Cutting Back

At some point...in the coming days/weeks...

I will be cutting my blog posts back to...

every 'other' day.

While I do schedule a lot of my posts....

I don't always have a lot to 

'talk' about...

I guess that comes from my limited access

to things in the 'outside' world.

Since I've 'made up my mind' that I want to

make some "serious" efforts towards art licensing and obtaining an agent...

I've got to grab that time from other sources...

one being my blogs.

We'll see how that works out for me...

On another note...

tomorrow's 'Wordless Wednesday' will also

be the last of those...

at least for a while.

I am featuring one piece by each of the 

'original' family group of artists that

started out on eBay in 2004/05.

My little 'list' books are coming in Handy!

With the kids coming over every day...starting Monday...

I know that I'm not going to get a lot of painting done.

(Although Jaime and I are kind of 'discussing' something that we might try

to work on...if at all possible, during that time.)

So...my little list books are really coming in handy...

as I make my lists of what I need to get done during this time.

I'm working on the Zazzle sites...all computer work...

and I'm designing all new lines...for Zazzle...

and I will be replacing a lot of the photos on my new website

with the collections...as they are finished.

The lists really do help me keep all my ducks in a row:)

Licensing and Zazzle Sites

I have a limited amount of space in which to store

original art...

even the art covers are beginning to

take up space in the little container I am using

to store it in.

So...with that in mind...and needing to 'gear' up for fall...

I've begun to slow up a bit in creating new pieces.

I'm still creating..mind you...just not as much as I have been

the past few weeks.

Instead...I've begun to divide my time between my Shop..

Promoting my art and the first stages of

art licensing.

I've decide to really clean out my Zazzle shops.

I started each of them without a lot of knowledge about art licensing...

only to discover that a Zazzle shop is,

for all intents and purposes...

a form of licensing.

So...over the coming weeks...my shops will end up looking pretty

sparse as I create new product lines...and looks...for each one of my shops.

I think it will be very helpful as I search for an agent to represent

my art.

My Fine Art America Site

I have 'updated' my 

Fine Art America site

to make...

stretched canvas prints...

large framed prints...

and even Greeting Cards...

of my art

available for sale.

For several years I have searched for

companies that would do this for me,

so that I could offer them in my Etsy Shop

but the price was just too prohibitive.

It's also difficult for me to know which prints

would make the best greeting cards...

and most companies require a minimum order

per design...

so..

Fine Art America does all this for me.

I do have some similar items available in my

Zazzle shop

but what really 'sold' me on 

Fine Art America was the canvas prints 

and

participation in the

ABC/ Disney licensing program.

So...I don't have a lot of items on my

Fine Art America site...yet...

but I will be adding new pieces throughout the coming

days..weeks and months.

I'll have a lot of my Rustic Goth pieces listed..

so that they can be available in ways that I am unable to offer

in my Etsy Shop.

Taking A Long Week-End

I don't know what I'm going to do

this week-end...other than that the kids will be

over on Sunday...

but I know that I am taking a long week-end.

My shipping is 100% caught up.

I've got new canvas on it's way.

The gal who owned the local gallery where we

showed our paintings locally, is the person who

commissioned the painting I'm still working on...

it would have been done yesterday...but

she notified me that she was going out

of town till next week...so I decided

to wait to finish it.

Other than that, I don't really have a lot going

on at the moment...

well I do..but nothing that is overly pressing.

I'm thinking it might be a good time

to start working on some designs for

licensing.

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!

Art Licensing

I've been working so hard...

I've got just a few things to finish on my last

commissioned painting..

I am 'shooting' for the end of the week to have

it completely done.

Since it is an oil painting, it will probably be another two weeks before I can

mail it...I'm hoping it doesn't rain too much so it will dry quickly.

When I'm not working on the commissioned piece,

I have been drawing out some very NEW character pieces...

I'm hoping to have them listed in the shop

by the week-end.

And, I'm 'studying' up on everything I can find..

at no cost..

about art licensing.

I've plans to license some of my

Rustic Goth art,

beginning with my 'Melancholy Girls'.