I’m thinking about making my artwork available for purchase. At least some of it. I tried last year or the year before (i can’t remember) on etsy, but I didn’t market myself long enough or put enough effort into it. So here I am, in 2009, the year of me, trying again.

The problem is, I don’t really know if any of my work is… purchase worthy. BLAH!
I intend on turning most, if not all, of my prints into ATC’s/ACEO’s and I will easily be able to trade or sell them for less than $5.00. I’m working on developing my skills at watercolor intaglio so that I can reprint my Planets and Gods series at smaller sizes. I will also continue to work in relief printing as well.

Anything like a drawing or painting will probably be printed through a company as a giclee print as one of the reasons I never became a cartoonist is that I have a hard time drawing the same thing twice. Sculptures are currently out of the question. Not like I have ones that are good enough to buy. hahaha

This is also in part of me wanting to expand my collection of other artists work, which is as of right now, very small. Which is why I’m open for art trades too. I won’t give away my originals, with the exception of a few linocut and silkscreen prints that I have created editions of, but I’m willing to recreate almost anything I’ve already done for anybody who’s interested. Almost everything I’ve done can be recreated in less time, for lower cost and a smaller size if necessary in a slightly different medium.

So… I guess… Since I’m basically trying to promote myself… if there’s anything in my gallery that you like and would like to have a version of, drop me a line and we can coordinate a purchase/trade.

During the democratic convention coverage last night I sat and did a little more with my canvases. I painted a new one black. I think I might implement my jellyfish design on it. I like the idea of black coming through. I put another layer of pink and clear on top of the purpley canvas, darkened the edges of the angelfish, as well as added slight coloring changes to enhance later. And my brown canvas will have a cute sparrow or bluebird on it when I’m done. Wee!!

And thank goodness for GOJO or else I’d have paint stains all over myself! I have a painting of a Puffin upstairs on the wall that I did when I was in 11th grade (I think.) I might get some giclee prints of it made, and some giclee aceo’s as well.. As well as get fine art prints made of my printmaking designs to sell, since original prints haven’t seemed to sell so well.

(I meant to post this last week, but my image uploader on WP wasn’t working. So after some troubleshooting – I had to deactivate one of the plug-ins – I got my media uploader to work correctly.)

The other week I went out and bought a stack of mini canvases to play with my paintstiks on. Michael’s was having a sale so I bought around 6 small, 3-4 med, and a stack of 6 5×7 and 8×10 canvas boards. I then proceeded to paint up two of the little ones with a base background coat. and I did some more work on the angelfish I’m doing. It’s slow-going but you can see the change.

I don’t know what I’m going to paint on the other canvases but we’ll see!

I’ve never been too good at painting, but since I got a bunch of Shiva oil paint sticks a while ago I decided to mess around on some canvases I had lying around. I messed around a bit but since it takes a while for the paints to dry I only ended up with a base coat. haha We’ll see what happens with these.

I’ve been wanted to make more prints lately, but I haven’t managed to bring myself to. Sad isn’t it? How come I always get great big plans but when it comes time to implement them, I can’t do it? Horrible.

Well this time I’ve forced a deadline to be creative onto myself by signing up to participate in Printmakers.info Print Exchange Six. The theme is homage and the the deadline is July 5th. So I’ve given myself a goal. Now to just… come up with an idea!! Hopefully I won’t have a creative block. I’m very excited about this because one of the prints I actually come up with will be put on display [somewhere that i can't remember.] I’ve even added a counter over there –> so I can time myself. Oh, and by the way, I linked myself on Printmakers.info, yay!! Do you make prints? Go there!

On another note, yesterday I scored some pre-stretched cheap-o canvas-paper canvases that my work was gonna throw away. Woo hoo! I’m gonna gesso the crap out of the cheap print on the front and create somethin’ pretty. I scored 3 square ones that and 1 long one. I dont know the exact sizes but they’re pretty good in size. I can’t wait. I’m gonna dig out what sampler paintstiks I have and go to town. Plus I’m gonna order a new set and maybe some extra ones too. This way I can actually oil paint without having to “paint”. I can draw my paintings… (which I’m better at anyway.)

1:48pm
Well I just spent my lunch break drawing out another design for print. It’s a jellyfish and I think it will be about…. 2 or 3 plates. We’ll see. I have to sit and plan the carving just a little better, but here’s a sneakpeek.