Three Thousand Hearts...my Thank you!!

Wednesday I 'hit' 3,000

hearts in my

Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

So...as a 'thank you'
50% 

Store Wide SALE

through the week-end.

 

Everything in the 

Shop has been reduced

by 50%.

A Fun New Piece

A short post today...I just wanted to

share

a 'fun' new piece now in

my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

Wordless Wednesday 4

Shop Wide SALE

I'm having a 'shop wide SALE'...

everything in the shop

has been marked down 

10% to 50%.

I had a "dismal" March...

not sure what happened on Etsy...

but many people's shops just kind of

'disappeared'

on Google.

With that...and a number of other 'issues...

it ended up being one of my

worst months EVER!

I don't normally talk about how bad..

or good..

my shop is doing, 

but since I've had so many sales

lately...I felt the 'need' to explain.

Since this is how I make most of the money

I need to live on...another month like

March and I'm not sure I'd be able to

'hang on'.

The worst part...every week one goes without

income puts them behind, at least 2 weeks

on their bills...

because..you've lost a week of income..but not of bills..

now anything you make has to go for 2 weeks of bills...

so..if you go a month...well..

.it's put you 2 months..or more

behind.

So...if I seem to be having a lot of Sales...now

you know why.

Limited Edition Large Prints

After much experimentation,

finding a paper that I liked but, that didn't cost way more than

I could afford to charge for my prints,

I'm now able to

offer a few 'select' pieces

as 

Limited Edition Large Prints.

They are printed at an 11" x 14" image

on 13" x 19" premium cotton archival art paper.

I'm pretty excited about being able to do

the larger size prints and decided to start

with editions limited to 50.

I sign, date and number the prints, just below the image

in the right corner.

Mercy-Inspired by Rustic Goth's little goth girl

I was very flattered when my daughter

sent me a link to this Treasury.

It was inspired by my little Goth Girl...Mercy.

A take on Snow White...

This Story is by The Brothers Grimm
Translated by D. L. Ashliman

Once upon a time, as a queen sits sewing at her window, she pricks her finger on her needle and three drops of blood fall on the snow that had fallen on her ebony window frame. As she looks at the blood on the snow......

This is part of a "Treasury Tales Tuesday" blog post by Best Art Studios.

I thought this was such a clever idea, that I decided to give it a 'plug' by directing my readers

to the rest of the blog post....here.

I don't get sick very often...

I've had the good fortune of not getting sick too often..

even when the flu attacks everyone else in the

family...

it seems to skip right over me.

So..when I do get sick...I'm not sure

what to do with myself.

I've been 'under the weather' for

a couple of days...not sure why..

and I have soooo much that I need to do right now.
I just didn't have the energy to do it.

Instead...I got caught up on my

blog reading,

that was fun...

and I created a couple of new digital pieces..
watched some TV and

rested.

Hopefully I can get everything back on schedule

over the week-end.

Wordless Wednesday - 3

New Pieces - New Shop

I recently decided that it might be a good idea to have more than

one online shop..

and opened a new Rustic Goth shop on Zibbet.

Well, I didn't want to just have the same things in multiple

shops...so what I am doing is...

creating new items exclusive to each shop.

This is a 'Gothik Virtures' art bookmark

of  'Mercy'

and it is only available in my

Rustic Goth Zibbet Shop.

Also Exclusive to this Zibbet Shop

are my bookmarks,

'Chastity' and 'Temperance'.

I really LOVE these new pieces and will be doing

a whole series of

'Gothik Virtues'

prints and bookmarks.

Whimsical Gothiks

Last week I created some new little

'whimsical gothiks'

Melanthe and Mister Mistoffelees
painted on a small wood panel
and
Merula's Raven
painted on a small piece of watecolor paper.

I think they're really cute...though a bit
though a bit different than
my other 'gothik' pieces.

But then...I guess that's what I'm all about.

On another note...
I was quite disappointed with my week
in the Handmade Market.

