confine myself to one type of art style as "art connoisseurs" suggest. I love painting realistic paintings but I enjoy abstract work as well, and will continue to do both. While the idea of pricing artwork needs to be consistent, I will now follow this 80% of the time. Sometimes a piece takes twice, if not more, time to complete than the average. Those pieces I will price above my standard pricing formula. Same when one takes a lot less time than the average. I love my artwork, it's a reflection of who I am and have to follow my heart when it comes to pricing my artwork.
I must face the fact that I will always paint, even when I don't have much room in my home left to store my paintings, but I am now okay with not selling my paintings if it means under pricing them. I will keeping them for my children. Don't get me wrong, I would love to sell them all, but it will be at a fair price.
Any suggestions on a theme for my April exhibit will be appreciated. I'm excited and can't wait to start a fresh new body of work, be it abstract or realistic, or both ;)
My birthday is just around the corner so October is always special to me. May October be good to you too.
Love,
Glad
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