Selling Art Online

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 ;)

My plan was to test sites for at least three months per site. See what each site can deliver in traffic and sales.  It has been a profitable experience selling my small work, but not without frustrations and learning much about different facets of the art business.

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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October 14, 2014 - The Wellness Center Art Gallery

Blue Bug, 16"x20" oil on canvas

Two of Gladys' paintings were accepted for The Wellness Center Art Gallery Exhibit. The paintings "Blue Bug" and "Art Gallery" will be on exhibit until January 2015.  Reception scheduled for Nov 14, 2014. The location is 115 Main Street, Vista, CA 92084.



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What a Month!

Cool Day, 8"x10" oil on canvas


Dear Friends,

What a month! A good month that is. At the beginning of the month I sent an intention to sell all of my small abstract painting that I had.  When you paint as much as I do, one kind of runs out of space to put all the created art. 

I was blessed with a new art collector that bought 19 of my small abstract paintings plus a small commission work. There were a few more sales, for a total of 31 sales this month. It's kind of fun to see what my next intention will be for next month ;)  

Two of my paintings were juried into La Bodega Gallery One Day Exhibit, which will be this Sept 27, 2014. My painting LA bus was also juried into the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery Exhibit "Betty Woodaman". October 11, 2014 is the reception, between 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm. Hope to see some of you who are local there.

My work will also be at The Rifford Center in La Jolla until November 29, 2014.  October 18, 2014 the Rifford Center will be having a special fundraiser, so lot's of tables with good stuff to look at, in addition to the artwork.

Something strange has been happening this month. I keep dropping things! It's almost comical to be painting and all of a sudden the brush is on the floor.  It happens with both hands so I have broken a few items this month. I need to run some test, and I'm sure it's nothing serious but a strange feeling to have to adjust to the way I do things to make sure I don't drop anything. I will keep you updated once a few tests are done.

I hope all is well at your end, that you are enjoying looking at art, and taking time to appreciate all the beauty around you.

Love,
Glad

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