I like the site a lot, but I always had
trouble with the site 'loading'...a lot of times it
never would load for me..
so, I'll have to wait until the site is a little
more 'user friendly' to get another stall.

Rustic Goth 'news'

I had a 'stall' at the

Handmade Market all week...

I decided to 'give it a go' and see what happened..

I'll have to check stats to see how

it worked out.

It's a fun little site but a little time consuming

to set up.

My shops at

Zibbet

and 

1000 Markets

have some exclusive items,

unique to each shop

and I am working on new pieces

for each of my shops.

 New pieces also added to

my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

I took on a new

custom painting request..

I'm working hard to get it done as it

needs to get to the Netherlands by May 1st.

Jaime is the 'featured Zibbeter' this week..

she gave a wonderful interview.

Now I'm taking some

time away from the computer...so I can get

everything done and also get several

lines ready to present for licensing.

A little break...

I'm taking a bit of a 

'computer break'...

having some problems again

so it seems like a good time to see if my online shops

can 'tend' themselves

for a bit.

I really need to take a break from all of the

online work that consumes so much of each day

and just see how many new pieces I can create.

I have so many ideas that keep getting put on the back burner..

I want to spend some time and see if I can

do something with them.

Wordless Wednesday 2 - FairyTales

A Melancholy Dwelling

Jaime Best has a shop on Zibbet

'A Melancholy Dwelling'

I really love Jaime's art...it is so

vibrant and beautiful...

especially in person.

Forget that I am somewhat prejudiced...of course I am..

but I am being completely unbiased when I

brag on this girl's talent...

her style really is uniquely her own.

I'm giving her a bit of a 'plug'...

she's going to be the Featured Seller on Zibbet

this week...

and I'm hoping she gets a lot of 'love' from my friends and readers.

Her interview speaks volumes about the kind of person she is.

Here's a link to her blog..

and to a really cool website she's put together

for her (and her husband's)

BestArtStudios2 site.

A Couple Digital Collage Art Prints

I decided to do something a little different.

I found some old diary pages in the Public Domain

and 'collaged' the little gal from my

Butterfly Blues piece

into a brand new piece entitled,

"She Hearts Butterflies and Blackbirds"

the other piece is entitled

"Her Deepest Thoughts"

They were rather fun to put together...though I do

admit I'm not very experienced at

collage...

I think I'd like to experiment a bit more with it.

Recent News....

I was recently featured in 

Etsy's Dark Side Street Team's

Art Exhibition.

There are some 'wonderfully creepy'

pieces featured...

I did an interview with 

Tabz at Gothic Toggs on Zazzle

which will run in her blog..

though I don't actually know when at this time...

I'll post a link when it is published.

I've put some new stuff in my
Rustic Goth Zibbet Shop
that are exclusive to that shop,
I'll be adding more exclusive pieces in the coming
days and weeks.

I've got some Rustic Goth designs
ready for licensing...
but I need about a dozen designs
before I begin to submit them..
main thing is...I've begun!

Newest Art.

Here are a couple of my newest illustrations.

They are the first of a new series I am calling...

"Gothiks"

I introduce you to...

Mercy and Chastity.

Wordless Wednesday - 1

Happy Easter!

c.2005 Patrick E Zatloukal

"Tree of Life-This is my Blood"

Getting All Caught Up

I think I've said before that I'm a little

"OCD"

about a number of things...and shipping is high on my list

of things that I 'obsess' about.

I had to go to weekly shipping....because I found, especially if I've

had a really good week...

that I could get caught up in shipping and let other things...

like creating new pieces..

fall by the way side.

So...I'm okay with weekly shipping...UNTIL...I have what happened

this past week...

We ran out of ink for the prints...we really do go through that stuff...and it's

definitely not cheap...

but..on occasion our local supply is out of one or more of the colors we need...

YIKES!!

Anyway...we are finally back on track...I have

all but two orders SHIPPED.

The two orders that are left will go out on

Monday or Tuesday..

(I'm making an 'exception'..because of the ink situation..

and shipping twice this next week.)